A new reality TV champion will be crowned on Wednesday night during the season finale ofSurvivor42onCBS.
In reality, however (no pun intended), that champion wasactuallycrowned last June in Fiji.
With the still unpredictable nature of Covid, what does that mean forSurvivorfinales and reunions moving forward?
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 42’.Robert Voets/CBS
We askedJeff Probstexactly that, and the host spilled on theSurvivorplan for the fall season and beyond.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Get ready for round two, Zach Wurtenberger!
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor’.Robert Voets/CBS
(Also check out our pre-finale interview with theSurvivor 42jury.)
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Who do you think is in the best and toughest position heading into this final five?
Instead, I feel more comfortable talking about the group as a whole and the season in general.
I LOVE THIS FINAL FIVE!!
How’s that!?
We have five completely different styles of game play coming from five completely different types of players.
There isn’t any overlap in how they approach the game.
Each has taken their own path.
And there is still so much game left to play.
It starts with … starting over.
This new era ofSurvivorforces the players to earn it every day and that includes the last three days.
After 23 difficult days, the players now have to begin again.
It’s all there in that one long sentence.
That’s what you have to do to win.
It’s a tall order, but someone is going to do it.
The prize is there for the taking.
The only question is… which player will seize it?
I lovedevery second of every daywith this group.
I would play another season again with them right now.
Every one of them.
No matter how it plays out, we are going to have a great winner this season.
It’s so vastly different from the live reunion show because it’s happening in real time.
as it is about the actual game.
But like everything onSurvivor, it’s always in a state of flow.
We are establishing new markers.
Other specific twists will come and go depending on the season.
We changed the game because we wanted to give players a new series of problems to solve.
The easiest way to frame it is to compare it to our very first season.
They adapted to the game.
That’s what we’re doing with this new era.
The next group of players now has a bit of insight into this new version ofSurvivor.
Or how do you keep an advantage a secret with a game design that is so public?
We don’t want everything to be a surprise.
