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CBS to maroon 16 potential millionaires

CBS wants to make a millionaire out of a lone survivalist in a 13-episode series planned for next summer.

Survivor is part voyeuristic reality show, part game, part adventure series - MTV's The Real World crossed with Lord of the Flies, with a dash of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Today, producers will begin seeking 16 contestants from across the country. They will be flown to Borneo in the spring and marooned for 39 days on Pulau Tiga, an uninhabited, tropical-rain-forest island, with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Once there, they'll be forced to create their own cooperative society, performing such tasks as building shelters, collecting food and engaging in carefully planned contests. In exchange, they'll win simple yet priceless comforts: pillows, soft drinks and the like.

The contestants will be followed constantly by 10 camera crews and joined by indigenous species, including 6-foot monitor lizards and wild macaques, which tend to steal food.

But Survivor is less a physical endurance contest than a sociological experiment. At the end of each hour-long episode (covering three days), the group will hold "tribal councils" and vote to expel one member, who'll promptly be exiled from the island. This process of humiliation will go on until two remain; those previously ousted then choose which of the two wins the $1 million.

"The entire winning and losing is nothing but group dynamics," producer Mark Burnett says. Contestants will have to decide whether to share their rewards or risk alienating those who can vote against them. "Everything is designed to create tension in the group. It's really like a human experiment in some ways."

Burnett, the man behind Discovery Channel's athletic Eco-Challenge, is adapting a format created by British producer Charlie Parsons that has been stunningly successful in Sweden and the Netherlands. For the CBS version, contestants need not be accomplished athletes; producers will deliberately seek diversity in age, sex, employment and geography.

"I think Survivor is a great case of unique programming," CBS Television CEO Leslie Moonves says. "There's nothing like it on the air right now."
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Dat vind ik wel een sterk staaltje van cynische regels maken; diegenen die er eerder door hun mededeelnemers uitgeknikkerd zijn, mogen 1 van de twee overblijvers gelukkig en de andere doodongelukkig maken en zo lekker hun gram halen.
Kan die regel niet ook nog ff op het huidige BB project losgelaten worden?'

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Karin: "Nou heel eventjes, en dan moet je eruit, Bart."

Met die opdrachten lukt dat zeker niet! Ik bedoel, tafeltje zetten! Wat wordt het volgende week, binnen een uur brood bakken?
Er moet drastisch iets gebeuren in het huis want het wordt te saai voor worden.