First twelve minutes of Australian Survivor are up on 10 Play:
Also, Redmond has done a deep dive on each contestant: http://insidesurvivor.com/meet-the-full-cast-of-australian-survivor-season-4-39263
And confirmed that there will be two seasons filmed in 2019: http://insidesurvivor.com/australian-survivor-filming-two-seasons-in-2019-39252
Survivor watermark during MasterChef tonight, with the words âthe best seasonâ on top. Shouldnât it be up to the viewers to decide if it is true?
Depends on whether they are being truthful or pulling shit out of their arses.
Agree. I hate when showâs do this⊠it feels like they try and make out that it is every year. Didnât they do a similar thing last year at the merge with some big promo saying itâs the best or craziest end game ever? Itâs typical networks overhyping. It will be hard to top last season.
Scott Tweedieâs behind the scenes look of Australian Survivor for Studio 10 yesterday.
Anyone else think this going to tank extremely bad?
Why would it when last year it was such a hit?
Most of Tenâs shows have dropped this year so I expect it will follow the same trend. Going with the exact same theme doesnât make the premiere feel very exciting or like must watch TV. I could be wrong but I think the numbers will be pretty average tonight but it does have the benefit of not having any huge competition on other networks so you never know. The true test will be next week.
Mumbrella has done a feature interview with Survivor EP and Tenâs head of entertainment and factual programming, Stephen Tate.
Rugby league legend Andrew âETâ Ettinghausen is on Studio 10 today to talk about his experience on the show.
EDIT: ETâs interview clip.
Interesting episode 1 tonight. The first segment went for more than 26 minutes. Champions came from behind to beat Contenders in the reward challenge, before Contenders turned the table in the immunity challenge. It was a close call for Pia (a big Survivor fan) who feared she would be the first voted out, instead memory champion Anastasia was sent home.
There was no intro with the familiar Survivor theme, looks like we will have to wait until tomorrow night.
In the end credits, the Screentime logo features prominently, even though the show is produced by Endemol Shine Australia. Screentime and Castaway Television (who owns the Survivor format) are both owned by French company Banijay, so what is Screentimeâs role in the show?
I thought it was a pretty average opening episode. We barely got to see any of the contenders yet most of the champions got full packages of their backstory. This cast so far doesnât seem as interesting or excite me and the first ep was wayyyyyy too long. Typical that we have all the âatheletesâ in a very easy alliance on the Champions tribe.
At the first tribal council, why did Jonathan ask the contestants if they had a hidden immunity idol? Is it possible that the clue for hidden immunity idol is available on day 1?
I agree it was not the most interesting episode and by the end I knew nothing much about anyone other than the celebrities that we already knew. I so wished someone was going to go for Luke, the âpeopleâs championâ. If he was the best person to ever play Survivor why didnât he win?
You obviously donât watch a lot of Survivor? Why would he wait until someone has an Idol to ask that question? That would be telling everyone that somebody has an Idol. I would assume there is an Idol hidden at each camp from day 1 but even if not if there are going to be Idolâs in the season he needs to be consistent at asking that question at every Tribal council.
Just catching up with the new season of Survivor. And it is quite strong. However, in typical Australian reality style they just drag the episodes too long. I donât mind, nor do I agree, the extended episodes but 75 minutes for a regular episode is just a bit to excessive. I am just glad I am not watching this live.
This is such a well produced show - agree the eps are sometimes a bit too long but I prefer them clocking in over an hour with two challenges than fitting a broadcast hour with just the one. Would be frustrating to have to watch with a break every ten minutes though.
Issue as always in these early stages is too many contestants to really care, but although Iâm not so keen on them using Champions v Contenders for a second season running it does mean as viewers you generally are backing the Contenders as the underdogs, so I was happy they won the first immunity challenge.
Luke seems to be carrying the show at the moment, which probably doesnât bode well for his long term future. I did think he was brilliant last year, though not sure completely worth bringing back over everyone else. The next logical step is a Fans v Favourites season though so wouldnât be surprised if he got a third shot.
The promoâs do my head in âWhoâs going to make the biggest move in Survivor historyâ. Calm down. There is no way thatâs going to be the case so early in the season. Even in the second ep they claimed it was the âtoughest challenge everâ and it definitely was not . Weâve also had promoâs saying âbest season everâ. All these claims just 2 eps in! Eyeroll
Taking cues from Nine, but at least the voice isnât as cringeworthy as Nineâs.
As a viewer Iâm backing the Champions⊠generally much nicer people than the Contenders IMO. I agree the program looks better than the American one. Still doesnât get the viewers though, I believe most 10 reality shows are better produced than 7 or 9.
I loved Janine last night. She spoke so well at Tribal Council and is about the only person on that Champion tribe that Iâm going for. Iâm finding these old washed up sports stars really boring. If they think forming an alliance simply based on being sports stars is going to last then they are dreaming. Clearly a lot of them havenât watched Survivor before. Also Iâm finding Luke very annoying⊠I hate that heâs getting all the airtime just because they think viewers want to see him.
It was interesting how they addressed that the Shaun guy on the contenders tribe as Megan Galeâs husband and how he was an AFL player. They tried to twist it like he got there and failed but playing in the AFL for 4-5 years is pretty massive. He wouldâve played more AFL matches than the AFLW lady on the Champions. He is definitely on the wrong tribe but they clearly are trying to level it up.