"Survivor" (2000)TV series 2000-????

Director:

Mark Burnett

Writers:

Charlie Parsons (format)
Jeff Probst (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Release Date:

31 May 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Reality-TV | Game-Show

Tagline:

39 days... 16 people... ONE... Survivor!

Plot:

A competition/reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The contestants start off divided into two teams that compete against each other, with the losing team forced to vote a member off; when the numbers are reduced to 10 contestants, the teams merge and it's everyone for him- or herself. The lone survivor of this process takes home a million dollars.

Plot Keywords:

Asia | Central America | Competition | Beach | Contest

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 19 wins & 49 nominations

Cast

Jeff Probst

...

Himself - Host (245 episodes, 2000-2008)

Also Known As:

Survivor: Africa (USA) (third season title)
Survivor: All-Stars (USA) (eighth season title)
Survivor: Borneo (USA) (first season title)
Survivor: China (USA) (fifteenth season title)
Survivor: Cook Islands (USA) (thirteenth season title)
Survivor: Fiji (USA) (fourteenth season title)
Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden (USA) (seventeenth season title)
Survivor: Guatemala - The Maya Empire (USA) (eleventh season title)
Survivor: Marquesas (USA) (fourth season title)
Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites (USA) (sixteenth season title)
Survivor: Palau (USA) (tenth season title)
Survivor: Panama - Exile Island (USA) (twelfth season title)
Survivor: Pearl Islands (USA) (seventh season title)
Survivor: Thailand (USA) (fifth season title)
Survivor: The Amazon (USA) (sixth season title)
Survivor: The Australian Outback (USA) (second season title)
Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire (USA) (ninth season title)

Runtime:

60 min | 60 min (13 episodes) | 60 min (16 episodes) | 60 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:G (some episodes) | Australia:PG | Malaysia:U

Company:

Mark Burnett Productions

Trivia:

In all the seasons of Survivor thus far (with the exception of Richard Hatch in the first season), the castaway that has won the car, has never won the million dollars. This has now become the 'car curse' in Survivor.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) (V)

Never enough time

Letting the oldest pick teams is interesting, but to me It gives two people too much power right off. I will be very surprised not to see one of those two in the final 4. As to whether youth is better than experience, I think we have already seen the results there. I was actually hoping for a war of the sexes, I thought that would be . an additional plot point.

I would also like Mr Probst to let us see a little more about how the participants are picked for challenge elements. It seems like they always cut away and come Back. If Ghandia wanted to do that puzzle and froze up, that should tell us a lot about her. If nobody wanted to do that puzzle and she was the only one willing to step up, that would tell us a whole lot about the rest of her team. Staying under the radar is one thing, sacrificing the teams efforts is another. I think it is fair to say that Rob Mariano in the Marquesas series showed us all what killing off your own team for personal power gets you.