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Survivor promos give away too much episode info? Jeff Probst agrees.

ByDaniel George|
Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Entertainment ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Entertainment ©2019 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

After the Survivor: Island of the Idols episode 2 promo gave away who visited the mentors, Jeff Probst took to Twitter to provide support for spoiler complaints.

This post will discuss aSurvivor: Island of the Idolsepisode 2 promo that gives away who goes to the titular island.

Late last week,it was revealed in commercialsthat Kellee Kim was the name Elizabeth Beisel supposedly picked to compete in the next Island of the Idols challenge. Even before that,during the actual premiere episode, in the US, a brief snippet of the Lairo tribe lighting their torches at Tribal Council outright showed who lost the Immunity Challenge before it even appeared.

There’s a long history ofSurvivorpromos, press photo materials, and other marketing assets giving away spoilers for episodes, although it’s been especially egregious withIsland of the Idolsbecause of how much information was given away right off the bat with so little knowledge of the castaways. It gotJeff Probst talking ahead of tonight’s second episodeof the season, sharing your frustrations.

To those of you frustrated by the#survivorspoilers in the promos... I have to admit I too find it mind numbing. And it pains me to have join in your complaints against@survivorcbsbut I am...

— Jeff Probst (@JeffProbst)October 2, 2019

In no uncertain terms, Jeff Probst echoed “frustrated” fans who felt the promos gave away spoilers, saying, “I, too, find it mind numbing [sic].” He even went as far as to join in the complaints levied against his own show, which shows that he isn’t the powerful, all-encompassing entity that moves and shakes the way promotion forSurvivorperforms quite like fans pretend he is.

Despite being on the air 20 years we still have not earned the right to approve our own promo spots. The purpose of a promo is to entice you to watch without giving away what it is we want you to watch. We have no say in that...

— Jeff Probst (@JeffProbst)October 2, 2019

I encourage you to continue complaining in the hopes they will finally submit. But spoilers notwithstanding, tonight's#SURVIVORepisode is GREAT! Super fun! Enjoy!

— Jeff Probst (@JeffProbst)October 2, 2019

Follow-up tweets showed Jeff encouraging people to continue speaking up when it comes to complaints in hopes “they will finally submit.” However, we don’t exactly have a good idea who “they” is, which might result in people on Twitter and Facebook complaining to the social media manager(s) for the show instead of levying complaints directly to the show.

Unfortunately, it also goes against Jeff Probst’s own view of theSurvivorintro, which has infamously been done away with in season 39for the first time in almost two decades. I wonder what his thoughts on the #SaveTheSurvivorIntro campaign are, and if fans should keep levying complaints in that regard, too.

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