Jiffy Gives The Scoop on Survivor

Our very own Jeff "Jiffy" Probst gives us his take on Survivor China and the contestants:

Survivor's upcoming fifteenth season is going where no major American television show has filmed before.
"What does China bring? Culture. We've been in the South Pacific for quite a while and in all areas, China was exciting from a creative point of view," Survivor: China host Jeff Probst told reporters during a Wednesday conference call. "It gave us different things to draw on, different inspirations in terms of challenges, and it gave us a different visual pallet to work with, different colors. This culture that dates back 5,000 years gives you so much to drawn from, we really had a fresh season. Survivor looks different again... For several seasons in a row its visually looked somewhat the same: palm trees and coconuts. We have bamboo and temples this time. I think you'll feel the difference."

One of those differences is that Survivor: China will not feature an Exile Island concept. Instead, the tribe that wins each Reward Challenge will be allowed to "kidnap" a member of the losing tribe. The kidnapped tribe member will remain with the other tribe until the next Immunity Challenge, at which time they will re-join their original tribe. "I think it worked better. The problem we had with Exile Island -- and not to say it won't come back, but if it does, we will hopefully do it in a different form -- but the problem with Exile Island is you only have one person on the island, and it's sort of basic reality, basic storytelling," said Probst. "We struggled with finding ways to make Exile work, where we were just having a guy sort of talk to himself when he's very much aware we're there with the camera. So we set-up Exile and we have to go to it, but we never really could pay it off." Probst added producers decided to try the "kidnapping" concept instead, and said it "really worked."

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