Survivor

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Survivor TV Show

A reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The lone survivor of this contest takes home a million dollars.

How Survivor Works:

          Survivor has been around for a long time and has a lot of twists to its regular format. Below are guidelines to how Survivor most often works. Sixteen competitors are broken into two teams, called tribes. Each team of eight is taken to separate locations within the same area, usually an island. Tribes must build shelter, build fire, and find their water source.

          Twice every three days, the tribes meet for challenges. Some challenges are physical and some are mental, many are both. There are two types of challenges. Reward Challenges gain the winning tribe a reward, which may include food; equipment for fishing or for their shelter; or a visit, letter, or video from loved ones.

Jeff Probst (Host)

          Immunity Challenges keep the winning tribe safe. The losing tribe must hike to Tribal Council where they meet with the host and answer questions about what has been going on around camp. Each member of the tribe than casts a secret vote to oust a fellow tribe mate.

        Once everyone has voted, the host tallies the votes, then shares them with the tribe. The person with the most votes must leave the Tribal Council area immediately. The rest of the tribe makes the hike back to camp.

     About halfway through the season, the two tribes merge into one. The entire tribe makes the hike to each Tribal Council. Reward and Immunity Challenges become individual. Usually the winner of the reward challenge is allowed one or two people to share the reward with.

          The winner of the Immunity Challenge can keep his or her immunity at Tribal Council, or may give their immunity to someone else. When nine people are left in the game, the people who are voted off at each Tribal Council begin to make up the jury. They leave the camp, but they return to listen in on each Tribal Council. When only two players remain, they come to Tribal Council to face the seven member jury. The final two state their reasons why they should win. The jury is then allowed to ask them questions. The final two make closing comments and then the jury votes for who should win the title of Sole Survivor.

       The contestants are then allowed to leave the island. The votes are sealed and revealed during a live show, where the Sole Survivor is awarded $1 million.

 

Survivor Locations

• Season 1: Borneo
• Season 2: The Australian Outback
• Season 3: Africa
• Season 4: Marquesas
• Season 5: Thailand
• Season 6: The Amazon
• Season 7: Pearl Islands
• Season 8: Pearl Islands (All-Stars)
• Season 9: Vanuatu
• Season 10: Palau
• Season 11: Guatemala, The Mayan Ruins
• Season 12: Panama
• Season 13: Cook Islands
• Season 14: Fiji
• Season 15: China
• Season 16: Micronesia  (Fans vs. Favorites)
• Season 17: Gabon
• Season 18: Tocantins
• Season 19: Samoa
• Season 20: Samoa (Heroes vs. Villains)
• Season 21: Nicaragua
• Season 22: Nicaragua (Redemption Island)
• Season 23: Samoa
• Season 24: Samoa (One World)
• Season 25: Caramoan Island, Philippines 
• Season 26: Caramoan Island, Philippines
• Season 27: Cagayan, Phillippines (Blood vs. Water)
• Season 28: Cagayan, Phillippines
• Season 29: Nicaragua
• Season 30: Nicaragua (World's Apart)

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Wipeout

Show Summary

    Jill Wagner, John Henson, and John Anderson host Wipeout, a show in which 24 contestants compete against each other and the clock in hopes of winning the $50,000 prize. In the Qualifier Round, all 24 contestants must complete a course consisting of four obstacles. The twelve contestants with the fastest times advance to the second round. In this round, the top 12 face the Sweeper. 

    The six who last the longest on the Sweeper, move to the third round and the last person standing receives a $1000 bonus. In the third round, the remaining six contestants face an obstacle, such as the Dreadmill or Dizzy Dummy. Two contestants are eliminated during this round and the remaining four contestants advance to the final round, The Wipeout Zone. The final four must complete four obstacles in the Zone. The contestant with the fastest time wins the $50,000 prize.

         Wipeout is a game show series in which contestants compete in what was billed as the "world's largest obstacle course". Wipeout is hosted and commentated by John Henson and John Anderson, while Jill Wagner acts as the "on-location" presenter. 

     The show aired on ABC from June 24, 2008 to September 7, 2014. The interim presenter for one season was Vanessa Lachey. The creators and executive producers are Matt Kunitz and Scott Larsen. Distribution of the show is handled by Endemol USA. The show was taped at Sable Ranch in Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.

History

         Wipeout is similar to Takeshi's Castle, 1986 to 1990, Tokyo Japan TV game show , a competition featuring obstacle courses. The series premiered on June 24, 2008, on ABC. After the pilot was shot, co-host Elon Gold was replaced. 

      Producers called in Michael Glazer to find a "comic host replacement" that eventually went to John Henson. The first season's success spawned a series of international versions of Wipeout, debuting in countries including the United Kingdom and Argentina in January 2009.

          On December 8, 2008, ABC announced plans to counter-program NBC's Super Bowl game-day telecasts with a sports-star-studded episode of Wipeout, entitled "Wipeout Bowl". The episode was broadcast immediately following the game. The episode featured female cheerleaders competing against male "couch potato" sports fans. During the hour-long special, Monica Kauffman became the show's first female competitor to win. Following the episode, an announcement was made that a second season had been commissioned, and a promo for the season was subsequently broadcast.

        The second season was broadcast during the summer of 2009. According to TV Week, in 2009 Wipeout became the third most popular game show in the world, based on ratings. On July 22, 2009, Wipeout was renewed for a third season, for which filming began in September 2009.


        The third season of the show premiered on June 22, 2010, with a special two-hour "Blind Date" episode preluding the series on June 1. ABC subsequently announced that other themed episodes would appear in Season 3, including episodes featuring ladies only and families. The third-season finale aired on September 14, 2010, with a special "America's Finest Edition", featuring some of America's heroes, including firefighters and policemen.

        On August 15, 2010, ABC announced that the show had been contracted for a fourth season. The announcement added: "Wipeout has the distinction of being the only broadcast reality series launched in recent years that has demonstrated proven staying power." On October 13, 2010, ABC announced plans that the fourth season would be split into three sections Winter, Spring, and Summer; with a total of 32 episodes: 8 Winter episodes, 7 Spring episodes and 17 Summer episodes. The fourth season premiered on January 6, 2011.

       On June 16, 2011, ABC announced that the show had been renewed for a fifth season, and that Vanessa Lachey would replace co-host Jill Wagner on the show. New episodes of Winter Wipeout began on December 8, 2011, with a Christmas special episode, entitled Winter Wipeout: Deck the Balls. That same year, Syndicated reruns of Wipeout aired on truTV and TBS.

         On August 29, 2012, Wipeout was picked up for a sixth season. In addition, it was announced that former co-host Jill Wagner would be returning to the series after a season-long absence. John Anderson and John Henson, also returning as hosts.

          On August 30, 2012, Activision released the mobile App Wipeout game for iOS. It quickly became the top-selling app in the App Store.

         On May 9, 2013, season six premiered. In its sixth season, Wipeout celebrated its 100th episode.

    On January 22, 2014, Wipeout was renewed for a seventh season. For the first time, winners from each episode will be brought together for a "Tournament of Champions" at the end of the season to compete for the title of Ultimate Wipeout Champion.

   On June 22, 2014, the seventh season began, with new episodes airing on Sundays. Season Seven ended on September 7, 2014.

       Wipeout appeared to have been renewed for an eighth season in a new version named Wipeout Extreme however, by the summer of 2015, ABC had quietly canceled the show and removed it from the ABC website.

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Past Present and Future

Deal Or No Deal

      True Entertainment was founded in 2000 by Steven Weinstock and Glenda Hersh.  Focusing on documentary and alternative programming, True Entertainment uses powerful storytelling to bring real stories about real people to television audiences around the world. In 2003, True merged with Endemol, the international production giant and creator of such global television phenomena as Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Big Brother and Fear Factor. The alliance with Endemol greatly expands True’s international reach. 

      Whether they’re following a group of headstrong women in Atlanta, showcasing the miracle of childbirth, or going behind-the-scenes with Oprah Winfrey herself, True Entertainment transcends the limits of genre.  Though the subjects vary, each series True produces bears the hallmark of what it means to be a True Entertainment production: quality storytelling. 

         NBC, MTV, Bravo, TLC, OWN, Discovery, HGTV, The Style Network, Logo, A&E True has worked with and remains well-respected by many different networks.  

          And they have the accolades to show for it: In 2003 and 2006, True won an Emmy Award for A Baby Story. The series was also nominated for Emmys in 2004, 2005 and 2007. True also earned a 2003 nomination for 110 Stories and an Emmy and three nominations for Trauma: Life in the ER.

 

         In the world of science fiction movies, every piece of technology knows our name, face, and what we like, and is able to communicate seamlessly with its user. While this may seem like a distant reality, the way we consume and interact with our technology is in fact rapidly evolving. In particular, entertainment is becoming so integrated into our daily lives that it can be accessed on-demand whenever and wherever we want it. Futurist Ray Kurzweil proposes that rather than living side by side with technology, we are evolving with it. To this end, we are currently seeing a dramatic shift in the way people consume and interact with digital entertainment.

         In collaboration with the minds behind The Curve Report from NBCUniversal, PSFK wanted to investigate the evolution of entertainment and look at how today’s consumers are paving the way for entirely new forms of digital interaction.

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The Year 2000

The Entertainment Around the World, Ancient and Modern Creations

Beneath the cacophony of exploding fireworks, there was music and dancing around the world on Friday night as entertainers of every stripe, and their fans, set about proving that art, if not eternal (who knows?), at least provides a worthy human tribute to the last, and the next, 1,000 years. 

Yes, there was a disappointment here and there. The Javits Convention Center extravaganza in Manhattan, with the headliners Andrea Bocelli, Aretha Franklin and Sting, was canceled, a casualty of poor ticket sales. And in Jerusalem, a performance of Handel's ''Messiah'' was canceled as well, after a rabbinical ban on public celebrations that would violate the Sabbath. 

          But from the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, where the passage of a millennial moment is old hat (this is the sixth) and 50,000 people attended a new opera by Jean-Michel Jarre, a French composer of New Age electronic music; to the ancient temple at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, where traditional ballet dancers performed in the company of 2,000 prayer-offering Buddhist monks; to Rio de Janeiro, where three million samba dancers packed Copacabana Beach; to Berlin, where 60 bands played on 10 stages for a three-mile-long party that stretched across the once divided city; to Istanbul, where in Taksim Square, the Turkish band Athena rocked the casbah; to Las Vegas, where Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand made diva lovers swoon, the new era clicked over to a sometimes hopeful, sometimes wistful but generally joyful noise. 

In New York, where the 24-hour celebration in Times Square saluted the cultures of the world in hourly performances that reflected the year 2000's incremental arrival around the globe, Billy Joel, a hometown boy (well, O.K, a Long Island boy) rang in the occasion at Madison Square Garden with a nostalgic medley of his best-known pop ballads. 

''I wrote this for my first ex-wife,'' said Mr. Joel, beginning a rendition of ''Just the Way You Are.'' His show infused good times with wry melancholy, including a particularly yearning version of ''New York State of Mind'' and even the dolorous opening measures of Beethoven's ''Moonlight'' Sonata. The fans in the not- quite-full house did not seem to recognize the melancholy, but they took it well and patiently; to every other number, they sang along. 

The atmosphere of pleasant familiarity was repeated, albeit on a smaller scale, in myriad clubs around the city, as it doubtless was in cities everywhere. 

         In Sunnyside, Queens, on a stretch of Queens Boulevard where halal meat markets, Turkish grocers and taquerias sit side by side and the newsstand sells papers in eight languages, Avenging Disco Godfather, a five-piece Celtic rock band, made its weekly appearance at Tailors Hall. In the one-room pub with a roaring fire and a candlelit chandelier, 75 regulars gathered for an Irish new year. The band covered classics by the Beatles and Janis Joplin with a lilting Irish skew. 

Meanwhile, in the distinctly less intimate Florida Everglades, 80,000 people gathered for a midnight-to-dawn concert by the rock band Phish on 500 acres on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, home to a tribe that first had contact with European explorers half a millennium ago. Amid oak, cypress and palm trees, the party included hot-air balloons, two Ferris wheels and a ballet troupe, not to mention a handful of nudists and men on stilts. Many in the crowd had traveled from around the country to hear the band, which has achieved the kind of cult following that once adhered to the Grateful Dead. 

Last summer, the city of Chicago commissioned a millennium line dance, the ''milly,'' sort of a Midwestern macarena, from a local choreographer, Harrison McEldowney. Set to a tune by another Chicagoan, Wade Hubbard, it was danced just before midnight Friday by the 3,500 celebrants at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center for a dinner presided over by Mayor Richard M. Daley. 

After the millennium turned, the milly gave way to a more conventional boogie and in the end, a series of conga lines, with Maggie Daley, the mayor's wife, leading one. 

          In Las Vegas, in the 20th time zone to enter the new year, Barbra Streisand gave a rare performance at the MGM Grand, the same place she last appeared in six years ago, when the hotel opened. Then, an anxious Ms. Streisand took the stage for the first time in 20 years. This time, appearing confident and excited, she sang to a sold-out house of 13,000 people and repeatedly brought them to their feet during the two-and-a-half-hour show. They all carried flashlights they had been given as they entered  in case the power failed, which it didn't. At the stroke of midnight, silver, white and gold confetti dropped in the arena as Ms. Streisand sang her final number  ''People,'' of course. 

Nowhere was there an extravaganza to match ''The Twelve Dreams of the Sun,'' a three-hour song cycle staged as an opera, with more than 1,000 musicians, dancers and singers and based on an ancient Egyptian myth about the daily dusk-to-dawn journey of the sun and the gifts it bestows on humanity during its passage: time, protection, wisdom, eternity, fidelity, memory, courage, space, innocence, celebration, purity and freedom. The anthemic work by Mr. Jarre melded electronic music with Western jazz and Arabic rhythms and melodies, and the music and dancing was augmented by a spectacular laser show against the backdrop of the pyramids and the great Sahara. 

         'I hope the new millennium will witness international understanding,'' Mr. Jarre told the crowd. A sentiment grand and bland, perhaps, but appropriate, no? Somehow, everywhere, grand or grandiose, glorious or gloomy, maudlin or moving, artists rose to the occasion because they had helped define it. That was the case for the lonely practitioner as well as the celebrated star. To wit, Not long before midnight Friday, Donald Green sat at a card table on West Third Street in Manhattan peddling his poems, as he has done almost daily over the last decade. He has bound some of his poems, handwritten, into a volume. He had only 13 of them; well, 12 now. Asked for a millennium poem, he chose ''Hope,'' reprinted here for the first time:

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