So does that mean we'll have two Survivor seasons this year set in Samoa?  Could be the case, as they will be shooting the next two seasons of the reality show back-to-back, rather than take a three-month break in between the two, like it usually goes.

"This season we're also doing back-to-back seasons because of budget cuts, and that's just the truth," host Jeff Probst told Reality Blurred.  "We [have] to do two seasons to save money, because every television show is undergoing some sort of a cut.  And I think that's going to be hard on people.  It's a long time to be away from home.  We're gone nearly four months.  Six weeks was one thing.  14 weeks is another."


The 19th season of the show is currently in production in Samoa, and reports say the show's crew have taken over a local resort.  I checked the reservations, and it's all blocked out from today until early October, without interruptions.  Eeek.

But that's perhaps the least of Jeff's concerns--not, of course, if you consider that his contract ends at the end of the 20th season.  Will he stay?  (And can you imagine someone else hosting Survivor?  It'll take eons for me to get used to it.)

"That will be 10 years, and I really at this point don't know my own personal feelings about continuing or not," he said.  "I don't want to be the guy that has anything to do with having a hiccup in Survivor.  It's a hard time to have a job, and I have one, and I certainly don't want to walk away from a job ... I've been telling Mark [Burnett that] 10 years and 20 seasons is a long time to do the same job from a creative standpoint.  But then there's the logical, rational side of, you are employed, you moron."

Well, while Mark Burnett is confident that the show will last twenty more seasons--"America's Most Wanted has been on for 20 years, [so] there's no reason Survivor won't be on for 20 years"--this should prove to be an interesting question.  If Jeff does decide to step down from Tribal Council, well...




-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Reality Blurred
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