Survivor will return with another all-new season in early 2022, and CBS has announced its premiere date.
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CBS has announced Survivor's 42nd season will premiere with a special two-hour episode on Wednesday, March 9 at 8PM ET/PT.
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The series will once again be hosted by Jeff Probst.
During the show's upcoming 42nd season, castaways will attempt to outwit, outplay and outlast each other for the $1 million prize.
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Following its debut broadcast, Survivor will move to its regular timeslot of Wednesday nights from 8-9PM ET/PT beginning on March 16.
CBS made the announcement when unveiling its Winter/Spring 2022 schedule for new and returning scripted, alternative and specials programming.
Jeff, Mark Burnett, Matt VanWagenen, Kahaia Pearson and Jesse Jensen serve as executive producers for S.E.G. Holdco., LLC., which is the production company behind Survivor.
Survivor is currently airing its 41st season on CBS.
Season 41 of Survivor features a brand new 26-day format with more unpredictable twists, turns and risks for its castaways than ever before.
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"We haven't decided if we will go back to 39 days," Jeff told Entertainment Weekly ahead of the series' Season 41 premiere in late September on CBS.
"I will say that I'm optimistic that fans will find this new 26-day game to be very entertaining and Survivor-worthy."
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Following a year-long delay in production due to the coronavirus pandemic, Survivor producers were able to imagine and execute a new "unrelenting" 26-day game Jeff previously dubbed "Survivor 2.0" and "a bold new era" of the show.
Survivor's crew returned to Fiji in March 2021 to film two seasons of the CBS series back to back.
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But since cast and production were required to quarantine for two weeks as a COVID-19 precaution, the Season 41 game was shrunk down from its usual 39 days to only 26 days -- and the change could apparently be a permanent one.
"The decision to change the game to 26 days came from the fact that we couldn't leave our bubble," Jeff explained.
"So if we wanted to shoot two seasons, we had to do it back to back. For us to shoot two seasons of 39 days, back to back, along with our 14-day quarantine, would have meant nearly 100 days, and that was simply too long."
The Survivor castaways were given minimal supplies and scarce Reward Challenges, with Jeff boasting the game has never been "so dangerous" before.
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CBS also revealed The Amazing Race will premiere its 33rd season in early January 2022, followed by a new Celebrity Big Brother edition that will subsequently begin airing in early February 2022.