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SPOILER!!
Tonight fans of “Survivor” saw one of the most devious sneaky-snake acts of deception ever perpetrated on national television.
Take up valuable bandwidth with your predictions and reactions!
West Coasters:
8 p.m. Thursday. CBS.
Important reminder: the guy who complains loudest in talkback about reality shows is always the one most frequently caught masturbating in front of “American Gladiators” by his mom.
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“Survivor,” the highest-rated show still broadcasting in standard definition, is making the leap to HD when its 17th season starts shooting this summer.
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If you stuck with the “Survivor: China” reunion show till the end, you know that “Survivor: Micronesia” producers are borrowing again from “The Road Rules/Real World Challenge”: half the contestants are newbies and the other half are vets of prior seasons.
The new Entertainment Weekly reveals who’s coming back. None is a former winner:
FROM SEASON 7 (PEARL ISLANDS):
Jon “Fairplay” Dalton, 33, liar.
FROM SEASON 9 (VANUATU):
Eliza Orlins, 25, hot track star.
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Almost all the usual suspects are back with new episodes, so it’s a good time to check in.
“The Office” is now pulling a better demographic than “Survivor.”
“30 Rock” (thanks in part to Jerry Seinfeld) tied with “Ugly Betty.”
Plus the once-mighty “ER,” now starring “Jake In Progress” vet John Stamos, is tied with “Big Shots” for last place at 10 p.m.?
Last night in adults 18-49, per Nielsen:
8:00/8:30
4.4 Survivor
3.4 30 Rock
3.4 My Name Is Earl
3.4 Ugly Betty
2.3 Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?
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. The first thing Jeff Probst does is usher everybody inside a 16th-century Buddhist temple for a welcoming ceremony. Denise, the middle-aged lunch lady from Massachusetts, is way into it. Courtney, the hot Gwen Stefani-lookin’ waitress from New York, is not.
. As the monks chant, ring bells and bow before giant Buddha, the Christian talk show lady, Leslie, has a freak-out, even though Probst assured her going in that it was not a worship ceremony. I think she thought Probst was trying to trick her into worshiping not-Jesus!
. The contestants are sent off to their respective islands in the clothes they wore to the monastery. This causes one of the women some concern about underwear.
. The tribes don’t start paddling toward their new island homes until ten minutes into the episode.
. The grave digger looks more like a grave digger/male model if you’re asking me.
. This corner of China looks rainy, gloomy, muddy, muggy, buggy and thoroughly unpleasant.
. The complex first immunity/reward challenge involves obstacle courses, puzzles, a locked gate, a drawbridge and two of those long multi-person serpent mascots one so often sees at Chinese parades.
. The new immunity idol looks to me like a kneeling Chinese warlord.
. There is no outcast island (at least in the first episode).
. Though CBS assures us that reward challenges will allow a tribe to “kidnap” players from the opposing tribe, no one is kidnapped this first week.
. Though CBS assures us immunity idols are "hidden in plain sight" at both camps, no one learns this week that any hidden immunity idols exist.
. For the first time in my experience CBS provided a “Survivor” screener that actually revealed the first player voted out! I’m not allowed to say who, even in invisotext, but I can say the loser visibly startled his or her tribesmates (and, candidly, me) with his or her reaction to the bad news.
Fighting Tiger, clad in yellow, are:
DAVE CRUSER, 37
Simi Valley, Calif.
Former Model
JAIME DUGAN, 22
Columbia, S.C. (originally from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
Student
ERIK HUFFMAN, 26
Nashville, Tenn. (originally from Greenville, S.C.)
Musician
PEIH-GEE LAW, 29
Marina Del Rey, Calif. (born in Hong Kong)
Jeweler
SHEREA LLOYD, 26
Atlanta (originally from Pontiac, Mich.)
Elementary Teacher
ASHLEY MASSARO, 28
East Northport, N.Y.
Professional WWE Wrestler
CHICKEN MORRIS, 47
Marion, Va.
Chicken Farmer
FROSTI ZERNOW, 20
Chicago (originally from Traverse City , Mich.)
Parkour Athlete/Student
Flying Dragon, clad in red, are:
JEAN-ROBERT BELLANDE, 36
Las Vegas (originally from Long Island , N.Y. )
Professional Poker Player
JAMES CLEMENT, 30
Lafayette, La.
Grave Digger
TODD HERZOG, 22
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Flight Attendant
AMANDA KIMMEL, 23
Los Angeles (originally from Kalispell, Mont.)
Hiking Guide
DENISE MARTIN, 40
Douglas, Mass. (originally from Revere, Mass.)
School Lunch Lady
LESLIE NEASE, 38
Tega Cay, S.C.
Christian Radio Talk Show Host
AARON REISBERGER, 32
Venice , Calif. (originally from Belmont County, Ohio)
Surfing Instructor
COURTNEY YATES, 26
New York City (originally from Boston)
Waitress
Discover what the contestants look like here.
8 p.m. Thursday. CBS.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here.
This story by Borys Kit at Hollywood Reporter is a must read. Universal picked up this book called LONE SURVIVOR: THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF OPERATION REDWING AND THE LOST HEROES OF SEAL TEAM 10. Bit of a mouthful, ain't it?
Anyway, it was written by a soldier named Marcus Luttrel who was in Afghanistan as part of a SEAL operation to hunt down an al-Qaida leader holed up in a Taliban stronghold. The story is insane... one of those that you can't believe happened in real life... one that you just imagine was made up for the screen.
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About the contestants:
* There are 16.
* They appear to be less racially diverse than those competing in the highly integrated prior two seasons.
* Four of the 16 live in Greater Los Angeles.
* Nine of the 16 are less than 30 years of age.
* 14 of the 16 are less than 39 years of age.
* The youngest, student Frosti Zernow, is 20.
* The oldest, farmer Chicken Morris, is 47.
* According to his CBS bio, Chicken Morris was married 40 years, which means the Virginia native was already married before he reached the age of eight.
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Talkbacker “Tailhook” writes:
The Genius of what Yau-Man did is that with 5 left he's got a 40% shot that either Yau or Earl will win the next immunity challenge. If one of them does.. whoever didn't gets the hidden immunity idol and they're both guaranteed the final 4. Furthermore, if one of them does win immunity, then Boo doesn't have it and he's pretty much assured of going home. Seriously... anyone not rooting for Yau to win it all needs their had examined.
Oh.. and one other thing. Its absolute genius on the part of Yau-man that if he didn't need the truck he could offload it on another Survivor and the subsequent tax bill. Hi Dreamz... you just got home.. the government wants 7-10k in taxes THANKS.
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This is the last week for “Survivor Fiji” and there are still six people on the island:
* Kenward “Boo” Burns, 34, construction worker from Lafayette, La.
* Yau-Man Chan, 54, computer engineer from Martinez, Calif.
* Earl Cole, 35, ad exec from Santa Monica, Calif.
* Cassandra Franklin, 42, civil engineer manager from Los Angeles.
* Andre “Dreamz” Herd, 25, cheerleading coach from Wilmington, N.C.
* Stacy Kimball, 27, Internet producer from Boulder, Colo.
So I guess we’re going to get another “final three” instead of the usual “final two.”
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SURVIVOR 14.1 FAQ
What’s it called?
The first episode of “Survivor Fiji” is titled “Something Cruel Is About To Happen … Real Soon.”
And where is Fiji again?
Right next door to Vanuatu, a little north of the sea between Australia and New Zealand.
What does TV Guide say?
“The 14th edition of the reality series strands 19 castaways on the Fiji Islands to vie for the $1 million first-place prize. Initially, everyone lives together at a camp with plenty of supplies, but on the third day the group is split into two tribes. The team that loses the first immunity challenge must relocate to a different island with little resources. Also, the players learn that a hidden immunity idol is located at each tribal camp. Jeff Probst is the host.”
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19 contestants.
15 are 38 or younger.
10 are 28 or younger.
10 live in California.
And it appears we’re again not getting a Jewish tribe!
Here’s who’s vying for the million this spring:
* Alex Angarita, 28, Los Angeles attorney.
* Edgardo Rivera, 28, Miami Beach ad exec.
* Liliana Gomez, 25, Oxnard, Calif., loan officer.
* Lisi Linares, 36, Los Angeles customer service rep.
* Rita Verreos, 38, San Antonio single mom.
* Michelle Yi, 23, Cincinnati student.
* Mookie Lee, 25, Wheeling, Ill., loan manager.
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The rumor is there are three nervous contestants tonight instead of the usual two. Larger jury. Larger pool of finalists. That’s the rumor.
Adam needs to win immunities. Longtime tribemates Yul, Becky, Ozzy and Sundra have the numbers.
Ozzy seems likely to crush Adam in tonight’s first immunity challenge, so I’m guessing Adam is first to join the jury tonight. This would leave:
1) Yul Kwon, menschy 31-year-old athlete/lawyer/brainiac who holds the Exile Island Immunity Compass.
2) Rebekah “Becky” Lee, 28, like Yul an Asian-American athlete/attorney.
3) Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth, the insanely adaptive 25-year-old Los Angeles waiter who can climb, run, swim, fish and capture birds with his bare hands.
4) Sundra Oakley, 31, both a working TV actress (“Sex and the City,” “CSI Miami”) and a cocktail waitress in Los Angeles.
Yul and Becky have the rock-hard alliance-within-the-alliance, so they’re unlikely to get voted off. Oz can’t stop winning challenges, so I judge the most likely final three to be Yul, Becky and Ozzy.
Yul is cool, but he’s a lawyer, and already seems to have plenty of money. Ozzy has fed a lot of people and I don’t recall him pissing many off.
If Ozzy can hang on to that immunity necklace, I believe tonight could be his night.
8 p.m. Sunday. CBS.
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There were seven left before the diabolical Jonathan got booted off the island last week, and we’re already down to the penultimate episode (the 3-hour finale airs Sunday).
(Either BNAT happened early this year, or “Survivor” is finishing up later. I always remember watching the finale, exhausted and starving, in an Austin hotel room.)
I note that representatives of all four original race-segregated tribes have made it this far: an African-American, a Latino-American, two Asian-Americans, and two whiteys.
Who will triumph? There are two super-players from California whom most of the others are anxious to evict at once:
1) Menschy 31-year-old athlete/lawyer/brainiac Yul Kwon, who holds the Exile Island Immunity Compass, and
2) Insanely adaptive 25-year-old Los Angeles waiter Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth, who can climb, run, swim, fish and capture birds with his bare hands.
This leaves:
4) Adam Gentry, 28, hunky if bumpkinish copier salesman.
5) Rebekah “Becky” Lee, 28, like Yul an Asian-American athlete/attorney.
3) Sundra Oakley, 31, both a working TV actress (“Sex and the City,” “CSI Miami”) and a cocktail waitress in Los Angeles.
6) Parvati Shallow, 23, both a boxer and a cocktail waitress in Los Angeles.
8 p.m. Thursday. CBS.
Gift The ‘Verse!!!!
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Get this! There will be 20 contestants this year (which has to be a record, right)?
Plus, the contestants will be grouped by ethnicity, just like on "Oz"!
As the show launches, it'll be four tribes: the five African-
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By date:
SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS Sept. 14
THE AMAZING RACE X Sept. 17
THE CLASS Sept. 18
CSI: MIAMI Sept. 18
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Sept. 18
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE Sept. 18
TWO AND A HALF MEN Sept
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Amber Brkish and Rob Mariano, who met on "Survivor All-Stars" and got married on a low-rated network special before they lost "The Amazing Race" together, will star in yet another reality show.
For the first time they'l
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Macho former fighter pilot Terry Dietz is no longer undefeated in individual immunity challenges. He was schooled by yoga instructor Aras Baskauskas in Thursday's episode, breaking what I'm guessing was the biggest winning st
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Some sort of gambling enterprise recently suspended its "Survivor: Exile Island" betting because a flood of bets suddenly started coming in for medical sales rep Danielle DiLorenzo.
Now a lot more people (the jury, crew,
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47-year-old airline pilot Terry Dietz is the only individual to win an individual immunity challenge this season. And there have been quite a few of them, and quite a few other people competing against him. Terry also found
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Survivor 12.12 FAQ
Good episode?
Great episode. The all-important immunity competition you've seen in the promos - the one with everybody on their knees holding onto the ropes over their heads - makes for a literall
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10 survivors remain, and things are heating up in tonight's excellent "Survivor" installment!
Four-member La Mina, devastated by the loss of Astronaut Dan, get some bad news at the top of tonight's episode. They're to pad
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CBS forwarded the second episode of the 12th season of "Survivor" - but the tape stops the second Jeff Probst tells the tribal council this: "To me this tribe seems a little all over the map. I'm curious to see how it plays
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It's the first "Survivor" to begin with four mini-tribes:
OLDER MEN
Bruce Kanegai, 58, art teacher
Dan Barry, 52, astronaut
Terry Deitz, 46, airline pilot
Shane Powers, 35, marketeer
YOUNGER MEN
Bobby Mason,
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