Australian Survivor Season 07 Episode 01 Descriprion
24 Australian Survivor All Stars returned to Savusavu, Fiji to settle scores, change legacies, and push themselves to become the next Sole Survivor. They had been divided into two tribes (Mokuta in green and Vakama in yellow), and they immediately began the game with their first reward challenge.
Reward Challenge: Tribes pushed a heavy sled to collect firewood supplies across a sandy beach course. Once the tribe felt they had enough supplies, they returned to the start to build a giant bonfire. One tribe member raced to the end of the course to retrieve a torch to light their bonfire. The first tribe to cut their bonfire’s rope won the “Ultimate Tribe Camp”: a completely built shelter, with a working fire pit.
Mokuta won the challenge, despite overloading their sled with firewood supplies and taking longer to build their bonfire. Henry found a clue to a hidden immunity idol at his tribe’s torch, and let Mat know there likely would be a clue on Vakama’s torch. The clue informed both men that there would be an idol hidden in a tree at Tribal Council and only valid for the first three Tribal Councils.
Mokuta enjoyed the luxuries of their new camp, with Shane trying to reconcile with Lydia for her blindside in their original season and bonding with Henry. Harry, however, was suspicious of Shane’s obvious idol searching and was reminded how Shane played such a successful under the radar game previously.
At Vakama, Tarzan identified Locky, Mat, and David as the three early Alpha males of the tribe. David found himself immediately bonding with most of Vakama, unlike in his last season. Mat was determined to get a hold of the idol at Tribal and use it to improve his game. The tribe struggled over their first night, having to build their own shelter.
Immunity Challenge: The tribes navigated through an obstacle course consisting of A-frames and crashing through stick tunnels, with the second stage having four tribe members holding up standing platforms for the rest to traverse onto a platform. Those same four tribe members then smashed open wooden boxes holding five balls, and held open a chute for two more tribe members to shoot their balls into. The first tribe to land all five balls into their chute won immunity.
After Vakama won the challenge, Mat approached John to keep Shane, checking in with her as well. Back at Mokuta, Lydia felt that the first vote was the best opportunity to eliminate Shane to get her revenge, but chose to let Harry take the charge in rallying the numbers. Harry’s work put him in Shane’s radar, with Shane trying to bring in Sharn and Henry to target Harry. Henry was determined to make a big move right away and thought taking out a big game player like “Dirty Harry” was a significant start to All Stars. Henry thought about grabbing the idol at Tribal and immediately using it to blindside Harry. However, when Henry presented this to Nick, Nick tried to dissuade Henry from playing too big a game from the get-go.
At Tribal Council, Shane and Lydia’s past was brought up, with Shane trying to declare that there is a clean slate. The tribe also discussed whether people should start playing intense, strategic games or just play it safe to start out the season. In the end, Shane’s words fell on deaf ears as Harry and Lydia managed to rally the votes to vote out the former winner. As Mokuta left Tribal Council, Henry lagged behind the group and grabbed the idol out of the tree.
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Australian Survivor Show Descriprion
Australian Survivor is an Australian reality game show based on the international Survivor format. Following the premise of other versions of the Survivor format, the show features a group of contestants, referred to as “castaways” as they are marooned in an isolated location. The castaways must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves. The contestants compete in various challenges for rewards and immunity from elimination. The contestants are progressively eliminated from the game as they are voted off the island by their fellow castaways. The final castaway remaining is awarded the title of “Sole Survivor” and the grand prize of A$500,000.
The series first aired in 2002 on the Nine Network, who as of 2020, also hold the first-run Australian broadcast rights to the flagship American edition of Survivor. In 2006, a celebrity edition aired on the Seven Network. Both iterations of the series only lasted one season due to low ratings.
In November 2015, the Network Ten announced at its network upfronts that it would be reviving the series in 2016. The series commenced airing on 21 August 2016. Unlike its predecessors, the series was renewed by Network Ten for another season for 2017, and has continued to be successful since. An All-Star edition featuring former contestants aired in early 2020. A second 2020 edition set to feature new civilian players was expected for later in 2020, but production on that season was postponed due to issued travel restrictions as well as safety concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This season is now set to be produced in mid-2021, in an Outback location near the town of Cloncurry, Queensland and is set to air in late 2021.
Australian Survivor Show Format
The show follows the same general format as the other editions of Survivor. To begin, the players are split into two or three tribes, are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meagre supplies for a period of several weeks. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for immunity, forcing the other tribe to attend Tribal Council, where they must vote one of their tribemates out of the game by secret ballot.
About halfway through the game, the tribes are merged into a single tribe, and challenges are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out during this stage become members of the Tribal Council Jury. When only two players remain, the Final Tribal Council is held. The finalists pleads their case to the Jury as to why they should win the game. The jurors then have the opportunity to interrogate the finalists before casting their vote for which finalist should be awarded the title of Sole Survivor and win the grand prize of A$500,000 (or a A$100,000 charity prize in the celebrity season).
Like other editions of the show, the Australian edition has introduced numerous modifications, or twists, on the core rules to prevent players from over-relying on strategies that succeeded in prior seasons or other editions of the show. These changes have included tribe switches, players being exiled from their tribe for a short period of time, hidden immunity idols that players can use to save themselves or another player at Tribal Council from being voted off, voting powers which can be used to influence the result at Tribal Council and players being given a chance to return following their elimination.
Survivor in Australia
The first Australian version of the Survivor format was filmed in late 2001, and aired in 2002 on the Nine Network. The program was a contractual obligation if the network were to be allowed to continue to broadcast American Survivor. The program was criticised for poor casting and lower production value than the popular American edition and it was not renewed due to low ratings. The Nine Network still hold the first-run rights to American Survivor and have continued to broadcast the American edition of the program ever since. Since 2013, recent seasons air on Nine’s secondary channel; 9Go! and streamed on 9Now within hours of the original American airing.
In 2006, the Seven Network found a loophole in the contract between the Nine Network and Castaway Television, which allowed them to produce a celebrity version of the series, due to a celebrity format being viewed as different from the original format. The Seven Network did not renew the series.
In November 2015, Network Ten revealed at its upfront event that it would air a new season featuring regular contestants to air in the last quarter of 2016. This new season gives Australian Survivor the distinction of being one of the few Australian programs to have aired across all three major commercial television networks in Australia. Australian Survivor has continued to air yearly, concluding its most recent season in March 2020.
Following Network Ten’s acquisition by CBS (the United States broadcaster of the format) in 2017, starting in December 2018, CBS made the complete American Survivor series available on their paid Australian streaming platform, Paramount+ (known as 10 All Access until 2021). The broadcasts include the previously unaired to Australia Survivor US: Marquesas, which Nine did not air due to its commitment in airing their 2002 version of Australian Survivor. A select few seasons are also uploaded to 10’s free streaming site, 10 Play. Each US season is uploaded some time after the season has aired on Nine Network, when the rights to that season revert to CBS under their agreement. Additionally, as of September 2020, both seasons of Survivor NZ and the Philippines & Island of Secrets editions of Survivor South Africa were also uploaded on 10 Play. In 2021, 10 Play offered week-to-week streaming via 10 play of the Immunity Island edition of the South African series as it aired in South Africa.
