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udg 3381 desperate attention whore postings
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01-18-04, 12:24 PM (EST)
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"Canada.com article..."
18 return to fight for survival
All Stars begins Feb. 1 on Global, KIRO at 8 p.m.

Dana Gee
The Province
Sunday, January 18, 2004
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/story.asp?id=F7A3E0EC-390B-437A-B2BB-2B0891AF8400

HOLLYWOOD -- Plan on freeing up your Thursday nights because Survivor: All Stars is something you don't want to miss.

If the clip -- which shows the contestants getting an armed military escort and host Jeff Probst standing outside on the rudder of a helicopter as it flies by -- shown here at the Television Critics Association press tour is accurate, this Survivor is going to be a doozy.

The deal is 18 former Survivor contestants are split into three groups and dropped off by boat on the coast of Panama.

In order to truly challenge the castaways producers decided to give them very little to work with.

All that was supplied was one canteen of water per person, a cook pot and a machete.

They had to build a shelter, a fire and boil their contaminated drinking water.

"They never expected this," said Probst. "Survivor: Africa was the hardest, that is until this one. This is by far the hardest one, you'll see that in the first episode."

"It's nature in the raw," producer Mark Burnett told TV writers. "We kicked their asses."

Did they ever.

None of the Survivors knew what they were in for or who would be joining them for the 39-day test.

"Nobody trust anybody, do you understand?" said Rob Mariano from Survivor: Marquesas.

It's that knowledge of the game that had some of this returning batch trying a different strategy.

Jeri Manthey, the gal we all loved to hate from Survivor: The Australian Outback was choked to see she was in a group with Tina Wesson The Outback winner and not one of Manthey's biggest fans.

"I'm going to try this new strategy of mine and that's keep my damn mouth shut," said Jeri.

Probst scoffed at people's attempts to present other versions of themselves. He said the harsh conditions quickly brought out people's true colours.

"You're either nice or you're a #####," said Probst.

Everyone has their own reason for returning to the game. Some want more fame, revenge and some actually enjoy playing.

"It's not about the money," said Tina in the trailer for the show. "It's about life experiences. When I kick the bucket, I'll have a casket full of life experiences."

Finding the right 18 people out of 112 former contestants was left to Burnett, Probst and CBS boss Les Moonves. "It didn't have to do with who won the money or who went far," said Probst. "It was who was the most memorable."

Only Elizabeth Hasslebeck (nee Filarski) now a host on The View and Colleen Haskell declined invites.

And if what Burnett and Probst had to say and what the clip package showed about the gritty new game they made the right choice.

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 And a few more details... udg 01-18-04 1
   RE: And a few more details... tribephyl 01-18-04 2
   RE: And a few more details... munson 01-18-04 3
       RE: And a few more details... JazzyJax 01-18-04 5
 RE: Canada.com article... volsfan 01-18-04 4

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01-18-04, 12:37 PM (EST)
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1. "And a few more details..."
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/jan04/200825.asp

...CBS may or may not be able to count on Romano much longer, but right now its eye is focused on a group that won stardom in a less conventional way: the 18 participants in "Survivor: All-Stars," which is scheduled to debut Feb. 1 after the Super Bowl.

The eighth "Survivor" is set, like No. 7, in the Pearl Islands off the coast of Panama. Contestants range from Wisconsin trucker Susan Hawk and fellow "Survivor I" veterans Richard Hatch, Rudy Boesch and Jenna Lewis to recent Pearl Islands castaway Rupert Boneham, a popular also-ran.

Before taking the stage to talk about the show, host Jeff Probst and producer Mark Burnett gave critics a sneak peek at the "All-Stars" footage.

It featured a cheery Hatch sporting a miniskirt and a beleaguered Jenna Morasca ("Survivor: The Amazon") announcing, "I can't believe we're here! We're such morons!"

Probst stopped short of endorsing the "morons" concept but did say the entire group - host and crew included - was "in crisis mode by Day 21" of the 39-day ordeal.

With "Survivor" always in need of fresh gimmicks, Burnett this time chose to strand his 18 players with nothing but the clothes on their backs and some machetes, cooking pots and maps. No rice, no flints, no drinking water.

Wasn't Burnett afraid it would all be too hard on former Navy SEAL Boesch, who will be 76 this week?

Not at all, the producer said: A doctor checked Boesch over and said he "was like a 50-year-old."

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01-18-04, 06:15 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: And a few more details..."
Probst stopped short of endorsing the "morons" concept but did say the entire group - host and crew included - was "in crisis mode by Day 21" of the 39-day ordeal.

Day 21, according to our calendar, would be the 8th boot TC.
A day (or so?) before the merge.
Is this hype? Or is there some underlying reason for "crisis mode" to take effect?

With "Survivor" always in need of fresh gimmicks, Burnett this time chose to strand his 18 players with nothing but the clothes on their backs and some machetes, cooking pots and maps. No rice, no flints, no drinking water.

Brak ... Brak ... Brak!
"The worst conditions ever... No food... No luxury items... No matches... Only one pair of underwear...
Been there ~ Done that
However, this li'l tidbit makes me want to check out vid-caps a little closer to see if anyone has any "non-starting" items at their camps.



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01-18-04, 06:59 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: And a few more details..."
Probst stopped short of endorsing the "morons" concept but did say the entire group - host and crew included - was "in crisis mode by Day 21" of the 39-day ordeal.

This seems to contradict Snewser's 37 day calendar.

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01-18-04, 11:12 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: And a few more details..."
Just spec here but I wonder if the 37 (vs. 39) days only covers the time the Survivors were actually together on the islands. Perhaps three teams of six were sent out on a "trip" and then were mixed into their three _new_ tribes when they got back, fulfilling some of JP's criptic comments about previous alliances, and Snewsers "Mexico city group got screwed." The game could have been the entire 39 days with a MB setup for the first two.

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01-18-04, 08:44 PM (EST)
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4. "RE: Canada.com article..."
None of the Survivors knew what they were in for or who would be joining them for the 39-day test.

This has been discussed on another thread and I think proves that each tribe had no idea who was on the other tribe!

I know we had come to the conclusion that this was prolly true. However, leads to verification. IMHO!


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