Survivor South Africa

Mr E

For any survivor fans looking for a fresh fix, look out for Survivor South Africa Season 5, currently airing in South Africa (up to episode 8 or 9 now).

It has the same production values as the US version and the same familiar structure we are used to (reward challenges, immunity challenges, immunity idols and tribal councils).

The differences are that each tribe is mentored by a famous SA sports star, the episodes are over an hour long each and the challenges are much more gruelling...

Gotta love the "Seth Efrican" accent too.

Worth a look....

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I caught up with this last week. Really good, but I wish Probst could present this one too...

I'm definitely rooting for the

Rugrats

alliance

Mr E

The double tribal episode was great - in the first one, using the

flint

as an immunity idol was clever (even though it wasn't necessary), and

Shona

really screwed herself with the

idol theft

. Great TV.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Will be interesting to see what happens next week

when they merge

kingtut

Ye a lot of Survivor seasons from other countries can be found online. Some are crap but others are pretty decent!

Newaglish

I find it to be in desperate need of editing, it takes forever for them to get to tribal council, two hour episodes before someone leaves?!

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Newaglish wrote: »

I find it to be in desperate need of editing, it takes forever for them to get to tribal council, two hour episodes before someone leaves?!

That was just for the premiere. From episode 3 onwards, the format is the same as the US version.

Newaglish

The pacing is still driving me mad but I actually was really impressed at the tribal council where he used the tribe's flint as a makeshift immunity idol. Haven't seen that done before.

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Newaglish wrote: »

The pacing is still driving me mad but I actually was really impressed at the tribal council where he used the tribe's flint as a makeshift immunity idol. Haven't seen that done before.

Shame he didn't follow through and save his ass though.

Newaglish

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Shame he didn't follow through and save his ass though.

Well he wanted to go home so I guess he succeeded? He just didn't want them to vote for Buhle

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Newaglish wrote: »

Well he wanted to go home so I guess he succeeded? He just didn't want them to vote for Buhle

Oh yeah, forgot that he wanted to go...

Episode 10 sucks by the way, first 14 minutes are so are re-cap, as are the last 5 minutes, and nothing majorly important happens in between apart from

the fact that they merge, which was dull and uneventful

Otherwise a pointless episode

Thargor

Thanks for the tip, going to grab a few of these. Would you recommend series 1-4 or are they too old now?

Remember RTE did a version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_%28show%29

It was pretty funny iirc, a guy got caught trying to bribe the film crew with 20 Euro he found in his jeans.

kingtut

Thargor wrote: »

Thanks for the tip, going to grab a few of these. Would you recommend series 1-4 or are they too old now?

Remember RTE did a version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island_%28show%29

It was pretty funny iirc, a guy got caught trying to bribe the film crew with 20 Euro he found in his jeans.

I liked that show, it was poorly produced but I am a sucker for those kinds of shows! Even recorded the episodes (well most of them) on VHS :pac:

Remember in the 2nd season when the two finalists from one of the teams went on a naked walk to the other team ?

Thargor

No, I only found out there had been a second season when I googled for that wiki link today. I dont know how it passed me by either because Im addicted to this stuff aswell since the first Survivor. Ill never find a torrent of it and RTE will never repeat or stream it either

kingtut

"Treasure Island: Extreme was hosted by model Jacqui Rickards and was more "extreme" than past Treasure Islands pitting ex-police, SAS, armed forces and soldiers against each other with no food, water or shelter at all. The winner of this season was John "Horse" McLeod. Notably, when the SAS contestant Baz Rice was eliminated from the game he refused to leave and instead hid in the jungle. Because of previous threats made to rival contestants, a security warning was issued to other competitors. He eventually returned from the jungle and left the island."

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

kingtut

Thargor wrote: »

No, I only found out there had been a second season when I googled for that wiki link today. I dont know how it passed me by either because Im addicted to this stuff aswell since the first Survivor. Ill never find a torrent of it and RTE will never repeat or stream it either

If I find the tapes (and manage to put them on to a dvd) I'll upload them to youtube, the quality will be bad and I don't have all of them but I will do my best

Another show I liked was 'jailbreak':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(TV_series)

Thargor

Nice one if you do, why dont these production companies ever have shops on their websites for past shows? It doesnt cost more than a few Euro to have DVDs professionally printed these days, so many shows Id love to see again but are probably lost forever now unless Challenge or Dave or someone picks them up.

I remember Jailbreak alright, I think the guy who won most of the money was the first to make a break for it, he kind of stole the group plan and did it all himself in the middle of the day iirc. Also, a massive guy was disqualified because he just kicked the lock of a door and escaped instead of solving the puzzles or carrying out a plan.