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Next Survivor promises to be quite interesting. As a side note-- While they were filming on the island of Vanua Levu on Fiji -- there was a military coup just 30 minutes away in the capitol city of Suva. Fortunately, it was a bloodless coup. Things were touch and go for a while as the Survivor crew was getting all of its food supplies (they have 350 crew) from that city. They also had to pull some of it's production staff out of the city. But, filming has wrapped, and this incident gives new meaning to "the show must go on."
Jeff Probst e-mailed Entertainment Weekly this statement:
"To be shooting Survivor while the host country is in the midst of a coup is a bit surreal for all of us here in Fiji. We have set up our satellite TV in the catering area [for producers and crew members only] and during dinner the entire crew watches the local news to get updates on what is happening.
"Fortunately, we are on another island that is a 30-minute flight away from the capital city of Suva where the coup is centered. Everyone here is safe and the disruptions thus far have been minimal. We had a few production staff stationed in Suva that we brought back to base camp, and during the past week any crew members that were scheduled to fly to location were unable to due to flight cancellations. Otherwise, we have continued filming without interruption."
So.. what to expect? This time around, there will be 19 survivors. There will be not one, but two HII's... and in their social experimentation-- there will be one tribe that lives in luxury and the other with nothing.
Survivor 14 is set to debut in February.
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