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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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