Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and FBI Director James Comey to be featured in CBS reality TV show ‘SURVIVOR.’
Sixteen or more players, split between two or more “tribes”, are taken to a remote isolated location (usually in a tropical climate) and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for 39 days. Frequent physical and mental challenges are used to pit the teams against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their tribe mates.
Once about half the players are remaining, the tribes are merged into a single tribe, and competitions are on an individual basis; winning immunity prevents that player from being voted out. Most players that are voted out at this stage form the game’s “jury”. Once down to two or three people, a final Tribal Council is held where the remaining players plead their case to the jury members. The jury then votes for which player should be considered the “Sole Survivor” and win the show’s grand prize. In all seasons for the United States version, this has included a $1 million prize in addition to the Sole Survivor title; some seasons (particularly earlier seasons) have included additional prizes, such as a car.
The U.S. ‘Washington D.C.’ version has introduced numerous modifications, or “twists”, on the core rules in order to keep the players on their toes and to prevent players from relying on strategies that succeeded in prior seasons. These changes have included tribal switches, miscommunication, back-stabbing, Russian hack, laundered money, bribes, lies, beat-downs and death defying packs of hyenas.
The season starting with more than two tribes, the ability to exile a player from a tribe for a short time, hidden immunity idols that players can use to save themselves at Tribal Council, special voting powers which can be used to influence the result at Tribal Council and a chance to return to regular gameplay after elimination through the “Redemption Island” or “The Outcast Tribe” twists