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Aurora
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11-24-2006
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 10:52 am
LINK LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The next edition of "Survivor" will be filmed in China, making the reality show the first American network TV production to shoot an entire series in the communist nation, trade paper Daily Variety reported on Wednesday. The report did not say when CBS would begin production on the 14th cycle of the castaway saga, or where in China the action would be set. The CBS Corp. unit is airing "Survivor: Fiji," which is averaging about 15.8 million viewers, on par with the viewership for the previous installment, "Survivor: Cook Islands."
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 9:19 pm
MODS!!! Can one of y'all please fix the link above? Good find, Aurora!
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 2:27 pm
I will LOVE a China Survivor.... ...already can't wait!!!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, April 19, 2007 - 2:39 pm
EEEKKKKK!!!! This thread is HUGE!!!! <waves to Kep>
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 9:05 am
From realitytvworld.com (I don't dare to mess up the margin again) According to Daily Variety, next fall's fifteenth Survivor edition will take place in mainland China -- a move that will make the long-running CBS reality series the first American network television series to film entirely in the communist country. #### skip to more Survivor: China Although China's 18,000 kilometer coastline includes thousands of islands, according to Variety, Survivor's fifteenth edition will film in a non-island setting -- a move that would make it the first Survivor edition in four seasons (since 2005's Survivor: Guatemala installment) to not film in a tropical island location. In a separate development that would appear to quash recent rumors that Survivor's next edition might be a second All-Stars edition, Survivor host Jeff Probst has also revealed that semifinalist interviews for Survivor's fifteenth edition took place in Los Angeles this week. "We were in Survivor casting yesterday," Probst told Live with Regis and Kelly co-host Kelly Ripa during a guest co-host appearance on Tuesday's Live broadcast. "I just woke up an hour ago," said Probst as he explained he had just flown to New York via an overnight "red eye" flight from Los Angeles. "We end up with these hundred people and they get flown out to LA and we sit in this hotel room and it's this bizarre process where they're flown out and put in 'lockdown.' [You] can't talk to anybody, it's like prison... or solitary confinement or something -- you get your own hotel room and you get an hour in the gym and an hour for lunch but you can't talk [to anybody else]," Probst told Ripa as he explained Survivor's semifinalist interview process. "It's an amazing experience, it's so fun." ##### End I(Chy) saw JP on Regis Tuesday talking about being loopy since he just got off the Red Eye from LA to NYC. But I didn't hear him say China was the next one. Kelly was such a brat, she had to interrupt and one-up him all over the place! Poor Jeff was never able to share the sweet moment when he first met Julie in her first casting interview. I'm not complaining, but then the show was pre-empted for VT tragedy. But I've asked all over, no one seemed to have caught him on the left side either.
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Chy
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07-19-2003
| Friday, April 20, 2007 - 9:15 am
http://www.realitytvworld.com Jeff Probst reveals Chinese 'Survivor' edition will use an island setting By Steve Rogers, 04/19/2007 Although yesterday's report that Survivor's fifteenth edition will film in China stated that the location would result in the long-running CBS reality show filming its fifteenth season in a non-island setting, that apparently won't be the case. "I can't even pronounce it, I have to find China on the map first," Survivor host Jeff Probst commented when Live with Regis and Kelly co-host Kelly Ripa -- referencing Wednesday's Daily Variety report that Survivor's Fall 2007 edition will film in the communist country -- asked him what part of China the show would be visiting on Thursday's Live broadcast. "When I find it then I'll zero in on the little group of islands we're going to," Probst, serving as a fill-in co-host for regular Live co-host Regis Philbin, continued. As part of its Wednesday report that Survivor's fifteenth edition will film in China, Variety had also reported that although China's 18,000 kilometer coastline includes thousands of islands, the move to China would take the show "away from an island setting" for the first time in several seasons. (Survivor: Guatemala, the show's Fall 2005 eleventh edition, was the most recent Survivor edition to film at an inland location.) During his Thursday morning Live appearance, Probst also urged Survivor viewers to make sure and tune in for tonight's broadcast of Survivor: Fiji's tenth episode. "I will say we have a great episode tonight, a great episode, a great Tribal Council," said Probst. "If you are a Survivor fan, you're going to like tonight's episode [it's] a very good episode [with a] great Tribal Council." ###End He was right, we really like that epi last night. TC and everything! ETA a better link http://www.realitytvworld.com/survivor/
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Chy
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07-19-2003
| Monday, May 14, 2007 - 5:41 pm
What a crappy clip of a preview! I read on Sucks that the report on Survivorskills said it'll be in the province of JiangXi. But what aired were literally "all over the map"! From the much North(The Great Wall) to the South (Lake looked like KweiLin to me). From big city BeiJing to small town-like Temple. I'm not sure, but I want to say Pandas and Tigers might not be in the same Forrest? What was shown in that preview is just like that new Logo, very much a feel of a Chinese restaurant style to please customers.
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Chy
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07-19-2003
| Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 7:23 pm
Chatters are pointing to Po Yang Hu and/or Lu Shan in the province of Jiang Xi. I found some tourist's pix, didn't want to just share with other boards. http://www.danny-ng.com/images/china/jiangxi/lushan/lushan.html
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 6:20 pm
Vern told us on Sucks a while back that Zhe Ling Hu was closed to the public... and he's right! So, not Po Yang Lake but Zhe Ling Lake which is still by LuShan -- the sacred mountain JP talked about. This Chinese reporter wrote about it on a site that's devoted to American TV shows: http://www.meijumi.com/article.asp?id=878 I know that's in Chinese, but trust me! Remember that's my mother-tongue. Since no one else here --which is closer to my heart-- wants to talk about Survivor: China, I've been doing it on Sucks. The Survivor 15+ "page"(Is that how to call it?). Those posters are very civil until conversing about the rumored contestant from WWE: Ashley Massaro

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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 6:36 pm
This link has more articles. http://www.meijumi.com/default.asp IF any one else is interested, I could post the links for you to see the possible sceneries (from a gov. ran site) as I do so for other sites.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 3:01 pm
That would be cool Chy, I would love to see the scenery!
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 3:43 pm
Dipo, look into the link I posted up thread while I go and find others in between cooking. (May 19, 07. Danny Ng's link of Lu Shan, the sacred mountain JP mentioned. These were done in 2003 from a travel agent's site. The lake in that bunch is not Zhe Ling. I'll be back.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 5:38 pm
Just realize the link (6:36) I gave yesterday is a live one. Forever adding new ones they are. http://www.yongxiu.gov.cn/palyadmin.aspx?id=1&name=×ß½øèÏÁÖºþ This is a 10 minute plus promote video put out by the Yong Xiu County for tourists . It's called: Into the Zhe Ling Hu(lake). It is V-e-r-y- S-l-o-w!! to DL. VG is going to put up vid caps on her Survivor Phoenix site. The Zhe Ling today is a man made lake. I don't know the technical word, but it was "made" when the they flooded the Three Great Gorges with the water from Yang Tze in order to build the biggest, most needed Dam. I'm one of those on the fence about the Dam, a little bitter sweet to see the scenery. We know the game will not be played around so much concretes. But not to worry, they call themselves the Thousand-Lake -Area since there are 996(some say 997) islands all together. If you have the patience to wade through that vid, you'd find beautiful water falls, lake, rocks, Alligators, even JELLY FISH!
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 6:02 pm
http://www.yongxiu.gov.cn/imgclass.aspx?ID=11 http://www.yongxiu.gov.cn/imgclass.aspx?ID=6 Link http://gis.jxjt.gov.cn/pdet?id=1204367890 The second one is more like Po Yang Lake. Third is a map and info of Zhe Ling Area. Fourth is enlargement of third. I trust the mods would help me should I busted the seams again?!?
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 8:39 pm
Chy, is this going to be in the southern part of China or closer to the central? I've been on the Yang Tze about 8 years ago and stood on part of the dam as it was being built. I loved, loved, loved China and hope to go back. This will be a beautiful location.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 8:57 pm
Chy, keep on posting!! I know China is close to your heart, but because it's close to yours, it's close to ours, too. And how cool that you can give us all this insider info (even if some of it is in Chinese! <grin>).
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 10:36 pm
Keep posting Chy......I'm listening!!!! 
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:59 pm
Thanks for listening(Eeyor) and reading(Dipo, Cosat $ Csong)! For a while I thought I was talking to myself there. Csong, I'm going to try to give you the link from Google maps, but it is near NanChang, Jiang Xi.(NW of Nanchang) I'll say JX province is in the South East China. But Lu Shan is in the NW part of the province JX. BTW, I'm jealous that you did get to see the Gorge before it was flooded "for the greater good". Never mind, that link is way too long! Just type NanChang on Google Maps. Or go to Dan & Wezzie's site click on Survivor 15) http://www.claycritters.com/map/survivormaps.htm My English was in a tangent again. I meant to say that, this site, this board, was closer to my heart. I rather share here than any other foreign boards. But as you can see, I have been the only poster in the whole TVCH talking about Survivor: China since April 20th!! I ended up posting up a storm with encouragements(no flames, would you believe it?)on Sucks board in the Survivor 15+ area. But thank you for the kind words never the less ! There's a good number of Sucks posters who are bi-lingual like myself. Most of them are State-side like myself. They are either Singaporean, HK Chinese or Malaysian Chinese. You can read our banters on "Gross food challenge" or little disagreements on the precise meaning of some broken word/phrase shown in the preview in "S15, Survivor:China Logo". (I win of course, I did almost wanted to majir in Chinese at one time.) One poster there is a HS boy from the province of QuanDong is planing on a trip to Zhe Ling Aug. 2nd since they're supposedly filming between June 25th and Aug. 1st roughly. In fact, he(Vern) is the first one who told us about the fact that Zhe Ling was closed to the public while all were still trying to figure out which lake and which bunch of little islands... QuangDong is what we(non-red Chinese) used to call Canton. It is directly south of JX(we used to call it Chinag Shee, confusing enough?). Vern asked among his friends in JX in order to find that bit of info ... http://www.danny-ng.com/images/china/jiangxi/nanchang/dscn027.html I can't find the page, but VG or some one has proof (matching vidcaps) that this "Bell" was in the preview played on the finale of S14. Costa, I was totally thinking about you when I viewed a vid centered around an old temple and Monks. It's too late now, I still have to make 2lb. of Lo main for a Pot Luck after singing/playing in the Church tomorrow. But now that I know y'all are interested, I'll be back. I'll bury you with TMI! 
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:35 am
http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog/ This is a blog by a Canadian Ryan M living in SuZhou. He has a Chinese wife, teaching English and learning Chinese there. He probably does some PC business also, I'm not sure. I put the link of his home page up only because the page I have in mind has a huge link again. He blogged about Survivor: China on April 19th. Very interesting read. I tried to engage him to chat more about Survivor, but he won't bite. He'd only talk to me on the other page about his wife's B-day and PC stuff.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:48 am
ChynS Registered user Posts: 372 (6/14/07 1:04 pm) Just read from the blogger in SuZhou that his site is "UTF-8 encoded" which enables any foreign writing system. Way cool for me, even though I don't know what the devil a "UTF-8" is! I just checked and realized that I did install something to read "Traditional Chinese". That's why some of those simplified Chinese show up as empty blocks when I read any Chinese site not doing gif. About the nineteen "Recommended Hot Spots" --translation from the red ink atop -- BTW, English grammar be d@mned, I'm doing word for word, close as possible. 1. General's Island Great South Gate (Can't remember any famous general from the area) 2. Dripping Water Cave (Lime stone? maybe) 3. Native Customs Culture Village (we'll see that non too soon) 4. ZheLing Hu Water Dam (Lake: Forest made of stones/rocks) 5. Secret Treasure Island (bet we'll see that also) 6. Six corners/horns point (in the article they are calling this Deer Horn Point. Makes sense to me looking at the shape of the island.) 7. Sea Dusk sowing/embroidering (w/ needle & threads) Area Entrance (help, Vern!!) 8. Sea Dusk sowing/embroidering (w/ needle & threads) Area Exit(could be Jelly Fish!) 9. Strange/Curious Peaks/Ridges Amusement Park 10. Dragon Mountain(Hill?) 11. Lock Island (Water Lock?) 12. Hundreds Birds Island 13. Golden Monkey Island 14. Croc/Alligator Island 15. Water Parking (on) Lian Mountain(This is a term for the Chinese pirates in the classic novel about 108 heroes who helped overturn the Mongolian ruling, I think) 16. Plum Blossom Island 17. Clear Water Mountain Villa 18. Thousand Buddha(no plural in Chinese) Mountain Villa 19. ZheLing Hu Proper/Official Entrance Whew! I'm glad they do not give names to all the 996 islands on this man-made lake!! ^^^^^^^^^^ C&P from my own on Sucks ^^^^^^^^^ If you can see the third link of June 15th, 6:02pm post, that's what the Chinese in blue on the right hand is talking about.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 1:03 am
Ha! Csnog! I just realized I have given you a Chinese name. Sorry about misspelling it. You'd understand my honest mistake after tangling with all theses sound literal translation for a long while now. I thing my English ability is going backwards, I'm confusing the grammar more and more. Oh, well, I'm not worried. I know you all will tolerate my errors. And, if this doesn't "kill" me, I will at least come out knowing more about my mother land. (I was actually born and raised in Taiwan. Thank Goodness both sets of my grandparents ran from the Reds! But my father's from NanJing and my mom's from ShangHai.) Also, I did not mean to put a sad face about Survivor maps site. Dan dug up a bunch of goodies as well. Wez and Dan directly and indirectly showed me how to fool around w/ maps sites! Is this T.M.I. yet?? Goodnight all!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 2:33 am
Chy, thanks you for so much information. I'm so excited for Survivor China as my sister's partner is from Shanghai. His younger brother and the brother's family still live there so there are frequent trips to China. I realize that Shanghai is not near where the survivors will be, but I cannot wait for this season to start.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 6:00 am
Chy, July, August will be the rainy season. So many memories of the people. They wanted to practice their english with me all the time because I tried the food cooked on the street and spent hours walking around. I walked away from our group in another city looking for a cold pepsi and eveything stopped on the street. when I returned from the ice cream shop they had gone to get friends to come look. We were in a town in the country that had not seen tourists because we were a test group for a small airport that President Clinton was comming into. I watched from a picnic table while the entire crew took picture of themselves in front of the plane. On the Yang Tze everything and I mean everything is transported on the river. They grow corn in every crevice that they can find along the lower banks but now that they have been moved higher it will be nore difficult. The men in our group had a virtual uproar when they (our guide) tried to tell us we didn't have time to see the Stillwell museum in Chongquin. We won. Very few discuss Chongquin, a city of 30 million people. We saw the marks on the walls of the city and all along the river on the mountains where the flooding would take place. What can I say about the Terracotta warriors in Xian. Breathtaking! China is beautiful, with eager, inquisitive, warm people. It is the one country I want to return to.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8:57 am
Yes, Cs. It's Rain/Typhoon Season even now. For a whole week of June 8,9,.. all through 14th, they just got a whole bunch of rain for the six Provinces including JX, HB, AH, GD, QZ and FJ(I think). 71 deaths, 13 missing, over 10,000,000 displaced by the great flood. I was wondering about the great function of those Dams ... It was only the SE part of JX though, according to Vern. But yes, since LuShan is famous for the fog and humidity, the Castaways should probably rename themselves the Mosquito feeds . My mom had spent a bit of her infancy/childhood in Chungking's during WWII. You probably know this, but that city was the most bombed city ever in the history since CKS called it a temporary capital at the time. That's after Japs took over most of China, before the Ally got involved. A lot of those inland cities are only starting to caught interests of the foreigners. Did you get the authentic SzeChaung food while you were there? (Today is a bit hard to praise Chinese though, Lou D is talking about them assembling cars in Mexico then export them to sale in the US, avoiding huge tax and such....) Tess, glad you'd be enjoying this! It's funny, but even in my small town of 25,000(counting surounding towns), so many people today has ties with China that's not just on the back of their TV, DVR or PC! There's a Catholic priest born and raised in town who'd work in HK and China since before Mao took over(was even thrown in jail by Reds and all). He went to Taiwan after that. He's retired in CA now, but whenever he's around, he loves to converse with me in Taiwanese, of which he could master better than I could! 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 9:04 am
Chy, I have been to China twice, once in 1998, again in 2006. We went to Suzhou (Beijing, Shanghai, Tai'An, Ji'Nan, Qufu) on both trips. I haven't had much time to read here, but will be back.
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