Archive for the ‘Survivor’ Category
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Richard Hatch, Russell Hantz, Colby Donaldson and Parvati Shallow Are Among the Show’s Castaways Breaking Down Every Aspect of the Game SURVIVING SURVIVOR brings back 10 of the game’s most iconic players to talk about the reality juggernaut that defined a genre in this new one-hour special to be broadcast Thursday, Feb. 4 (8:00-9:00 [...]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Coming Monday on “The Doctors”: “Survivor: Africa” winner Ethan Zohn talks about undergoing a stem-cell transplant. Zohn, 36, has been battling CD Positive Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and says the stem-cell transplant was “the best way to reset my body.” He spent 21 days in isolation after the risky procedure and talks about his prognosis with Dr. [...]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Press release from CBS tells us that they have officially renewed two more seasons of Survivor. Jeff Probst’s contract is up at the end of this season, but odds are that he will be back. They will be shooting the two seasons, back to back, like they did with Samoa and Heroes vs Villains. Both [...]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
A CBS source confirmed that the network has already starting funding pre-production of Survivor 21, which is traditionally a precursor to a formal order. CBS, in fact, has a few ducks to line up before it fires up production on yet another cycle: The contract for two-time Emmy-winning host Jeff Probst is also up this [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
“The night she finally passed, I had the most amazing connection with Jenn. I was in my home in Los Angeles listening to a CD of music I had given Jenn. I texted her sister Kim and asked her to play the music for Jenn. As I sat there on my couch thousands of miles [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Ten days before her death, friends and family surrounded Lyon at the Survivor 10-year anniversary party in Los Angeles. “She looked absolutely stunning that night,” Probst said. “Certainly a lot of that is because Jenn was always a beautiful woman, but there was a spirit inside her that was palpable. It was clear to me [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
“This has really rocked the ‘Survivor’ community,” “Survivor: Panama” castaway Austin Carty told Us Weekly magazine. He and Lyon briefly dated. “It’s just so sad. She was engaged in the greatest fight of her life, but she had every intention to fight and spread her positive messages.” Another “Survivor” alum, Johnny Fairplay, told the magazine, [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Jennifer Lyon, who placed fourth on “Survivor: Palau” in 2005, died at her home in Oregon Tuesday night, PEOPLE has confirmed. She was 37. The reality TV star was first diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer a few months after she wrapped “Survivor,” and opted for a modified, radical bilateral mastectomy, followed by courses of chemotherapy [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
However, After Elton’s Michael Jensen did catch up with Hatch, who told him, “I’m in the midst of being exonerated … for everything. Completely. I didn’t do anything. I am absolutely innocent. And eventually, whether I’m exonerated or not, that will come out.” He also said that while he was excluded from the season 20 [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
LIVE FOR THE MOMENT demonstrates how one person’s life-changing event inspired them to alter the way they live their life in this new one-hour special, to be broadcast Thursday, Jan. 28 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. In LIVE FOR THE MOMENT, host Jeff Probst takes Roger Childs, a family man diagnosed [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Earlier this month, Zohn was undergoing a complete stem-cell transplant, and according to his girlfriend Jenna Morasca, a former Survivor winner herself, the outlook is promising. “He’s doing okay,” she told PEOPLE earlier this month. “We’re getting toward the end and we’re hoping to go home [from the hospital] this week, but then he’s still [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
So, you’re industry titan Leslie Moonves. You turned around CBS in the 1990s, took it to No. 1 in the aughts and now you’re going to spend the teens building an entertainment empire. Your first release from the new CBS Films, “Extraordinary Measures” starring Harrison Ford, is out next week. And how do you think [...]
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The original “Survivor” told the Track he’s writing a book and that “there are a lot of good things happening.” “The book’s in progress. I have a deal. I’ve taken some meetings. I feel great.” So, Richard, if you had been able to participate in “Heroes vs. Villains,” what camp would tribal chief Mark Burnett [...]
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since “Survivor” first began airing. Back then, no one could have imagined the effect the show would have on the world of reality television — or that it would be able to survive the ever-changing tastes of modern-day television audiences. “I think the relationship we have with [...]
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