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Tribe busy on Australian Survivor

More details on TEN show emerge, with 156 Aussies filming in Samoa.

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More news for Australian Survivor fans with a recent set visit reported by Herald Sun‘s Luke Dennehy.

There are 156 Australians currently working on the show, booking out a luxury hotel in the Samoan capital Apia.

Upwards of another 180 locals are also working on the show, which has been a year in the planning. Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi even hosted a welcoming function last week for the show.

There are 16 cameras involved including GoPro cameras and drones with challenges assembled in a warehouse not far from the tribal council location.

Julia Dick from Castaway Television has also been on site to consult on the show, which films across 55 days, longer than the US 39 days.

Host Jonathan LaPaglia says Jeff Probst has been very helpful to his new role.

“He gave me his number, I called him a couple of times with questions and he picked up straight away,” he said.

Survivor has had two local runs, on both Nine and Seven, but it sounds like Endemol Shine are doing this right for TEN.

You can read more here.

8 Responses

  1. It makes sense to go for 55 days to do two episodes a week but i really feel for the players having to stick it out for an extra 16 days. That’s gotta be mentally challenging. I wonder if they’ll know in advance its 55 days instead of the usual 39?

  2. 55 days makes it sound like Ten are going to milk this over multiple nights a week rather than let it stand out as a strong once a week format.

  3. Very glad Jeff is helping Jonathan! I cannot wait for this. It has to be better than that crappy Celebrity Survivor we had a few years ago.

  4. Everything is looking and sounding terrific from this. So many of us have craved Aussie Survivor done right for too long. I’d love to know the reasoning behind the 55 day shoot though.

    1. Larger cast is the reasoning behind the longer season. The US show has 16-18 (max 20) players with a 39 day game. That is 14-18 Tribals that for the most of the game are held every 3 days (exceptions with the final 2/3 TCs being held daily and an occasional double elimination twist). A 39 day game with 24 players means most TC would to be held every 2nd day which could be too fast fot production (setting up a reward challenge for the 1st day and prepping for the immunity challenge and Tribal Council for the 2nd)

      A 55 day game allows the TCs to (for the most part) be held every 3rd day which would allow things for production to be as similar as possible to the US show.

      Now on the question of “why 24 players?”. Maybe because a larger cast means more TC which means more eps, enough to potentially keep the episodic elimination format while having the show on multiple nights a week…

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