Mountaineering made it to primetime in CBS’s newest actuality competitors collection creation, The Summit. The collection, the inaugural season of which premiered within the fall of 2024, featured 16 contestants who had been challenged to climb a mountain within the Southern Alps within the house of two weeks, with obstacles (together with twists introduced in by the “Mountain’s Keeper”) and checkpoints to finish alongside the way in which. It was hosted by New Zealand-based star Manu Bennett and featured a complete money prize of $250,000.
The collection is a Western model of the Australian present of the identical identify, which debuted in 2023 and ran for 2 seasons.
So will The Summit return for a second season this fall on CBS? Right here’s a have a look at what to find out about The Summit Season 2.
Is The Summit renewed for Season 2?
No. CBS canceled the collection in April 2025 after only one season. It was given the kibosh alongside the community’s new authentic comedy collection Poppa’s Home.
Why was The Summit canceled?
Regardless of airing with the almost-evergreen actuality competitors collection Survivor, The Summit didn’t garner anyplace close to the identical viewers. It averaged 2.6 million viewers within the first season.
Plus, critiques for the collection’ first (and, in the end, final) season weren’t optimistic. Vulture‘s Roxana Hadadi criticized the inclusion of on a regular basis folks as an alternative of skilled climbers within the forged; “The Summit is responsible of the precise flattening of a dangerous expertise Krakauer warned in opposition to in Into Skinny Air, a first-person account of the 1996 Mount Everest catastrophe that left quite a few climbers lifeless and others stranded on the mountain in the midst of a devastating storm.” And USA At present‘s Kelly Lawler wrote that Bennett’s internet hosting was “woodenly” executed and referred to as it “an affordable Survivor knockoff on a mountain.”
Who received The Summit Season 1?
Three of the 16 contestants had been capable of full the climb with out withdrawing, getting eradicated, or being medically evacuated: salesman Nick Morgan of Madisonville, Louisiana, Air Power Sergeant Ladeania “Punkin” Jackson of Columbus, Mississippi, and Therron Pittman, a waiter from Los Angeles, California. Every of the contestants earned the $250,000 they carried up for his or her completion of the problem, and the $250,000 that was faraway from the sport — as a consequence of different gamers’ forfeit or evacuations — was voted by the eradicated gamers to be awarded to Nick, who ended up with $500,000 in complete winnings.