Survivor Samoa

A Real World cast member and a Survivor cast member were both up for election yesterday, too, but only one was victorious.

Russell Hantz has firmly denied leaking information about his first two seasons of Survivor, but now the person he leaked to has sold e.mail message evidence to TMZ. TMZ published seven e.mail messages from Russell to Jim Early, which were sent between “hantztankering” (the name of Russell’s company) to “thegamesurvivor” (an alias of Jim Early) …

Russell Hantz has again denied being the person who leaked Survivor Samoa and Survivor Heroes vs. Villains spoilers to Jim Early, aka missyae, saying my report is “100% false” despite evidence to the contrary. That evidence includes e-mail messages he sent to Early. Earlier, Russell posted a denial on Facebook, but later deleted it or …

Mark Burnett’s company quietly sued a Survivor spoiler, who revealed to me that his source was Survivor star cast member Russell Hantz.

One year ago last Tuesday, a tsunami destroyed land and lives in the Pacific Ocean, including the southern part of Samoa, where Survivor Samoa and Survivor Heroes vs. Villains were both filmed. It left hundreds homeless on Samoa, and killed almost 200 people, mostly on that island. Season 20 had just completed filming when it …

In the Emmy competition for outstanding competition reality TV show, each series enters a single episode. That, as succinctly discussed here, is perhaps the primary reasons for The Amazing Race‘s long-time domination. But that, of course, ended this year. While the official Academy nominee list [PDF] does not mention episodes, The Los Angeles Times reported …

Coach became the first member of the Survivor Heroes vs Villains jury a few weeks ago, and that meant the start of the Ponderosa web series, which gave Coach the chance to be the center of the camera’s attention for a few days until Courtney arrived, and gave the producers the chance to add in …