Relating to Survivor 50’s returning gamers, it doesn’t matter should you’re from the previous or new period. Followers are being given the facility to create an all-new sport via a number of months of voting that started on Wednesday, February 26, the identical day because the Season 48 premiere.
Jeff Probst introduced this main format upheaval on the Survivor 48 premiere occasion on February 22 in New York Metropolis, and he stopped by the TV Insider studio on February 24 to clarify “Within the Fingers of the Followers” in additional element. He solutions all of our burning questions in regards to the new format within the video interview above, along with opening up about why it “used to actually trouble” him to see Survivor alums go on different actuality TV exhibits like The Traitors.
From February via the beginning of Season 50 filming later this 12 months, followers will be capable of vote for the sport components they need to see (or do away with) within the subsequent returning gamers season. Probst tells us that this was designed as an enormous “thanks” to the present’s loyal followers and their a long time of engagement with the collection, however it’s additionally to degree the enjoying discipline between previous and new-era contestants. Because of followers deciding how the sport will go, nobody is a Survivor knowledgeable anymore. This makes mendacity and manipulation extra key than ever earlier than.
“Right here’s the twist that nobody but is speaking about,” Probst says. “The followers will vote for the type of sport they need. What’s actually going to be difficult is the gamers will know all the probabilities, however not one of the outcomes.” The gamers will find out about a “checklist of choices” that have been left as much as the followers, Probst explains, however they received’t know what choices have been chosen till the present tells them. Probst says that savvy gamers will lie in regards to the outcomes to govern rivals.
Relating to Survivor gamers increasing their actuality TV careers, Probst mentioned on the February 22 occasion that he seems like different exhibits are benefitting off of Survivor‘s arduous work, implying that their casting course of is far more in-depth than their rivals.
“There’s no query our casting course of takes longer than some other present, it’s all 12 months,” Probst insists. “It’s some huge cash, and it’s a really, very, very deep dive.” Each Survivor solid takes 9 months to place collectively, the host reveals. “And that’s why our gamers are so attention-grabbing. We actually get to know you, and after we discover folks we expect are wonderful and enjoyable to observe and wish to see tackle this sport, we put you on Survivor.”
Probst doesn’t need to “knock” different exhibits, however he says that “these different exhibits are produced very otherwise, or perhaps they don’t have the finances for casting that we do.” He considers it a “luxurious” that they get to spend a lot time and assets on casting. That’s why it irked him that different exhibits snatched up his former gamers. However he will get it now. They discovered “compelling” those that any good casting director would need on their exhibits, he explains.
Probst does warn that happening different exhibits may harm an alum’s possibilities of coming again to Survivor. It’s not a punitive factor, however quite may very well be the results of what occurs on that different program. A contestant that was beloved on Survivor may do one thing on one other present that turns followers off. However on the finish of the day, Survivor is an enormous household that all the time desires the very best for his or her contestants, and happening one thing like The Traitors or Deal or No Deal Island would “most likely not” forestall them from coming again.
See extra of this Survivor deep dive within the full video interview, above.
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