Survivor enters its 33rd and 34th seasons starting this fall, but series host Jeff Probst is already eyeing the 40 season landmark, saying it’s the CBS reality show’s “next big goal,” per EW:
“I will admit that 40 is the next big goal. Our first episode of [season 34] will be our 500th episode and I did a little research the other day to put on the call sheet of how many incredibly popular shows never reached 500. It was pretty invigorating to see, wow, we have actually produced a lot of television. And our audience has stayed with us. I went to Survivor’s Wikipedia page. I started at the first year and went all the way down and there were some monstrous numbers in the beginning, but at around season 23, the ratings started to level off. And they haven’t dropped. And if you look at other shows, that doesn’t happen.”
[..] I truly believe that true Survivor fans know that we’re in this together. So getting to 40? Entirely possible. It looks like forever to get to 40 because just coming up with one theme is a gigantic hurdle. To come up with two, we always feel like we just conquered the beast. But that’s the goal.”
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the survival status of Survivor…
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