Australian Survivor to return in 2017 as Ten hands show an immunity idol
Ten has given its pricey reboot of a local Survivor franchise an immunity idol, announcing the show will return for a second series in 2017.
The network took a massive gamble with the successful American reality show hoping it would be third time lucky for a localised version.
Earlier attempts by both Nine and Seven to give an Australian flavour to the show both failed to last more than a single season.
Ten worked with Endemol Shine and backed the show early on with a big promotional budget and also sinking a hefty amount into production to try and match the quality of the US version.
hOW IS THE FINAL WORKED OUT ??
THE US VERSION HAS A FINAL TWO, BUT SOME THINK ITS A FINAL 3 IN AUSTRALIA ????
WHICH IS IT
Some of the challenges need to change to reflect “Survivor” skills, such as ‘making fire’, jungle orienteering (treasure map), hunting/fishing, paintball battle last man standing, rescue stunts like make a kite, etc. The show also needs to give opportunities for virtues of the Aussie character to shine through, through noble gestures and personal sacrifices (sharing rewards etc). Audiences want to see and admire people of virtue struggle against adversity while maintaing their dignity, rather than snakes lying and cheating their way to $500,000. Just an idea.
Michael, you are kidding yourself. Survivor is completely boring when people all play the way you’ve suggested. Look at Lee & El this season as a prime example. My suggestions for the producers a) Few more Survivor fans instead of people that have never watched the game before b) Not too many twists for the sake of twists c) Final 3 instead of 2 prevents one-sided final votes
I have really enjoyed the series. Mostly because I start yelling at the TV when people are making bad voting decisions. Like last night. What was Flick thinking? I thought she wanted to get final 2?
How about each contestant starts of in the jungle/bush/island on their own with the bare essentails and only meet up challenges to win food and utensils, challanges to win immunity, challanges to pick other contestant for their resources etc and to build up their tribe/resourses/supplies/skills etc. Then we have a game. Need more mental/thinking challanges.
A great show and survivor series should have to look to other place as like Samoa to continue the show in the future.,,The Samoan environment is too tough because of it everyday temperature always +30 degree Celcius. Very hot and great volcanic rocks on the coastal area. There are some places with densely forests with and nice sandy beaches..as well as some great water falls with tough swampy area like Lake Lanotoo in the highland area in Afiamalu in te island of Upolu.,,