Australian Survivor Season 11 Episode 07 Description
Get, Or Get Got
Kelli returns to the Rebels tribe and claims to have orchestrated Nathan’s vote-out, but is criticized for volunteering to sit out of the immunity challenge. She is unable to answer questions about alliances and power structures on the Titans tribe, making her tribe suspicious. Kirby fills Kelli in on the new tribe dynamics and paints Feras as a dangerous player. At the Titans camp, Eden and Caroline discuss Mark’s close relationship with Viola and Valeria and contemplate making a move to break them up. Mark senses this possibility and suggests going after Caroline to protect themselves.
The tribes arrive at the reward challenge and are instructed to drop their buffs for a tribe swap. Raymond is given his choice of tribes and chooses the Titans. The tribes are then sent back to camp to get to know each other.
At the new Titans camp, Valeria is frustrated that her old allies were all sent to the Rebels, and is in a minority along with Winna and Charles. However, she plans to be hospitable and endear herself to the old Rebels through food. Kirby is separated from Rianna and still stuck with Feras, but both agree to set their differences aside and stay old Rebels strong for the time being.
At the new Rebels camp, Alex feels outnumbered on his new tribe and doesn’t see any cracks in the old Titans yet. Mark celebrates his “Middle Aged Mafia” alliance remaining intact, but worries about how Valeria will fare on the other tribe. Viola doesn’t fully trust her former allies and worries that Caroline and Eden could flip on her.
Immunity challenge: Players balance a ball on small gutters, working together to pass the ball from one gutter to the next. First tribe to transfer their ball to the end of the line wins immunity.
Titans win immunity. Back at the Rebels camp, Rianna worries that she could be an easy vote tonight in the minority, and spills old tribe secrets to her new tribe to appear useful. Mark suggests a split vote between Rianna and Sara, with Rianna going home as the bigger social threat. However, Viola and Caroline don’t trust each other and approach their respective allies about targeting the other. Eden is concerned about blowing up the alliance too soon and ruining their numbers advantage. Mark is also wary about striking too early and wants to stay old Titans strong.
At Tribal Council, Rianna comments on tribal divisions and believes there are no cracks in the old Titans alliance, while Alex hopes the tribe will keep him for his strength. Mark suggests that the old Rebels could be easy votes or easy numbers to use to make a move, but he and Viola espouse loyalty to their old tribe. Eden discusses the importance of timing moves properly to not wind up the target.
When the votes are read, Caroline’s blindside is successful, and Viola becomes the sixth person voted out of the game.
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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.