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Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night— nor the occasional crashing wave in the South Pacific—has stopped Jeff Probst from presiding over every Survivor episode. (That’s roughly 600 torch snuffs in 21 years, for those keeping score.) And yet, the 59-year-old host and executive producer proclaims that Survivor 41 was one of his favorite shoots “in a very long time.” He filled us in from Fiji about the upcoming “reimagined” season.
When we last saw you in May 2020, you were reading Winnersat War Tribal Council votes from your garage in Hawaii. Any worries about the future of the show at that point?
JP: Making the decision to postpone Survivor 41 was tough, mainly because of the impact it had on our crew. We were taking away their ability to provide for their families. But I never, ever doubted we would be back. In fact, once we accepted that we would have to wait until March 2021 to shoot again, we took the time as an opportunity to step back from the show and look at it with fresh eyes.
And what did you conclude?
JP: It was actually Mike White, a former player [in David vs. Goliath] and one of the best writers I’ve ever met, who pointed me in the right direction. I was in my garage with a whiteboard full of ideas and called Mike to pitch him. He listened politely and then asked me a very simple question: “Is it fun?” I said, “I gotta go” and hung up. I couldn’t erase the board fast enough. From that point forward, every idea was put through the “Is it fun?” filter.
This story is from the September/October 2021 edition of CBS Watch! Magazine.
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