Australian Survivor (season 3)
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| Presented by | Jonathan LaPaglia |
| No. of days | 55 [1] |
| No. of castaways | 24 [2] |
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| Production location(s) | Samoa |
| Filming dates | May 2016 |
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| Original release | 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Australian Celebrity Survivor (on the Seven Network) |
The third season of Australian Survivor is a television series based on the popular reality game show Survivor. The season will be filmed in Samoa from May to July 2016 and is expected to air in late 2016 on the Network Ten. Hosted by actor and former emergency-room physician Jonathan LaPaglia, the program will consist of 24 Australian castaways competing for 55 days.[1][3] The grand prize is A$500,000.[4]
This season, announced by Ten in November 2015,[5] will be the third Australian edition of the program, the second to feature regular contestants and the first to air on Network Ten. The first season aired on the Nine Network in 2002, while the second season (a celebrity edition) aired in 2006 on the Seven Network.[6] This new season gives Australian Survivor the rare distinction of being one of the few Australian programs to have aired across all three commercial networks in Australia.
Contents
Production
Conception
After Australian Celebrity Survivor was not renewed by the Seven Network, it appeared that a third season of Australian Survivor would be very unlikely. However, in August 2013, the creator of the Survivor format, Charlie Parsons revealed in an interview with fan website and podcast SurvivorOZ that the rights to produce Australian Survivor had been licensed to an undisclosed production company who believed that there was an appetite for the program and would be pitching it to Australian networks.[7] On 19 November 2015, Network Ten revealed at their upfronts that they would be commissioning a revival of Australian Survivor to air in late 2016. It was also revealed that Endermol Shine Australia would be producing the series in association with Castaway Television.[8]
Casting
With the announcement of the series in November 2015, a casting call was made for potental contestants. According to a promo that was shown at the upfronts, 24 contestants would participate in the show [2] which is larger than any cast of American Survivor. Applicants for the series were required to be 18 years of age or older, be Australian citizens or residents and able to swim.[9] More than 5,000 people applied with the first week of casting being opened,[10] and 7,500 had applied before the year's end.[11] By mid January, the number of applications reached 10,000 and it had been expected that applicants would reach 15,000 by the 10 February deadline. This would make it the largest pool of applicants for a Network Ten reality program.[12]
Prior to production beginning, it was revealed that the 24 castaways range ages from mid 20's to mid 60's.[4]
Filming & Development
Many senior personnel were hired to work on the program before the end of 2015, including 'challenge guru' Trent Pattison, who has previously worked on the American version of Survivor as well as Ten's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[13] In total, 156 Australians and at least 180 Samoan locals are working on the program [14]
Filming of the series will begin in May 2016. Early rumours suggested that the Malaysian island of Pulau Tiga (the island used in Survivor: Borneo and Survivor: Pulau Tiga - The first seasons of the American and the British editions of Survivor respectfully).[13] It was later rumored that filming would take place in Samoa (which was used for the 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th seasons of the American series).[15] This location was officially confirmed on 9 May first by LaPaglia in a radio interview on the Hamish & Andy show.[16]
Contestants
Season Summary
Reception
Critical reception
Ratings
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.2dayfm.com.au/shows/rove-and-sam/podcasts/rove-and-sam-podcast-114---wednesday-11th-may-2016/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://tenplay.com.au/ten-insider/extra/season-2015/network-ten-upfronts-turn-on-ten-in-2016
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- ↑ http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/how-aussie-survivor-contestants-can-outwit-outplay-and-outlast-their-rivals/news-story/864ce261544105996dd16488bea758b8
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- ↑ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/survivor-australia-host-jonathan-lapaglia-says-role-extremely-challenging/news-story/2870bb69192852b81519c9968da7e235
- ↑ http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/australian-version-of-survivor-will-be-filmed-in-tropical-paradise-of-samoa/news-story/31d8aab77b846a42fe76fa046b4ee6b7
- ↑ http://www.2dayfm.com.au/scoopla/tv/blog/2016/5/jonathan-lapaglia-reveals-the-location-for-aus-survivor-on-hamish--andy/
