A few months ago, we informed you of the latest information about the 15th edition of CBS' Survivor: China, to be held...in China. As the stentorian narrator in this YouTube video says, "For the first time, a major American show goes behind the Great Wall to shoot entirely in China. It's a place where the strategy of war became an art." And cue the quotes from The Art of War. Naturally, every contestant was given a copy of that book.
While initially, it was thought that an island was the setting for the show, that rumor proved to be false. The true location of the shoot was near the part of the Zhelin Reservoir (柘林水库) located in Wuning county (武宁县), Jiujiang city (九江市), Jiangxi province (江西省). In accordance with Survivor tradition, the names of both "tribes" or groups are a tribute to the host country's culture. In this car, the names of the tribes are Flying Dragon (飞龙) and Fighting Tiger (战虎)...hmmm.
On the show's official website, you can view the profiles of all the contestants, including the party girl from Hong Kong that got kicked out of UC-Berkeley. She is one of two contestants of East Asian heritage on the show (okay...one and a half).
In two weeks, the show will premiere in America. We are too po for satellite television and don't even know if it's available in Shanghai. But if you want to see heavy editing and reality writing at its finest, you can tune in on Thursday, September 20 at 8pm for the premiere and every Thrusday night thereafter. Of course, there are other ways to view the show, but we would never, ever encourage that kind of activity.
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Sep 04 2007, 07:52 AM
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