UK Survivor

Survivor is returning to the UK after more than 20 years, and is now looking for players. But its search is very different than CBS’s search for Survivor 45 players.

UK Survivor concludes tonight. The UK’s Survivor Panama ends tonight with the winner being announced live. Either Susannah Moffat and Jonny Gibb will walk away with £1 million.

UK Survivor contestant asks to be voted off, citing homesickness, flu. The premiere of the UK’s Survivor Panama found 22-year-old Sarah McCombie asking her tribe mates to vote her off because she was homesick and “flu-ridden.” The second season didn’t debut to strong numbers; as BBC News points out, “[m]ore people…watched BBC One’s Ten o’Clock …

UK Survivor returns tonight with fewer cast members and fewer episodes. The UK’s second season of Survivor debuts tonight on ITV. Faced with low ratings its first run, the show has made changes, including lowering the number of contestants from 16 to 12, eliminating the live audience segment, and adding (later in the season) an …

Survivor will return to the UK. Filmed in Panama, the UK’s second edition of Survivor will debut on March 13 on ITV. Changes include only two shows a week, a one-hour episode and a 30-minute follow-up show. Also, the number of contestants has been decreased to 12 from 16, and there will be no studio …

Charlotte wins UK Survivor, which ends with slightly better ratings. On Wednesday, Charlotte Hobrough won £1m when the UK’s Pulua Tiga version of Survivor concluded. The show was seen by just 9 million people, an improvement over the average 7 million–but nothing near the ratings of the UK’s Big Brother, which has seen non-stop media …

low ratings will lead to UK Survivor airing only once a week. Britain’s ITV will likely air Survivor only once a week (instead of two nights a week) because of its extremely low ratings.