Why has Craig Kilborn canceled all "Survivor" appearances?
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Gadzooks

Friday, March 22, 2002 - 11:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone know why Kilborn has stopped all guest appearances by the castaways?

They started with the first two and had scheduled the next castoffs for Tuesday nights, but I just checked and they are no longer on the guest list.

Could it be that CBS doesn't want to promote them anymore or was that David Letterman's idea?

Car54

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 03:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The article in Sarah's thread said she was on next week. She was asked about Letterman and said he hadn't decided. Bet that was part of his new contract.
I am glad- he was really disrespectful to most of the people. I like Dave but those appearances left me feeling crappy.

I usually look around at all the press after a boot, and it seems to me there is a lot less this season. Some of the magazines and websites that have usually done interviews with booted players aren't doing them, and in some cases the post boot articles aren't interviews at all..they are just summaries of the show.

There is a lot less pre-show press as well...no Insider, no TV Guide previews... haven't been able to tell if MB is not giving info, or if these publications are just not giving the coverage like they have in the past.

Tksoard

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 05:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Car, they also aren't doing the E! Survivor Preview show with Jerri before the show. I really enjoyed that, cause they had the past Survivors discussing the past and present episode. I didn't know about it until the end of last season, but does anyone know if it was on at the start of S3?

Car54

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tk, it WAS on, because I rememeber the big party for the first episode...Richard Hatch was on- they had people on both coasts.

I wonder if they found that all the info diluted the impact of the actual show, or if it is the other way around and the press is just not as interested.

I saw on Access that ratings were way up with the show airing on Wednesdays, and the lead in really boosted TAR (tho I don't like them both on the same night...too much reality at once...I just get too excited!)

Grooch

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Car, I remember this week to look for the E show and it wasn't on. But maybe it has something to do with the show being on Wednesday this week. <shrug>

Car54

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No, Grooch, it was on for S3, but they aren't doing it at all for S4. Tk and I used to watch it "together" to get ramped up for the show during S3!

Grooch

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 07:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I totally misread the post. :)

I thought you said they had a big party for S4, not S3.

Seamonkey

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the Academy Awards are also in play here.. all the studios pushing to get more publicity and such.. they are also competing with news on worldwide unrest and some really compelling trials.. Andrea Yates and now the two
attorneys convicted in the dog-mauling murder trial.. and those two make Rob and Sean look like boyscouts!

Speaking of other shows on the same night.. since there was almost nothing for me on tv last night, I watched UPN's new show Under One Roof which is a competition between 5 or 6 families with the prize being the house in Fiji..

and following that saw the rerun of last epi of TAR..

Anyway, I'm fine with fewer appearances.. they tend to be mostly demeaning (Letterman) and repetitive.. for one thing the way they run through a ton of interviews at one time.. would be more interesting to hear from them at various stages.

Chance

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 09:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What about Rosie Appearances? Did Hunter go on Rosie??? I hope she gave him a nice present if he was on. I really feel he got hosed !!!!

Car54

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 10:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Chance, there are threads for Hunter and Sarah's post boot appearances... you can get all the details there.

Neko

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 10:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sarah and the Grannies weren't one Rosie I don't think...I didn't get to see the beginning of Thrusday's or Friday's show so maybe they were...123

Chance

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 10:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the heads up, Car. ;-)

Twiggyish

Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 06:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sarah was on Rosie, on Friday. Caroline Rhea was the guest host. You didn't miss anything.. Sarah didn't say anything much.

Gina8642

Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 11:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
There is clearly less press and less hype for this season. This is no longer a "phenomenon show". It is just one, of many sucessful shows on the air. You don't see huge hype all over the press for every ER or Friends episode, now it will be the same for Survivor. I don't think MB/CBS is holding back info. They want to hype it as much as possible.

E! can probably get better ratings with a better demographic with pre-oscar coverage than Survivor, so that is what they are doing. Same for ET, some for lots of those places.

Interviews take time and effort. If they don't think they are paying off with readers or viewers, they aren't going to do it.

Seamonkey

Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 11:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Of course.. are you going to interview Halle Berry or Hunter? Sissy Spacek or Sarah?

Jury members from a high profile trial or eary
bootees from Survivor?

Tbear

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My belief is that the show is dying down due to the fact that it is the same show but in different locations. I didn't stopped watching Africa because I got sick of the bickering. I got into this one for some reason, I guess the Marammu tribe's great spirit and just a few jerks has made it worthwhile.

Neko

Monday, March 25, 2002 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The fact that people are even watching is the island scenery.
"Survivor goes back to the beach" as they said.

I believe that after this, unless he (MB), choses all new people with characteristics of no one before them (Think the three basketball coaches), the show will die.

Of course it wouldn't be a quick death. There'd be people like me who would watch it still because it's just something on but most people would stop making the ratings for it be the same as just a regular show (It has quite a high ratings number, usually only beaten by Friends) and CBS dropping it.
Whoooo. Big post. Did it end up making any sense?n