This looks like a good place to stick it.....
What would ya do for a million dollars?
From the Thursday edition of USA Today, LIFE section, bottom of front page: "CBS to maroon 16 potential millionaires on isle".
CBS wants to make a millionaire out of a lone survivalist in a 13-episode series planned for next summer.
Survivor is part voyeuristic reality show, part game, part adventure series---MTV's The Real World crossed with Lord of the Flies, with a dash of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Today, producers will begin seeking 16 contestants from across the country. They will be flown to Borneo in the spring and marooned for 39 days on Pulau Tiga, and uninhabited , tropical-rain-forest island, with little more than the clothes on their backs.
Once there, they'll be forced to create their own cooperative society, performing such tasks as building shelters, collecting food and engaging in carefully planned contests. In exchange, they'll win simple yet priceless comforts: pillows, soft drinks and the like.
The contestant will be followed constantly by 10 camera crews and joined by indigenous species, including 6-foot monitor lizards and wild macaques, which tend to steal food.
But Survivor is less a physical endurance contest than a sociological experiment. At the end of each hour-long episode (covering three days), the group will hold "tribal councils" and vote to expel one member, who'll promptly be exiled from the island. This process of humiliation will go on until two remain; those previously ousted then choose which of the two wins the $1 million.
"The entire winning and losing is nothing but group dynamics," producer Mark Burnett says. Contestants will have to decide whether to share their rewards or risk alienating those who can vote against them. "Everything is designed to create tention in the group. It's really like a human experiment in some ways."
(Skipping two paragraphs to the end) Applications will be available at www.cbs.com Entrants must be U.S. citizens and residents and at least 21 years old.
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Interesting idea, IMO.
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