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Everybody ready for the new season of survivor? From what I saw on the previews it looks like one tribe will get to live good (i guess the ones who win challenges) and the others will have to rough it. Did anyone else get that from the previews? So if that's the case would they have to change camps every time? There's supposed to be a big twist again this year...already wondering what it could be.

4 more days!!

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Everybody ready for the new season of survivor? From what I saw on the previews it looks like one tribe will get to live good (i guess the ones who win challenges) and the others will have to rough it. Did anyone else get that from the previews? So if that's the case would they have to change camps every time? There's supposed to be a big twist again this year...already wondering what it could be.

4 more days!! :)

I'm ready! LOL.

It seems that The Apprentice has the same format this season... as the losing team is "camping out" and the winning team has the mansion.

I was watching the previews, but was not sure when it was starting. Is it this Thursday? I finally got my Thursday routine down... LOL.

Yes, Thursday 2/8 at 7pm central time.

3 more days!

I am, I am!!! I watched the special with the interviews and some clips!!! Looks good!!

Oh, and did you see the previews for the All-Star Amazing Race??? The ever-present Amber and Rob are on!!! LOL

Can't wait! Starts tonight.

Here is a twist.... Looks like this time the the immunity idol is not
at Exile Island this time it's back at camp!


taken from tv.com
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Survivor: Fiji: Two Idols, Two Twists and Lotsa Snakes!
by Angel Cohn

One of the much-hyped twists on CBS' Survivor: Fiji, which kicks off tonight at 8 pm/ET, is having one group of contestants lounge in the lap of luxury while another is left with the bare minimum of supplies and no food. Cool concept, but it sounds oddly familiar, because, say, The Apprentice: Los Angeles is employing a similar idea this season. And both shows share Mark Burnett as an executive producer. Just a coinkidink? Survivor host Jeff Probst insists that that is absolutely the case. "Mark runs his shows very independently," he tells TVGuide.com. "I can tell you that this was an idea that was born organically from us, because I was sitting there as we discussed it and decided to do it."
That said, "We were a little surprised to find out that The Apprentice was doing it," Probst admits. "But after watching the first episode of Apprentice, they are very different worlds and very different methods of executing the same idea."

Previewing Fiji's first moments, Probst says, "All 19 people arrive on the beach together with no information. I come over in a sea plane and drop a package, with blueprints for building a massive shelter. There's a map to help them find this stash of wood and tools and lumber, a sink, they have a living room, a kitchen.... It is a beautiful place they are going to build. We have them build it, and then they find out that they'll be divided into two tribes and square off. The winning tribe gets the beautiful beach; the losing tribe gets sent to a new beach with a pot and a machete and water that you can't drink if you don't have fire."

Why the new haves-versus-have-nots twist? "The idea was to create disparity between the two tribes. You can't help but pull a little bit for the tribe that has nothing. What surprised me," says Probst, "was how quickly there was a sense of entitlement on the winning tribe. In addition to winning the shelter, they got the biggest housewarming gift we've ever given. I'm talking a couch, hammocks, all kinds of cutlery and plates and napkins, a sewing machine.... You see the winning tribe and one of the members saying, 'How bad is it that we have more food here than some of the people watching us at home have in their refrigerator?' Cut to the other tribe where they are on their hands and knees literally licking leaves to get drops of water. It is the hardest I've seen a group probably since Africa."

So if one tribe is already stripped of any perks, will Exile Island really be any different? "There is one difference on Exile Island — it has literally thousands of deadly sea snakes," he excitedly notes. "You see that play out in Episode 2, when the person on Exile has a run-in with a snake. It is very clear that they exist, and that it is a problem."

But at least if they fight off snakes, it means a chance to find the immunity idol, right? Not so fast, says Probst, detailing other new wrinkles. "This time when they get to Exile Island, the first clue will tell them that the idol is not on Exile Island, it is back at camp. And back at camp, how do you look for an idol when you are living with other people? It complicates that."

(second twist)
"The other big change with the idol — and this time I believe we figured it out — is that you must play the idol after the tribe has voted, but before I read the votes," Probst explains. "So when you go to tribal council, you take all the information you have from the beach and living with people. Then after they've voted, you've got to make that call if you have the idol. "

The result of that tweak? "The idol gets played more than once this season," says Probst. "It is not a season of Yul holding onto it until the end."


Meet the Castways @ http://www.survivorskills.com/fiji/cast/cast.php<br><br>Post edited by: Nadia, at: 2007/02/08 15:06

I found this about one of the contestants. Melissa McNulty was one of the castways for survivor fiji and after two weeks she decided she had enough and left. She says that she was having anxiety &amp; panic attacks.

Heres the story that I found at tv.com


Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Survivor Bombshell: Fiji's &quot;Babe&quot; Reveals Why She Bailed!
by Ileane Rudolph


She was going to be one of those Survivor babes. You know, the kind who uses her beauty and her cleavage to help her stick around on the island. Only 28-year-old Melissa McNulty didn't even make it to the first Tribal Council. The night before filming of the CBS series' new season (premiering Thursday at 8 pm/ET) began, the West Hollywood talent manager became the first player to quit. (At least Pearl Island's Osten and Palau's Janu survived a few challenges.) Melissa's exit left the producers with their own challenge: Since there were no alternates on hand, what to do with the odd number of players? &quot;It played out just fine,&quot; host Jeff Probst said in a recent press conference. TV Guide spoke to Melissa on the eve of Survivor: Fiji's debut.
TV Guide: Why did you quit when you had already made it so far, out of all the thousands who applied?
Melissa McNulty: Doing Survivor was a huge challenge for me. Everybody who goes on the show has different reasons and goals. Part of mine was that I suffered from panic attacks, and I thought, &quot;What better way to face that challenge?&quot; I was there in Fiji for almost two weeks before I took myself out of the game and came back to Los Angeles.

TV Guide: What triggered your panic attacks? Was it the prospect of being hungry, wet, dirty and full of bug bites?
McNulty: No. I'm a girly-girl, but that doesn't bother me. For 40 days? C'mon. My No. 1 trigger is being in a situation where I can't get out. I get a claustrophobia kind of panic. I had multiple panic attacks in one day, which I've never experienced before. I tried to pull myself together, but....

TV Guide: When you were auditioning, did you tell the producers about your anxiety attacks?
McNulty: Yes. They did ample research to assure that I was in a good mental state. My doctors and I thought I was ready.

TV Guide: What did you do when you knew you couldn't make it?
McNulty: I talked to my point person and said I was getting overwhelming panic attacks. They sent me to the on-site psychologist, and the producers talked to me. They were very accommodating. They wanted me to stay, and it was my decision to decide that I was not in the mental state to participate.

TV Guide: Do you have any complaints about how you were treated? They didn't ask for any monetary reimbursement, did they?
McNulty: No. [Laughs] I have nothing negative to say about the experience. It was wonderful. They got me home very quickly. They didn't make a big deal or make me feel bad.

TV Guide: Can you give us any tips on the players?
McNulty: I never even heard their voices! We weren't allowed to talk to each other before the game. I wasn't there long enough to know what was going on. Not that I'd tell you, if I could. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Will you watch Survivor: Fiji?
McNulty: Sure. I'm so excited, I'm TiVoing it. But I'm kicking myself in the butt. I know I should be on this! I was chosen, I was ready. I know I could have won some challenges. Outwit, outlast, outplay. I had it down, but I didn't last.

TV Guide: Do you feel like a failure?
McNulty: In many people's eyes, they'll think I failed, but in my own eyes, I succeeded. I was really pressing my limits to even go on the show. It was really awful when I came back, but now I can fly on a plane without a panic attack, I can sit in the back seat of a car.... There's many things I can do that I couldn't before. I'm a stronger person because of this. Also, before I was embarrassed by my panic attacks, and now I've decided to be honest and not shy away. Forty million people deal with this!

TV Guide: Would you try out for another reality show any time soon?
McNulty: I don't know if they'd even consider having me back, but I would absolutely try Survivor again next year. I'm a stronger person. There are a lot of people laughing at me right now, and I'd like to have the opportunity to tell them I'm not this &quot;weak prissy model&quot; that everybody is calling me on the Internet. I'm a lot stronger now.

For more from Melissa McNulty, including exactly how her panic attacks manifested themselves in Fiji, and what regrets she has, if any, watch for the Feb. 19 issue of TV Guide.<br><br>Post edited by: Nadia, at: 2007/02/08 14:55