• Survivor II Premiere The Second Most-Watched Post-Super Bowl Program In At Least 14 Years

  January 29, 2001
  "CBS's 'Survivor: The Australian Outback' got off to a strong start in its post-Super Bowl exhibition game on Sunday, but all eyes now turn to its tough Thursday test."

• CBS To Re-run Survivor II Premiere Wednesay @ 8PM

  January 29, 2001
  CBS announced today that it will rerun the premiere episode of Survivor II this Wednesday at 8PM EST -- it's old summertime time slot. If you missed it, here's your chance to see it before Episode 2 airs Thursday at 8 PM EST"

• Survivor II: The Field Guide - The Official S2 Book

  January 24, 2001
  TV Books, which acquired literary rights to the ``Survivor'' franchise even before the first series was cast, is expected to team up with desktop publishing software maker Adobe Systems to issue an electronic companion to the new series.

  TV Books published both a print and an e-book guide to the first series, titled ``Survivor: The Ultimate Game.'' It partnered with Contentville.com to serialize the electronic edition. Together with San Jose-based Adobe, TV Books will launch ``Survivor II: The Field Guide,'' by executive producer Mark Burnett, with a major, direct-to-consumer marketing push. The electronic edition of ``Survivor II'' will be available exclusively through Adobe software. The e-book is expected to feature video and graphics from the show and links to the Web.

  Source: Variety"

• Jenna Considers Kel Or Jerri The Favorites To Win

  January 24, 2001
  In an interview today with CNN, Jenna Lewis of Survivor I fame, when asked who are the "more likely people to survive this time around?" responded by saying that she liked Kel and Jerri.

  "I like Kel. He's the army intelligence officer, Kel Gleason. And I like Jerri Manthey. She is the actress from L.A.... I think they're both very likable, well-being and intelligent. So I think they have a good chance"

  ...and no, she doesn't know who won.

  She also notes that "I would have paid to go again", although " I would be called Zoey (ph). I would definitely go into the game with a different name" (due to Sean's alphabet voting system.

  Source: CNN"

• Richard Hatch To Offer Survivor II Commentary

  January 24, 2001
  Hey Richard fans, looks like you'll be seeing a little of him in the coming weeks. US Weekly magazine announced today that Hatch will comment on round two, ``Survivor: The Australian Outback,'' in a regular column for US Weekly.

  "The Hatch Report" will offer an inside look at the scheming and strategizing it takes to win the game. It will appear in the magazine for the duration of the CBS series, which begins Sunday night after the Super Bowl.

  Source: Yahoo! News"

• USA Today Reveals Luxury Items

  January 23, 2001
  The Tuesday, January 23th edition of USA Today contained an article in which the survivor's luxury items were revealed.

• NBC's 'Friends' To Be Expanded To 40 Minutes In Anti-Survivor Strategy...

  January 17, 2001
  NBC has declared war on Survivor's attempt to establish a Thursday night beach head for CBS, announcing that TV's top comedy will be expanded to 40 minutes in an attempt to battle Survivor. New NBC Entertainment prosident Jeff Zucker says NBC is "not going to roll over and die" against the Survivor juggernaut.

• New Survivor Debb Engaged to Stepson!?!?!

  January 15, 2001
  Ah wow... there's Debb, apparently continuing the Survivor tradition of doing fine folks of New Hampshire proud... First there was Jenna, the unmarried teenage single mother of twins, now this. Hey, I guess the state slogan isn't "live free or die" for nothing...

• CBS' Survivor II Website Launches, Full Contestant Info Released"

  January 4, 2001
  CBS introduced the 16 contestants of Survivor II this morning on the 'The early Show' morning news program, then launched the CBS Survivor II website -- featuring contestant names, biographies, photos, etc.

  Source: Official CBS Survivor Website"

• Contestants Had To Eat Raw Cow Brains, Live Worms, Larvae, & Grasshoppers..."

  January 3, 2001
  Wow, at least the Survivor I castaways only had to eat live larvae... according to NY Daily News reports, Survivor II contestants faced at least one challenge that involved eating worms, squirming
  bug larvae and live grasshoppers. It's unclear if the eating of the raw cow brain if part of the same challenge or another separate challenge.

  The article as notes that, although apparently no spear fishing is involved, contestants are able to use the nearly Herbert River as a source of food in the form of freshwater prawns, crawfish and mussels. For bait -- nope, not rats -- instead this time it's grasshoppers and other insects...

  Source: NY Daily News"

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