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LOL at the names of the tribes!

Am getting exxcited!  One programme finishes but another comes back to get us hooked!

Such a good timeslot. Nice 2hrs there with CSI straight after Gets better every season.

Mark your calendar guys - 22 October 2006 (7:30 p.m.) The first episode of Survivor: Cook Islands will be fitted against NZ Idol. Yahooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

I saw the ad for this before..."coming soon"....yusss!

Yaya! Survivor is awesome, i really am hoping the teams are going to be to my liking! I get bored when all my favourites get voted out!

In Australia it is starting this week, and we are usually behind them so we must be getting it kinda soonish.

The first episode of Survivor: Cook Islands premiered in the US a week ago. Watch the opening credits on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN3g2j9UIbE

I really can't wait to watch the new season. It's a very unique season. Come on TV3! Show it now!!!!

From the New Zealand Herald:

Survivor plays the race card

  The 13th season of the reality TV series Survivor - filmed on the island of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands - will start with teams split according to race: Whites, Blacks, Asians and Hispanics.  The host of the CBS show, Jeff Probst, said yesterday that being on the show was a social experiment and this would "add another layer" to the experiment.  "There are going to be people looking for stereotypes: Will this tribe be smarter than this tribe, or will this tribe be faster than this tribe?" Probst told People magazine.  "That's why I think it's fun. But five people in a tribe do not represent an entire ethnic group."  The new series will start screening in the United States on September 14 as the 20 contestants vie for a US$1 million ($1.58 million) prize.  TV3 spokesman Roger Beaumont said no date had been set for showing the series here.  A spokeswoman for a Latino advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza, Lisa Navarrete, said the racial division was irresponsible: "They are willing to engage a pretty hot-button topic for ratings and feel they won't have any problems. "Knowing Survivor, and the way the game is played, it gets very ugly and setting it up that way almost propels people to go there - act negatively toward other races."  CBS acknowledged the format was controversial: "Survivor ... has always answered its critics on the screen," it said.  Cook Islands News editor John Woods said the TV series finished filming at Aitutaki on August 6, and that the islands' Government had indicated it expected a significant boost to tourism from the expected global TV audience of 200 million people. The show used a crew of 250 to 300 people  - NZPA

Taken from NZ Scouting Weekly News: Names removed for privacy.

"TV Survivor Cook Islands

The ..................... Sea Scouts are involved with the American based “Survivorâ€? programme which airs on TV3 on a Sunday evening.

Very tight security and secrecy surrounds the filming of the show and those nearly 300 staff involved behind the scenes have to sign a confidentiality agreement not to disclose matters that might affect the outcome or to harm the programme in any way.

This security was apparent when ............................................. Sea Scouts arrived on Atiutaki by air with some additional equipment required by the film crew.  He was met at the airport and driven to the base camp where he was given security clearance and signed the confidentiality documentation.  Following a conducted tour of the marine base he was briefed on the security matters then spent the day working with the crew responsible for the four 5 metre long Sea Scout cutters.

The filming will be completed around the 5th August with the big clean up and packing of many containers of gear including the two containing the cutters.  Two will return to NZ whilst the remaining two will travel back to Rarotonga due to the rotation of the shipping service.

For those wishing to keep up with this programme, log onto Google.com and key in “Survivor Cook Islands� where an official security cleared comprehensive report is available.

We look back to seeing the boats back safely in New Zealand."

INSIDE GOSS

A boat called the 'R. Tucker Thompson' (that my Mum's Uncle helped build way back) is going to be used on the show. Northlanders be proud \m/

Some NZ Sea Scouts involved in the running of this.  Security very tight apparently!

I saw the ad for this after the final of the last one, it looks awesome! I'm hoping they go to one of the little islands off Aitutaki, it's the most beautiful place in the world And I'm definitely going to watch this season!

I remember my sister talking about that when she went up there for a couple of weeks - this was about last year when they were on a boat - someone was pointing out that they were just setting up for the new survior!! sounds a little strange that this was about this time last year!!