Back to the outback!
"Survivor: The Australian Outback" has toned bodies, icky bugs and a landscape littered with kangaroos. Can the sequel measure up to the original?
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"Survivor," the surprise reality TV hit of 2000, returns this year for a new 13-week season. Again, 16 people will endure a grueling stint in a remote locale, voting one contestant off the show each week until a showdown finale that sends one player home with $1 million.
This time, the setting is the Australian outback. Will the players learn from the ruthless scheming of Richard Hatch, the winner of "Survivor 1"? Or will the over-strategizers be kicked off early, with the nice guys (and girls) finishing first?
Look for an update published here each Friday morning. In the meantime, check out:
"Boot camp" -- the complete guide
16 raw recruits! Four rough-and-tough drill sergeants! Shouted orders! Preposterous rhymes!
"Temptation Island" -- the episode-by episode guide
Babealicious women! Hunkariffic guys! Doomed couples!
"The Mole," episode by episode
What if they put on a reality show and no one cared? A complete guide to the most confusing and pointless reality show yet!
"Survivor," complete
Barfing! Backbiting! Richard's big white ass! An episode-by-episode guide to the Darwinian high jinks of CBS's island castaways -- right up to the surprising conclusion.
"Big Brother" -- the complete story
Jordan the ho! Eddie the good son! Curtis the cipher! Episode by episode, a complete guide to the antics of Mega, Karen and Brittany the cuddle slut.
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"Survivor: The Australian Outback," complete:
Aftermath: Colby's Choice Who would have thought that a dumb reality TV show would have produced a moral exemplar for our times?
The final episode: I, Tina! Colby: "It is a far, far, better thing I do!" Plus: Probst ex machina!
Episode 14: Look back in hunger Survivors say: You can be too thin! Plus: A surprise guest
Episode 13: The crying game It's a three-hankie night. Plus: Fire -- the TV of the outback!
Episode 12: Surf's up! Floods, famine and Colby: The Barrumundi face a Bible's worth of troubles.
Episode 11: Bathroom secrets of the outback Everything you didn't want to know about survivor digestion! Plus: Jeff Probst makes a deal.
Plus: Colby's Great Coral Caper! Aussies angered over on-camera eco-crime
Episode 10: Didgeridon't! Jerri and Colby's big day out: "It was like a honeymoon -- without the sex!" Plus: A hell of a tribal council.
Episode 9: When we were very young! The top 10 things we learned in the "Survivor" recap episode
Episode 8: Of boomerangs and betrayal! Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Tribal Council ...
Episode 7: Tie that kangaroo down, Colby! It's date night in the outback, and the boys are excited!
Episode 6: The outback bites back! Jerri wants chocolate and sex -- in that order; and, at Kucha, a trial by fire!
Episode 5: Marsupial madness! Kimmi takes a bath -- finally! Plus: Jerri licks her wounds
Episode 4: The silence of the wallabies "Mommy, how do you make pork chops?"
Episode 3: The dingoes of war Colby to Jerri: I want to 'roo you!
Episode 2: Lord of the dingoes In the outback, no one can you scream!
Plus: "Friends." "Survivor." "Thunderdome." In crazed duel with NBC, CBS rips hole in fabric of universe!
Episode 1: The return of "Survivor" Hunger! Scheming! Barfing! Why, it's just like old times!