Survivor Panama Cast Revealed
01-09-06, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by kramdenfan
my vote for hot chick goes to either Courtney or Misty....
01-09-06, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Goldberg74
Bobby sounds a little unreal. His favorites:
Board Games - Risk, Boggle, Monopoly, Magic: the Gathering
TV Shows - SURVIVOR, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Tick, Deadwood, The Discovery Channel
Music - NWA, Dr. Dre, Westside Connection, Darkside Crooks, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Board Games - Risk, Boggle, Monopoly, Magic: the Gathering
TV Shows - SURVIVOR, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Tick, Deadwood, The Discovery Channel
Music - NWA, Dr. Dre, Westside Connection, Darkside Crooks, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
What about that he is single and live alone with his dogs, Bolo and Dog.
He actually named one of his dogs Dog?!
01-09-06, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by clckworang
What about that he is single and live alone with his dogs, Bolo and Dog.
He actually named one of his dogs Dog?!
He actually named one of his dogs Dog?!
Probably pronounces it Dee-o-gee. I know a few people that have named their dogs this.
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01-09-06, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Wait, he likes Magic: The Gathering -and- he's single? What are the odds?
Seriously, I can't imagine Survivor without at least 1 gay contestant. It's like in the rules or something.This looks like an interesting group. I like seeing "real" people, rather than pretty faces who are really aspiring actors. Well, a few pretty faces are ok, but they should be mixed in. You've got an ex-astronaut, fighter pilot, karate instructor, a "logging sports performer". Throw in the token black man and woman, and the aspiring artists, and it sounds like a fun time for all.
01-09-06, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Silt
Probably pronounces it Dee-o-gee. I know a few people that have named their dogs this.
02-01-06, 01:11 PM
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Reminder, this starts tomorrow night!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060201/en_nm/media_cbs_dc
CBS to sell new "Survivor" episodes on CBS.com
44 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New episodes of the popular "Survivor" reality television series will be made available for download directly from CBS Corp.'s Web site, a first in network TV, the company said on Wednesday.
CBS, which split from Viacom Inc. in January, has been trying since last year to appeal to new viewers, who now turn to the Internet and portable media devices for entertainment.
The New York-based owners of the CBS television network and radio stations group already offers its top rated shows including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" on Google Inc. video service for $1.99 and on Comcast Corp.'s on-demand system for 99 cents.
Its latest plans now cuts out the distributor. The company said it plans to share an undisclosed portion of the revenue with broadcast affiliate stations, as it has done with other new media deals.
"It's been our strategy to exploit content across as many platforms as possible," Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, said in a statement.
New episodes will be available shortly after midnight following the airing of new episodes on TV. Customers will be able to watch the episode for a 24-hour period after paying.
Chris
CBS to sell new "Survivor" episodes on CBS.com
44 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New episodes of the popular "Survivor" reality television series will be made available for download directly from CBS Corp.'s Web site, a first in network TV, the company said on Wednesday.
CBS, which split from Viacom Inc. in January, has been trying since last year to appeal to new viewers, who now turn to the Internet and portable media devices for entertainment.
The New York-based owners of the CBS television network and radio stations group already offers its top rated shows including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" on Google Inc. video service for $1.99 and on Comcast Corp.'s on-demand system for 99 cents.
Its latest plans now cuts out the distributor. The company said it plans to share an undisclosed portion of the revenue with broadcast affiliate stations, as it has done with other new media deals.
"It's been our strategy to exploit content across as many platforms as possible," Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, said in a statement.
New episodes will be available shortly after midnight following the airing of new episodes on TV. Customers will be able to watch the episode for a 24-hour period after paying.
Chris
02-01-06, 02:38 PM
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....WINTER edition, say, set in northern Canada. In January. Agreed that the tropical locales are getting tired.
02-01-06, 11:19 PM
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Thanks mrpayroll. I had no idea the new season starts tomorrow and would have missed it had you not mentioned it.
Chris
02-02-06, 10:18 AM
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Survivor 02/02/06 Season Premiere
Immunity idol complicates ‘Survivor Panama’ Hidden treasure should shake up show’s tribal council
COMMENTARY
By Andy Dehnart
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 7:13 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006
The twelfth season of “Survivor” is titled “Survivor Panama.” It’s the first season to include the name of the Central American country in its title, but this actually the third time the show has been filmed in Panama. The seventh season of the CBS series was titled “Survivor Pearl Islands,” while the eighth was known as “Survivor All-Stars.” Both of those seasons, though, actually took place on some of the exact same islands that will be featured on “Survivor Panama.”
While it’s understandable that the production would want to return to a familiar, comfortable, workable, and admittedly stunning location, why return for a third time to the same place —especially since the show’s executive producer, Mark Burnett, has referred to the locations he selects as “the 17th character” and says he desires “iconic” locations? Isn’t Panama now just familiar and maybe even a little boring?
It may be, but the location for this season will be overshadowed by what the 16 characters will face there. While “Survivor” likes to shake things up from season to season, the game and the show have, for the most part, stayed the same. Previous twists have undeniably affected the game play and even the outcome, but there has yet to be a major twist that lasts the entire season and affects the game throughout. And no twist in 11 seasons has changed in the game’s structure.
That will change in Panama.
This season, there are three major changes to the game we know about now, one of which may reverberate throughout the season, and two of which will have the ability to affect the game every single week. Interestingly, all three have appeared in one form or another over the past 11 seasons, but it’s this season that they’ll really have long-lasting impact.
First, the 16 castaways will be split into four tribes at the beginning of the game, grouped by age and sex. Older men, younger women, older women, and younger men (loosely defined, as one of the “old” men is 35, and one of the “old” women is 32) will get to know each other before they get to know the other 12.
As we’ve seen nearly every season, initial bonds are the ones that tend to lead to alliances. Sometimes those alliances last the entire season and carry their members into the final four or even the final two, and thus this initial division could result in one group of people moving together through the game. Of course, alliances also break apart easily, and once tribes merge, as they inevitably do, new bonds may form, severing the ties formed when the cast members were split by sex and age.
Life in exile
The second twist is much more fundamental — so fundamental, in fact, that this season’s subtitle, “Exile Island,” explains what’s involved. As host Jeff Probst said while previewing this season, “Each week, at least one castaway will be banished to this desolate place, separated from their tribemates for days at a time in one of the most unforgiving environments yet.”
Exiling someone to spend a night alone isn’t entirely new. It happened to Janu on “Survivor Palau,” when she lost an immunity challenge. But she was already an outsider, seemed thrilled to be away from the others for a night, and ended up quitting the game at the next tribal council. More significantly, she only spent one night by herself, and thus is not a very good example of what may happen this season when castaways spend days apart from one another.
We don't yet know how these castaways will be selected to spend time on Exile Island, or if they’ll be excluded from challenges while there. But the time spent alone will clearly have an effect on their relationship with their tribemates.
And that brings us to the third twist: Hidden on Exile Island will be an immunity idol. This is familiar because last season, an extra individual immunity idol was hidden in the jungle around the tribe’s camp; ex-NFL quarterback Gary found it and used it to save himself at tribal council. Unlike last season, however, this immunity idol will be re-hidden every week, so more than one person may find it and use it.
But most shocking of all is the fact that the idol won’t be played until after votes are cast at Tribal Council.
In "Survivor" terms, this is stunning, because the tribe will essentially be voting without knowing how their votes will play out. If the person who receives the most votes has the idol, the person with the second largest number of votes will go home.
Jeff Probst recently offered a hypothetical explanation of this major twist when talking to Jam! Showbiz: “Now, what if I have the idol and I don’t tell you and what if you vote for me — all of your guys vote for me. I cast my single vote for you and I have the idol and you are the one that has to go home. That will screw your game up and everybody knows that any time somebody has been to ‘Exile Island’ that means the idol could have been found. It means it could have been traded with someone. You don’t know,” Probst told the site.
Probst also promised that this will be “wreaking havoc” by the middle of the season. He said, “At one point someone said to me at tribal council that ...’You know, we think this has just changed the game too much’. I cracked up. That’s definitely a sign it’s working.”
If anything, these changes officially make “Survivor” a game unlike most others. “Survivor” does not have easily mastered rules that games like tennis, chess, horseshoes or Parcheesi do.
Instead, it relies on much more fundamental skills, ones that can be applied regardless of changes to the game’s specific rules.
Survivors must be able to bond with other people, to help form a community, to be physically strong despite adversity, and to strategize and play people against one another despite all of this. These twists will unquestionably challenge every one of the 16 castaways in each category.
Because of the show's emphasis on the importance of people over rules, and because human relationships are so unpredictable, “Survivor Panama: Exile Island” may be the most complicated, difficult game human beings have ever played. And that will probably make it one of the most exciting seasons to watch.
Andy Dehnart is a writer and teacher who publishes reality blurred, a daily summary of reality TV news.
COMMENTARY
By Andy Dehnart
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 7:13 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006
The twelfth season of “Survivor” is titled “Survivor Panama.” It’s the first season to include the name of the Central American country in its title, but this actually the third time the show has been filmed in Panama. The seventh season of the CBS series was titled “Survivor Pearl Islands,” while the eighth was known as “Survivor All-Stars.” Both of those seasons, though, actually took place on some of the exact same islands that will be featured on “Survivor Panama.”
While it’s understandable that the production would want to return to a familiar, comfortable, workable, and admittedly stunning location, why return for a third time to the same place —especially since the show’s executive producer, Mark Burnett, has referred to the locations he selects as “the 17th character” and says he desires “iconic” locations? Isn’t Panama now just familiar and maybe even a little boring?
It may be, but the location for this season will be overshadowed by what the 16 characters will face there. While “Survivor” likes to shake things up from season to season, the game and the show have, for the most part, stayed the same. Previous twists have undeniably affected the game play and even the outcome, but there has yet to be a major twist that lasts the entire season and affects the game throughout. And no twist in 11 seasons has changed in the game’s structure.
That will change in Panama.
This season, there are three major changes to the game we know about now, one of which may reverberate throughout the season, and two of which will have the ability to affect the game every single week. Interestingly, all three have appeared in one form or another over the past 11 seasons, but it’s this season that they’ll really have long-lasting impact.
First, the 16 castaways will be split into four tribes at the beginning of the game, grouped by age and sex. Older men, younger women, older women, and younger men (loosely defined, as one of the “old” men is 35, and one of the “old” women is 32) will get to know each other before they get to know the other 12.
As we’ve seen nearly every season, initial bonds are the ones that tend to lead to alliances. Sometimes those alliances last the entire season and carry their members into the final four or even the final two, and thus this initial division could result in one group of people moving together through the game. Of course, alliances also break apart easily, and once tribes merge, as they inevitably do, new bonds may form, severing the ties formed when the cast members were split by sex and age.
Life in exile
The second twist is much more fundamental — so fundamental, in fact, that this season’s subtitle, “Exile Island,” explains what’s involved. As host Jeff Probst said while previewing this season, “Each week, at least one castaway will be banished to this desolate place, separated from their tribemates for days at a time in one of the most unforgiving environments yet.”
Exiling someone to spend a night alone isn’t entirely new. It happened to Janu on “Survivor Palau,” when she lost an immunity challenge. But she was already an outsider, seemed thrilled to be away from the others for a night, and ended up quitting the game at the next tribal council. More significantly, she only spent one night by herself, and thus is not a very good example of what may happen this season when castaways spend days apart from one another.
We don't yet know how these castaways will be selected to spend time on Exile Island, or if they’ll be excluded from challenges while there. But the time spent alone will clearly have an effect on their relationship with their tribemates.
And that brings us to the third twist: Hidden on Exile Island will be an immunity idol. This is familiar because last season, an extra individual immunity idol was hidden in the jungle around the tribe’s camp; ex-NFL quarterback Gary found it and used it to save himself at tribal council. Unlike last season, however, this immunity idol will be re-hidden every week, so more than one person may find it and use it.
But most shocking of all is the fact that the idol won’t be played until after votes are cast at Tribal Council.
In "Survivor" terms, this is stunning, because the tribe will essentially be voting without knowing how their votes will play out. If the person who receives the most votes has the idol, the person with the second largest number of votes will go home.
Jeff Probst recently offered a hypothetical explanation of this major twist when talking to Jam! Showbiz: “Now, what if I have the idol and I don’t tell you and what if you vote for me — all of your guys vote for me. I cast my single vote for you and I have the idol and you are the one that has to go home. That will screw your game up and everybody knows that any time somebody has been to ‘Exile Island’ that means the idol could have been found. It means it could have been traded with someone. You don’t know,” Probst told the site.
Probst also promised that this will be “wreaking havoc” by the middle of the season. He said, “At one point someone said to me at tribal council that ...’You know, we think this has just changed the game too much’. I cracked up. That’s definitely a sign it’s working.”
If anything, these changes officially make “Survivor” a game unlike most others. “Survivor” does not have easily mastered rules that games like tennis, chess, horseshoes or Parcheesi do.
Instead, it relies on much more fundamental skills, ones that can be applied regardless of changes to the game’s specific rules.
Survivors must be able to bond with other people, to help form a community, to be physically strong despite adversity, and to strategize and play people against one another despite all of this. These twists will unquestionably challenge every one of the 16 castaways in each category.
Because of the show's emphasis on the importance of people over rules, and because human relationships are so unpredictable, “Survivor Panama: Exile Island” may be the most complicated, difficult game human beings have ever played. And that will probably make it one of the most exciting seasons to watch.
Andy Dehnart is a writer and teacher who publishes reality blurred, a daily summary of reality TV news.
