Archive for the ‘Survivor’ Category

Richard Hatch Still Ticked About Being Thrown Back in Jail – TV Squad

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

What happened with NBC that sent you back to jail, was that truly a misunderstanding?
No, it was not truly a misunderstanding. It was a calculated action on the part of a corrupt and broken bureau of prisons bureaucrat who had been intentionally targeting me for quite some time. Her name’s Deborah Mann. And we spent [...]



Survivor 21, 22 may film in Nicaragua, followed by Caramoan in the Philippines + reality blurred

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

If early location reports are correct, Survivor may return to Central America for its 21st and 22nd seasons, followed by seasons 23 and 24 in the Philippines in 2011. The series will be filming back-to-back, same-location seasons for the near future, if not forever.
For production this summer, the show may go to Nicaragua, according to [...]



Probst stays with 'Survivor' – Entertainment News, TV News, Media – Variety

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Jeff Probst will remain host and exec producer of “Survivor” through May 2011.
CBS announced that Probst, who has been the only host of the reality juggernaut since in launched in 2000, will continue with the skein through its 21st and 22nd installments.
“Even in my wildest dreams, I couldn’t have predicted we’d still be going strong [...]



Jeff Probst signs on for two more 'Survivor' seasons

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

After a decade and 20 seasons of the reality TV show Survivor, host Jeff Probst understandably considered moving on to other things. But fortunately for his fans, Probst is “not finished with Survivor yet,” and he will still be pulling hand-scrawled names out of a jar for seasons 21 and 22.
Probst is also hosting the [...]



Orlando Sentinel – The TV Guy – ‘Survivor’: Jeff Probst to return as host next season

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

A new cycle of “Survivor” starts this week, and before the big premiere, CBS is announcing that host Jeff Probst will return next season.
And what a relief. The show wouldn’t be the same without him. Probst won the Emmy as top host for a reality competition the past two years.
Probst tried something new with “Live [...]



Jeff Probst renews 'Survivor' contract – CNN.com

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Good news, Survivor fans: Jeff Probst, whose contract on the CBS hit reality show was expiring, has decided not to snuff his own torch…yet. The host tells EW.com he will be back on the show past the season’s 20th edition, “Heroes vs. Villains” (which kicks off Thursday night at 8pm).
“What has kept me interested in [...]



'Survivor' Villains Richard Hatch And Russell Hantz's First Meeting

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

“Surviving Survivor” airs Thursday, Feb 4 at 8 p.m. on CBS.

“Surviving Survivor” brings together 10 of the game’s most iconic players to relive the memories of their time on the hit CBS series, and ET exclusively has video of the first-time meeting between season one winner Richard Hatch and last season’s runner-up Russell Hantz.
“Are you [...]



Surviving Survivor relives memorable moments with castaways

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

You need to know that this “pre-season” show is going to be broadcast on:
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM on CBS

Survivor is reliving some of the most memorable moments of the reality series with the castaways who lived them on the one hour special, ‘Surviving Survivor,’ on Thursday, February 4, 2010 on CBS. Catch [...]



2004 Olympic gold-medalists Crystal Cox accepts doping punishment – ESPN

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A member of the 1,600-meter gold-medal relay team at the Athens Olympics has accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results for doping.
Crystal Cox, who ran in the preliminaries for the American team led by Sanya Richards, admitted to using anabolic steroids and agreed to the penalty Friday, the U.S. [...]



RELIVE SOME OF "SURVIVOR'S" MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS WITH THE CASTAWAYS WHO LIVED THEM ON THE ONE-HOUR SPECIAL, "SURVIVING SURVIVOR," THURSDAY, FEB. 4

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 PM, [...]



Orlando Sentinel – The TV Guy – ‘Survivor’: Ethan Zohn shares his cancer battle with ‘The Doctors’

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. Travis [...]



Network Orders Two More Editions of "Survivor"

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 of [...]



'Survivor:' get ready for season 21… and more? | EW.com

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 [...]



Jeff Probst remembers 'Survivor: Palau' contestant Jennifer Lyon | EW.com

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 [...]



INSIDE STORY: Jennifer Lyon's Cancer Battle – Jennifer Lyon : People.com

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 [...]



"Survivor" Contestant Jennifer Lyon Dies – CBS News

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, “Jen [...]



‘Survivor: Palau’s’ Jennifer Lyon dies at 37- msnbc.com

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 and [...]



Richard Hatch insists he'll be "exonerated," will return to TV + reality blurred

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 cast [...]



HOST JEFF PROBST TAKES VIEWERS ON AN INSPIRING ADVENTURE THROUGH THE EYES OF SOMEBODY WHO HAS LEARNED HOW TO LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST IN THE NEW SPECIAL, "LIVE FOR THE MOMENT," THURSDAY, JAN. 28

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 with [...]



Ethan Zohn Wants You to Get on a Bike – for Charity : People.com

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 [...]