• Mid-series Survivor Highlight Show Added, Finale Pushed Back A Week"

  March 11, 2001
  CBS announced that it has added an additional one hour highlight show to the series run, "The First 24 Days: A Closer Look."

• CBS Denies Pig Killing Was Orchestrated (what a surprise)

  February 16, 2001
  Following PETA's accusation that CBS was somehow guilty of violating Australia's Animal Protection Act with the slaughter of a pig for food on last night's episode of Survivor, CBS has released a statement respectfully denying the charges.

  The statement read in part "We have the highest regard for PETA and The Humane Society and their cause. However, we firmly believe that our viewers recognize that hunting and fishing as a means of sustenance have been acceptable since the dawn of time."

  CBS also firmly denies that any criminal act was committed, saying "PETA's suggestion that the producers violated Australian law by orchestrating the pig incident is completely inaccurate."

  Source: Zap2It.com"

• PETA Investigating Pig Killing -- Including Whether It Was Staged Or A Domesticated Pig

  February 16, 2001
  "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released a statement today that the organization is in touch with lawyers in Australia to see if the slaughter of the wild pig on 'Survivor: The Australian Outback' by Kucha tribe member Michael Skupin may have been a criminal act."

• Survivor The Most Watched Show Of The Week Ending 2/4/2001

  February 11, 2001
  Survivor: The Australian Outback" won the most viewers last week despite narrowly losing to "ER" in household ratings.

• Survivor Clobbers Friends/SNL Combo For Second Week

  February 11, 2001
  The new CBS "Survivor" series knocked NBC's hour of "Friends" and "Saturday Night Live" from atop the Thursday night ratings pole for the second straight week, scoring victories in total viewers and the key 18-to-49-year-old audience segment.

• Kel Appears On Howard Stern, Denys "Pulling A Kimmi"..."

  February 6, 2001
  SurvivorNews.net reported on Monday that Kel appeared on the Howard Stern radio show today and during the interview he flat-out denied the New York Post story that we reported earlier regarding Kel "pulling a Kimmi" and pleasuring himself in the woods

  Source: SurvivorNews.net"

• Internet Awash In Copies Of "Fake Final 7"

  February 4, 2001
  This weekend a number of leading Internet Survivor websites, including our own SurvivorBlows, received emails purporting to have access to an AVI movie of the authentic Survivor show opening that contained a secret single-frame glance of the so-called "Final 7." As has been reported elsewhere, this movie is clearly an obvious hoax (though a pretty good edited one at that.) A copy of the frame from the movie that was sent to us is displayed on the right, created through the splicing of images from Kucha's Episode I Tribal Council and Okakor's Episode II Tribal Council.

• Kel Caught "Doing A Kimmi" In The Woods?"

  February 2, 2001
  Humm... it seems like Kimmi might not have been the only survivor worried about "having their needs satisfied" while stranded in the Outback for 42 days. The New York Post is reporting the following, although being the Post's 'Page Six' column, you can't help but be skeptical as to whether it's true:

• SurvivorNews.Net Reports Existence Of Lockbox Confirmed

  February 2, 2001
  SurvivorNews.net recently reported that a reliable source close to the production of Survivor has confirmed that the final tribal council votes are stored in a "lockbox," and apparently there was even somebody in charge of locking it.

  They quote their source as saying: "The camera recording the votes was left running and no one watched the voting occur. Supposedly the box won't be opened and the video won't be watched until production of the final episode begins."
  

  Source: SurvivorNews.Net"

• 'Survivor' Narrowly Beats 'Friends'

  February 2, 2001
  Round one of the Great Television War goes to 'Survivor II.'

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