Australian Survivor sets a date for “tempestuous” finale
It's a closed set for Survivor's finale, but TEN's Stephen Tate hints at plenty more twists.
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The Australian Survivor finale is on the way, with one contestant set to walk away with $500,000 -one of the bigger prizes in Reality TV.
The last week sees three episodes beginning with a blindside and culminating in a finale on Tuesday October 25, with the final three contenders in a six hour Immunity Challenge.
While TEN isn’t confirming its plans for the finale, Head of Light Entertainment Stephen Tate hinted to TV Tonight, that it had already been filmed.
What can we look forward to for the finale?
“Tempestuous best describes the finale. Both the location and outcome,” he said.
“All I can reveal is it’s a closed set.”
It suggests the finale was filmed in Samoa at the end of the shoot, but upcoming episodes still promise plenty of twists.
“A really smart and subtle game is about to unfold and Aussie mateship will play a much bigger part than even we could have predicted,” he said.
Producers have had to be nimble with the show to meet TEN’s scheduling, which beefed up episodes early on from 2 to 3 a week, but fans have responded enthusiastically to the season overall.
“Yes it’s been hard on the fantastic post team at Endemol Shine Australia, who at times only delivered a few hours ahead of broadcast. But they certainly continued to deliver a quality show under extreme pressure,” Tate continued.
“We are thrilled with the both the TV and digital viewing figures and also relieved we have lived up to the Survivor fan’s expectations.
“Both CBS in the US and Castaway in the UK have been really impressed with our production values and storytelling. Plus everyone absolutely loves Jonathan’s performance.
“We’ve also had some really high praise from some of the US cast on Twitter.”
And as for 2017, Tate is keeping cards close to his chest, but TEN’s Upfronts are due in early November.
“Too soon for hints I’m afraid, but we are very happy with the series performance so far,” he teased.
Australian Survivor continues 7:30pm Sunday and Monday on TEN.
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I’m really enjoying our Survivor & am really looking forward to the finale. That’s disappointing if they don’t have the live reunion show. That’s the highlight of the series, getting people’s reactions to things they didn’t know about till they watched it back. Even the first season which everyone bagged out had the live reunion show, I remember Eddie Maguire hosted it.
Really enjoyed the Aussie version as well. Glad Brooke got blindsided….
I thought the Finale should’ve been live like the US Version followed by the Reunion, would’ve liked to see some of the reasons behind some of the moves
So I’m guessing no Reunion special. Would have liked to watch it, especially to get an understanding of some of the choices made by contestants.
This show is well worthy of being renewed. They’ve done a very good job, and with a few tweaks it will be really good. I vote for regular Monday and Tuesday slots – leave Sunday alone.
Have thoroughly enjoyed the season so far – some great challenges, some great twists and some great tribals (love the “if I am going to go out I’m going to tell it how it is” scenario). Jonathan has definitely added his own style while keeping the true Survivor flavour. I thought the final merge into such a large group was a bit risky and made it so much harder for the members of the minority to survive – but some have played very well against the odds. The mind games have been fantastic. Hated seeing JL go but loved Brooke’s demise.
Being renewed or not will all come down to money and return on investment. Aus Survivor is very expensive to produce.If it made enough money it will be back, if not no (I really hope it does get renewed).
Agree it is very expensive. Demos have been good, word of mouth excellent. I think TEN knows it has to build on its foundations, so I would be optimistic.
Who ever was in charge of casting needs to be let go ASAP. From players that refuse to strategise to the ones that just want to drift or even dob on anyone trying to arrange a blindside. I wasn’t quite sure if anyone on the show had seen Survivor before.
Don’t like Flick but if she got to the end I’d vote for her. Absolutely controlled the game from start to (potentially) finish.
As frustrating as all that is, it’s nothing new to Survivor – the fact that some winners have literally been under the radar for most of the game has always amused me but strategists often speed up their own demise. The same goes for the physical threats or the popular/likeable ones – they often don’t stand a chance. I think the “swinging voters” are the front runners more often than not these days.
On that basis, Kristie should win.
That’s true, I think that contestants in the U.S. Version have woken up since Russell Hantz was on and lost twice at the finale. They seem to put their emotions aside now and if a good strategist were to get to the end they would win. Just like the season that Tony Vlachos won.
This first season has been terrific.
Although perhaps some lessons may have been learned from that team pick earlier on where one team was enabled to be far stronger than the other and picked the other weaker team off one by one.
If the majority was smart they need to band together now to oust Lee ASAP as he is a huge threat to win.
No one would want to be up against him in the final two…
“A really smart and subtle game is about to unfold…”
Finally.
Let’s just hope they don’t film two different finales á la Masterchef
They did.
Loving every episode! Even if you don’t like Survivor, it’s an Aussie production we can be proud of.
There was a lot of comment when Ten went from 2 to 3 nights that it would be too much to commit to. But it seems Tuesdays have been the better performing night. Maybe they should do 3 a week next year if it’s renewed? That, or they need a compelling offering for the odd night out. But it has performed better than the first season of I’m A Celebrity, and that was renewed.
Hopefully it gets really interesting now….absolutely enjoying this !
it’ll be back. Its doing well in the demos and arguably 10’s must successful late year show since Australian Idol.
I am not a reality fan, but this has to be the best of the genre. My wife is a big fan and I pop in occasionally to watch, more so over the last 2 weeks.
For me it is interesting to see the different national cultural ethos at play. Is it me or do the Australians tend to sprout a lot more about playing an ethical game and of course mateship. Still now they are at the pointy end of the game and that has to be replaced with cold hard scheming and backstabbing. Sad to see Brooke go, as she has played the game well; whereas you can’t denine Flick gold backstab. That is why it is so good. Well done to all those involved in the production – top quality.
Yes, there is a cultural difference as you describe but also because I think US society is more defined according to class and socioeconomic divisions. In the US versions you get people thrown together who would never have mixed normally, whereas the Aussies are all pretty much on a level.