The evidence for a Survivor Celebrity Edition in the horizon is starting to mount. Will it happen, and if it’s great for the show, are two separate factors.
Jeff Probst has made friends in the entertainment industry. It comes as part of the territory when you’re constantly at award shows, press junkets, CBS showcases, and run your own talk show. As such, he’s had plenty of people come up to him and show interest in participating in a Survivor Celebrity Edition season, or even suggest ideas for overpowered idols that helped one recent Survivor Game Changers boot win Survivor Cagayan.
With a roster of celebrities he can call up, Jeff Probst may be able to use some Survivor skills by planting seeds of information in celebrities’ heads, trying to get them interested in a potential Survivor Celebrity Edition. He’s suggested that this idea isn’t dead, despite being in the tank for a few years, and now we’re hearing a lot more people bring it up throughout the media.
The Lord of the Rings and Lost actor, Dominic Monaghan was recently on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where the two talked about how Monaghan would participate in Survivor Celebrity Edition. Interestingly enough, he mentioned Jeff Probst as Executive Producer first, host second, noting that Probst has been “trying to put together a list of celebrities, if you will,” hoping they will participate.
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Monaghan remarks that it is celebrities and athletes that Probst is interested in, mentioning Neil Patrick Harris by name, before inviting Monaghan himself. Of course, getting the schedules together for 39 days seems impossible, so he mentions that it may not even be possible to do properly.
It’s this reignited spark in Survivor Celebrity Edition that reminds me of Dave Navarro’s out-of-the-blue tweet about Survivor China and Survivor Heroes vs. Villains player Courtney Yates, remarking in a Flashback Friday tweet that the only way he’s playing Survivor is on a Blood vs. Water season.
He’s brought it up before, but to me, it suggests that Jeff Probst is looking into this idea in actual seriousness into the near future. From what seems to be out there, Survivor Season 35 and Survivor Season 36 are completely newbie seasons, with the possible last-minute exception to bring back two or more returning players. If Survivor Celebrity Edition does happen, it would likely air closer to the end of the decade.
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I’m with Monaghan on this; the show is built to last 39 days. There are few legitimate celebrities or former athletes that; A) Can commit to that amount of time; B) Are willing to subject themselves to disease, injury, and starvation; C) Are relevant enough to be considered a true “celebrity.”
My biggest fear is that a Survivor Celebrity Edition season is a week long with vote-offs every night. That format won’t allow the castaways to create social links or get settled at camp. Hell, they may not even have to build a camp if it’s just a week long, as that would take up too much time!
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If Jeff Probst can find 18 celebrities that can make a full season work, then I’m all for it. Hell, I’d even take a 21-24-day season if that means Neil Patrick Harris would be on an island playing Survivor with or against Charlie from Lost.