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Will 'Survivor' Head to Samoa?

Where: Samoa
March 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM | by cmb | 0 Comments

Survivor, as we all know, is the reality show that just refuses to die. Even though we far prefer Amazing Race, Survivor just keeps on coming back. And there's no stopping it in 2009. If reports are to believe, plans are underway for the show's new season in Samoa.

Stuff.co.nz claims that veteran Samoan journalist, Apulu Lance Polu, revealed in a recent editorial, that Prime Minister Misa Telefoni called media owners to meet "a Caucasian man who claimed to have been a journalist representing an overseas company filming a popular TV reality show on CBS that claimed 100 million TV viewers worldwide."

The man told the gathered journalists that CBS’ advance team would arrive in April and they expected the local media to stay mum about what was happening until CBS made an official announcement about what was presumably "Survivor 19".

This wouldn’t be the first time the show filmed in the South Pacific. Previous locations have included Palau, Fiji, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu and French Polynesia.

It was made clear at the meeting that if word did get out Samoa may lose its shot at being the next coveted "Survivor" location and the 150 jobs that go along with it.

Polu didn’t think it was right to ask Samoa’s media corps to keep quiet so he spilled the beans. "It is like covering a rally where someone in the audience gets up and shoots the main speaker and the journalist covering the event is asked not to write about it as they wait and see if the guy dies or survives”, Polu wrote in his editorial.

There has been no statement from CBS on the Samoa controversy but if any of this is true, it seems Samoa could lose the "Survivor" gig. Remember, loose lips sink reality TV ships.

Related Stories:
· Survivor's next 'secret' location exposed [Stuff]
· Samoa Travel [Official Site]
· Survivor 18 Goes Brazilian [Jaunted]

[Photo: Wikimedia]

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