There’s good news for one of Mark Burnett’s poorly performing summer reality series: Pirate Master‘s ratings improved last Thursday. It had an increase of “27 percent over the previous week’s” ratings among people 18 to 49, Media Life reports. And overall, the show picked up 400,000 viewers: the previous week, 5.4 million watched, while 5.8 …
Pirate Master
The first person kicked off of CBS’ Pirate Master says that the show’s cast isn’t entirely responsible for making the ship sail safely. Instead, there’s a “ghost crew” on board, according to the pirate identified as a “scientist/exotic dancer.” “I was expecting a lot of really hard work … that if we don’t get this …
The debut of Pirate Master on CBS was watched by only 6.99 million viewers. The show “ran second in its 8 o’clock hour and delivered about half of what ‘Survivor’ averaged in the timeslot earlier this spring,” Variety reports. Worse, the show “finished behind another of [Mark] Burnett’s shows, Fox’s gamer ‘Are You Smarter Than …
Seven years ago tonight, CBS debuted Survivor and changed network television forever. To mark that occasion tonight, CBS debuts a series that seems virtually identical, except it takes place on a pirate ship and its contestants wear pirate costumes. While Pirate Master has perhaps the best name for a reality show ever, its debut at …
Mark Burnett’s summer reality show Pirate Master, which filmed in the Caribbean in March, will debut exactly “seven years to the day that ‘Survivor’ first premiered on CBS,” Variety reports. That’s May 31 at 8 p.m. ET, where it will occupy the timeslot normally reserved for Big Brother‘s results show. Variety says “it’s possible the …
The forthcoming pirate-themed CBS reality series is filming in the Caribbean, and its host is an Australian actor. Cameron Daddo, who has appeared on CSI and other shows, “is in the Caribbean filming the reality TV series,” the Sydney Morning Herald reports. He “is expected to emerge as host of the series.” The paper also …
CBS’ mysterious pirate-themed reality show may have a name other than “CBS’ Pirates Project,” which is how it was known in the casting application. The name is Pirate Master, according to a recent filing. “On January 12, 2007 JMBP, Inc. filed documents with the United States Patent & Tradmark Office (USPTO) to protect the phrase …