Ten reveals lineup for 2019 season of Australian Survivor
After much online speculation, Ten has released some of the lineup for the 2019 season of Australian Survivor.
The new season will bring back 2018’s format of Champions vs Contenders, seeing everyday Australians taking on sporting legends and business leaders.
The new Champions team will include NRL legend Andrew Ettingshausen, who played 328 games for the Cronulla Sharks over 18 years and was awarded the Dally M Centre of Year in 1994 and 1996, and Janine Allis, founder of Boost Juice and panel member on Ten’s Shark Tank.
Ross Clarke-Jones, a big wave surfer known as ‘Mad Dog’, Olympic gold medallist Steven Bradbury, and marathon swimmer Susie Maroney are also taking part.
Last year saw swimmer Shane Gould take home the final prize, making her the oldest contestant to win a Survivor season in any country.
Ten also named some of the contenders who will be taking part in the series. John Eastoe, a gold miner from WA, Matty Farrelly, a high school teacher and pro wrestler, and Sarah Ayles, a cleaner who survived the Sri Lankan Boxing Day tsunami, will form some of the team who take on the champions in Fiji.
Boost founder Janine Allis (Photo – Nigel Wright)
This is the fourth season of the latest version of Australian Survivor, hosted by Jonathan La Paglia and made for Ten by Endemol Shine.
The first Australian version of the show aired in 2002 on Nine and was a contractual obligation for the broadcast of American Survivor. However, it was not renewed due to low ratings and criticism over poor production values.
In 2006, Seven took a run at the franchise, thanks to a loophole in the Nine contract which allowed it to film a celebrity version of the show. It was hosted by Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson and featured politician David Oldfield, model Imogen Bailey and surf lifesaving champion Guy Leech, who won. It was not renewed for a second season.
Ten announced in 2015 at its upfronts it would be bringing the show back for the last quarter of 2016. The final of the first season saw 1.082m metro viewers tune in, beating The Block. Last year’s finale drew 877,000 metro viewers.
Am an absolute addict. Love the American version but Australian one so much better due to exposure of contestants. One series per year insufficient. Bring on the show and stop teasing us with ads. Congrats. Expect you to take out the Logies
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The use of these “celebrities” as an obvious ploy to get viewers is, in my opinion, a total disrespect to the game. It’s a great game, it does not need, nor does it benefit in anyway, from having these people being in there instead of some other regular every-day survivor fan. Have some faith in the format that has worked in the US for 15+ years…stop perpetuation this ridiculous celebrity fixation. It’s a skid-mark on the underpants of the game.
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I adore Survivor and really look forward to watching it, but why does 10 put it on so late on a week night. I fell asleep twice last time and missed episodes. I am sure I am not the only person who works full time and am too tired to stay up.
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Jeff Demamp i’m with you, i can’t think of anything worse than another rich celebrity winning Survivor. Imagine if Janine won it, will she buy a new pair of shoes or a new necklace with the pocket change?
By all means let the celebs apply but an entire team of celebs talking about how successful they are is just too much.
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“Have faith in the format” is great advice. I’d add to your idea of dropping celebrities, with: tell the editors to do their job by not including ten minutes of “Jon’s chit chat” before every challenge and by trimming the show to 45 minutes, and by including a challenge in the first few minutes of each episode. That’s what the US show does; that’s what the Aussie show should do.
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Im going to do a podcast of the Australian Survivor show , once a week . Anyone want to join in ? All you will need is a microphone , computer and the internet . Each podcast will talk about that weeks episodes . Ive never done a tv show before , just some music and football pods . Should be fun though . Email me if you are interested . Im in Victoria but we will do it online so any state in australia is fine . Only restriction is that you have watched survivor before , hopefully American Survivor seasons as well because no doubt there will be some talk in comparing the shows .
Podcast experience isnt an issue . The idea is to do a fun podcast and not take things too seriously , but we will talk about all the issues and situations that arise .
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I watch every single episode hate to miss a show. But the Australian format with celebrity contestants is a big wast of time. You can’t fix something that’s not broken please go back to the original format as I won’t watch this and I know a lot of people that won’t watch it
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I’d be up for helping with a survivor podcast!
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I agree 100 percent we are sick and tired of celebrity shows, everyone I know likes to watch the the TV reality shows to watch real people, and not to watch celebrities. Please don’t take the viewing public for granted. I want to watch ordinary folks like myself give us a go.
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Can some one advise me when the first episode is on please. Can’t find it anywhere.
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Can 10 Play post the dates they are airing for 2019 Australian Survivor, By The Way… my vote goes to Luke Toki (king of the jungle) for the win!
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