The cast for the next season of Survivor has been announced. I think this locale is going to be an interesting one!

CBS Survivor Gabon

Jeff Probst\'s comments on each contestant

I saw this advertised on TV last night.
interesting.

Looks like lots of eye candy for both gals and guys to watch. I'm worried that if a few of those guys loose any weight at all in their hips the show will become completely x rated! :o

It will be fun to see if Ken Hoang, the gamer, does well or falls flat. I'll be watching to see how Jacque Berg gets along.

Karen, Help Please
I love Survivor and record it when I'm gone, but we are going to be in Italy Nov. 10 & on Oceania for 2 months Nov. 18-Jan. 7 and don't want to record if they are going to show Holiday Specials instead of Survivor.
So, do you know if there is a way to find out if "Specials" will interfere with "S" or will the series continue during the holiday period? know you are a weealth of information and hope you can help me with this.
Thank you in advance,
Joanne, the chocoholic

Joanne, I just saw this post, sorry it took so long to reply to you! I am sure there is a list somewhere online with the season airing dates, I will look for it and let you know.

Who watched tonight?? I am rooting for the Bill Nye the science guy, I forget his name but he rocked!! I think they voted off the wrong person for the first tribal council of the evening, how dumb to vote off your toughest girl just because she is grumpy.

Joanne, I searched around and couldn't find a list of the air dates for the season :(
Are you using a Tivo or DVR to record? If so, you can tell it to record only first run Survivor episodes and that way, it won't record any holiday specials. If I remember correctly, I don't think the holidays ever preempt Survivor as I missed a Thanksgiving show last year when I forgot to record it and was away.

I agree with you Karen.
I thought it would be Gillian, Susie,
and next time for this tribe Ken.
Have no idea on the other tribe but you are right Bob Crowley is fantastic.

LCTer's unite for Bob Crowley! When my husband got home from a meeting last night I told him "there is a 57-year-old guy who is a high school physics teacher who grew up camping in Maine that is thin but strong and knows how to do just about everything." I believe that Bob is also the first Survivor in history to turn his team buff into a bow-tie!

I agree with Karen. How dumb to vote off the strongest girl just because she was grumpy. Gillian should have been voted off first. Thank goodness that tribe came to their senses and did not vote off Dan due to fear that he might have found the individual immunity.

Randy get's my vote for fish hook inventor of the series.

I also forgot to mention, Gabon DOES look like Eden, especially in high def!

Oh yea it does. Including showing the snakes all the time.

Can't wait to see it--I missed the first episide, I'm stuck up at the cottage with bunny ears and a 30-year old TV. When I get home I will set my DVR up to record all the episodes. I often don't watch the whole show, just dip in and out, but with the DVR, I can choose to see it all (or most of it.)

Wendy, if you have high speed internet at the cottage, you can watch it online at CBS. It might be worth it just for the spectacular scenery and so you can see the boneheaded mistakes the one tribe made.

Thanks Karen, no we don't, I'm on dial-up up here.

But I can watch the opener when I get home that way, and then catch up. My new laptop has a pretty good display, it won't be like watching it on our HDTV, but pretty close.

Karen, thanks for trying. No, we are still in the 20th Century using a VCR for recording. We are very Low tech I'm afraid.

Yes, I thought Gillian would go first. Her first mistake was choosing the weak girls instead of the hunky, strong men. It will be interesting to see who goes next week.

Joanne

Joanne, don't feel bad about still being in the 20th century using a VCR for recording. We just joined the 21st century in late January of this year. Karen, Masaki and many others encouraged me when I was wavering on making the transition. They all told me I would love having a DVR and they were correct. We got ours included in our package when we switched cable providers.

We just switched when we moved to our condo in March, so we are newbies too. We bought an HD LCD television, and I insisted on the PVR--I'd been waiting for it! It's taken us months to figure it out, but I love it. I arranged to book my favorite shows while I'm up here at the cottage so I can watch when I get home. We are also getting the hang of recording a show in realtime, then delaying watching it for about 10 minutes so that we can zip through the commercials.

I also like being able to search for shows and take advantage of time-shifting.

I like the high-def but has anyone noticed, it looks too much like they are trying to create a movie? Cinematography (sp?). They tend to slow the picture down somehow and create an illusion? Yuck. I would rather have the "natural" picture but still in high def. (Like it is in sports, for example.) Oh well. Aside from that, looks like we are in for a great season. Gabon looks just amazing! My favorite is Jacquie, but of course, she is a University of Wisconsin grad and Medical Device sales rep, so she had me at hello! :)

Anyone watching? Last Thursdays episode was the best ever! I am so glad that awful man got booted and at the risk of sounding like a mean girl, they way they did it was priceless!

Karen...I agree, he was so nasty and mean. I think he got what he deserved....there have been a lot of blind-side hits this season, or at least it seems that way to me. ;)

Margo, I am rooting for Bob and Sugar, I think they are playing the best games. Bob's fake immunity idol was better than one I could of made after a visit to the craft store!

OH MY!!
I was shocked that he fell for the fake idol.
Boy is he going to be tough on the jury.

Oh my gosh! YES, that is one of the best Survivor episodes I've ever seen. Absolutely loved it. We are rooting for Matty, Sugar and Bob. Sugar sure has surprised us - she's wayyyy smarter than we thought she would be!

I missed that one, so I went to the web to find out the details. Serves him right. Now if they can only get rid of that nasty woman, what's her name,...Corinne I guess it is--she's a real schemer.

Wendy, you can watch the whole episode at CBS, it's really worth the effort!

Also at CBS is a 2 part video of Randy's arrivial to Ponderosa, the jury house.

Ponderosa part 1

Thanks for the suggestion, Karen. I've watched the video clips in Ponderosa, and Randy's exit chat. But at the moment at least, the main video has "expired". I'll keep an eye on the site.

Well that is odd, the videos don't expire as you can watch them from previous seasons as well.

Try this link, it worked for me so maybe your expired video was just a glitch.

That's the same link I went to, and it's still expired. Strange. Perhaps it's just an erroneous error message, and traffic is just too heavy. I'll try again later.

I should have written it here!
Did anyone see the ending last night?
Were you surprised?

LOL Jim, you would of thought what we would of replied about Survivor in this post but we posted over on the Amazing race message

Oh!
And since I don't watch that show I never looked there! :rolleyes:

Jim, you don't know what you are missing!

Probably true but one can't watch everything.