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Probst Talks About Africa Survivor fans should be glad to know that executive producer Mark Burnett's hugely successful CBS show, which recently won the first-ever Emmy Award for a reality series, will serve up two new editions this season. The first gets under way Thursday, Oct. 11, when Survivor Africa begins. Host Jeff Probst again dons atmosphere-appropriate attire to introduce 16 new contestants who will be divided into two "tribes" and face various challenges - natural as well as producer-made - in vying to keep from being voted out of the contest, with the last person left winning $1 million. "The first word that comes to mind about this is 'epic'," Probst says of the latest Survivor edition, which he finished making only a few weeks ago. "We have a lot more of the culture of the place we're at this time, so the 'survivors' were exposed to ways of life that they never would have experienced before. I think that really adds a lot to the adventure. Each 'Survivor' series seems to have its own personality. The first had the 'virgin' group, the second had a huge Mother Nature factor and really hot-looking people, and this is a combination of those two." Merging young players with some not-so-young, the new bunch is deemed by Probst to be "a great, great cast. They really come to life out there. People kept using the phrase 'the birthplace of humanity' when they'd talk to me about Africa, and you really get that once you're there. There's something in the soil and the air that makes you realize you're not in Australia or China. You're definitely in Africa, and in our case, in the middle of a wild-game park." "There's 100,000 acres full of animals there, and the thing we kept reminding the 'survivors' was to please not fall under the false assumption that there was some invisible CBS wall between them and the animals. There wasn't. They needed to have a night sentry and to think about what they would do if they did run into an animal. The first few days, I wasn't sure how seriously they took it: 'Oh, yeah, lions. Sure.'" Nature has Larger Role on Survivor 3 They can't hunt, because Kenyan laws forbids the slaying of animals. The water is so polluted that it can't be consumed without boiling. The animals are lethal, the temperatures brutal. Other than that, the 16 participants in this fall's Survivor: Africa have an easy time of it. Participants in the two previous Survivor series had to contend with nature in one fashion or another, host Jeff Probst told reporters. But not to the extent that contestants in the upcoming series, shot last summer in Kenya, will. "The second Survivor ... had fires, you had floods, storms," Probst says. "This time, nature plays a part because this is Africa. You are, at all times, in danger of being eaten by an animal. You have very little water to draw on, and the food you have -- you'd better take care of, because that's all there is. What we're giving you is it. If you aren't rationing, you are an idiot." One would think that participants in the third Survivor series would have learned something about playing the game from the previous two outings. Not so, according to Probst. "You would think they would (learn), and yet, 45 minutes into this season, I was sitting there saying once again human nature just takes over. You can prep all you want, but when push comes to shove, you react, and your human core starts to become involved. They just can't help themselves. There is no strategy. Richard can talk all he wants to win. He got lucky. Anybody could have won." Survivor III / Ultimate Africa Safaris
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