When The Traitors returns subsequent yr, followers will see a trio of Survivor alums within the Season 4 forged, which is not any shock given how important the CBS survival collection has been to Alan Cumming’s sport of murrrrder. Whereas followers are doubtless stoked about seeing Rob Cesternino, Natalie Anderson and Yam Yam Arocho, I’m undecided the identical could be mentioned for Survivor host Jeff Probst, who admitted to being “a bit of territorial” together with his forged members.
Survivor — which has already filmed its fiftieth season, regardless of Season 48 simply ending its run on the 2025 TV schedule in Could — has been THE identify in actuality competitors exhibits since 2000, and its good casting is undoubtedly one of many causes. That’s precisely why Jeff Probst will get a bit of bitter when he sees his gamers on different collection, as he defined:
We discover an unimaginable human, they usually’re on an unimaginable season of Survivor, and the subsequent factor you realize, these different exhibits are going, ‘Hey, why don’t you come do our present?’ and I’m like, yeah, after all you’d. That’s an excellent casting philosophy, simply anticipate us. So I do get a bit of territorial, I’m not gonna lie.
I positively see his level. Survivor finds these wonderful individuals like Boston Rob and Cirie Fields, who develop into well-known on the CBS present (out there to stream with a Paramount+ subscription), solely to produce other collection like Huge Brother, The Traitors and The Superb Race swoop in to capitalize on their already-developed actuality TV personalities.
It’s not simply that Jeff Probst is bitter about Survivor’s expertise being poached and desires to be “in control of anyone’s future,” however the host made a degree about the way it impacts Survivor, saying:
Should you checked out it from our viewpoint, we would have a returning participant season in retailer, and we’re like, ‘Oh now you’re gonna go do that present and that present, and it’s not fairly as particular now to see you.’ However I actually am making an attempt to vary that, as a result of I understand the individuals are compelling. No surprise everybody needs them. I imply, they’re actually entertaining, cool individuals. … Clearly it’s not my place to say, ‘Please don’t go do anything.’
There’s positively an argument to be made that, for instance, seeing Parvati Shallow on The Traitors or Deal or No Deal Island would make it much less particular if she have been invited again for a future season of Survivor.
Nevertheless, what Jeff Probst doesn’t appear to be accounting for is how many individuals didn’t watch Survivor earlier than they watched The Traitors however who will now both watch future seasons and even hunt down previous seasons as a result of they appreciated the gamers a lot on different exhibits. It may be a mutually useful scenario, and apparently it’s one thing Jeff Probst is engaged on.
Preserve an eye fixed out for the Survivor Season 49 premiere date this fall on CBS, whereas The Traitors Season 4 will return to Peacock in 2026.