Australian Survivor Season 10 Episode 12 Description
At the Heroes camp, Flick is furious with Simon for giving her a fake idol, believing he intentionally lied to the old Heroes to further his game. George is thinking ahead to the merge and decides to bring in Matt as a potential source of information against the alpha males, but Matt is hesitant to trust the old Villains.
At the Villains camp, Simon feels great about his new alliance after giving up his idol for safety. Liz also feels more secure with her new bond with David, Nina and Sam, and she doesn’t trust Simon at all. She publicly confronts him for his repeated lies and challenges him to reveal his idol, but he declines. Liz and David discuss going after Simon or Hayley at the next vote.
When the tribes come together for the next challenge, Flick publicly calls out Simon for attempting to pass off his fake idol as real, shocking everyone on the other tribe, including Simon.
Reward challenge: One member of each tribe races up a net wall to retrieve a ring, then attempts to shoot the ring onto a high hook. First tribe to win three rounds wins a Chinese banquet.
Villains win reward. During the challenge, Flick suggests to Sam that the Villains should throw the next immunity challenge to get rid of Simon. Back at camp, the Villains confront Simon during the feast, and he swears that he didn’t know his idol was fake. Shaun considers his previous promise of safety to Simon nullified because his idol wasn’t real, and he contemplates throwing the next challenge.
Immunity challenge: One member of each tribe races out to a station to memorize a sequence of symbols, then returns to their own station to recreate the sequence. First tribe to win three rounds wins immunity.
Heroes win immunity after Shaun, Hayley and Nina throw the challenge. Back at the Villains camp, Hayley discusses the risk involved with throwing challenges, but is confident that Simon is going home. The tribe contemplates a split vote between Simon and Liz, but worries about Simon playing a real idol and decides to tell Simon to vote for Sam. Sam starts to get paranoid and scrambles to make sure his name isn’t being discussed, and Nina comes clean that he was the decoy vote. Sam and Nina realize how good Shaun and Hayley are at lying and consider flipping the vote onto Hayley.
At Tribal Council, Simon asks Jonathan what he found in the cookie jar, and Jonathan confirms that it was simply a clue to the real idol. Liz discusses her struggle to break into the tight-knit old Heroes tribe, and Simon echoes her sentiment, calling himself a “gun-for-hire”. Sam says he felt awful about receiving votes last time and is worried about receiving more tonight.
Before the vote, Jonathan informs the tribe that tonight will work differently, and invites the Heroes tribe into Tribal Council as spectators. He gives the Villains a chance to mutiny by writing their own name down to join the Heroes tribe; if multiple or no people write their names down, rocks will be drawn to determine who switches tribes.
When the votes are read, Liz elects to mutiny, and she joins the Heroes tribe.
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Australian Survivor Show Description
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.
