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Bastable

Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Presumably, Brazil.

Man, there are some deadly diseases out there. Not to mention some tough backwoods bandits. This should be an interesting production.

Any thoughts on the new location? Anyone else hope they use the show to draw attention to the way industry is clear-cutting rainforest at a disastrous rate?

Car54

Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 10:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They certainly used the location in Africa to draw attention to conditions there, and did a lot to try to help, I bet they will do the same in the Amazon.

Fluff

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 07:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oooohhh! I can't wait!

Bastable

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 10:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone know exactly where in the Amazon it is? It's a mightly large place.

Csnog

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 05:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
50 miles from Manaus.

The crew was very happy. They stayed in first class quarters.

Csnog

Friday, December 20, 2002 - 07:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How to be a Survivor in the Amazonian forest
by Simone Mousse
O Globo
Rio, December 8, 2002


To sleep in the middle of vegetation, to endure the mosquitos and the almost unbearable heat, to swim in a river full of caimans... These are tools of the trade for one of the producers of the sixth edition of Survivor, the American program which inspired No limite. The 34-year old producer from Rio, Luciana Brafman, 34, lived in New York and had never even gone camping in her life. Yet since September, she has been in the Amazonian forest, working to film the show with one hundred Brazilians and 300 foreigners.

"It's going on three months since I have seen a car," she tells us good-naturedly. "But already, I am getting used to it, I think that I will even miss it when I return to civilization."

Luciana can say little, or almost nothing, about Survivor itself. After some information was leaked to the press, CBS, the television network which holds the rights to the program, intensified its vigilance and started to demand absolute secrecy from all those involved in the project. It is known that the production headquarters are located in an immense hotel right on the Rio Negro river in the Amazon. The hotel has capacity for 600 guests and is about a 3 hour boat ride away from Manaus.

"Cellulars do not connect properly, the heat is absurd, we are in the middle of the forest! And when it rains, it's a nightmare," recounts the producer. "The other day, I went swimming in a river, but I was scared to death of the caimans and the piranhas. Snakes, I have yet to see. This is the mother of all challenges."

In Luciana's current reality, there is no room for vanity. The producer's basic wardrobe consists of cargo pants or bermuda shorts, tennis shoes or sandals.

"It's very strange to have to wear the same clothes all the time. And the food too! Here everything is made with flour and cassava, there is not much variety. I am dying to eat broccoli and spinach! We have to import everything that I love, including dough."

Luciana states that she is loving the unusual experience, despite her love of the beaches of Ipanema. What she cannot hide is the longing for her family and friends.

"I can speak with whoever I want, call anyone I want. The producers do not have the degree of total isolation that the participants do. To them, I cannot talk. But I miss seeing the people I love," she says.

The team will remain confined there until the middle of this month (she would not confirm even this much!). Survivor 6 should air in the United States in February. The first editions were recorded in Oceania (Malaysia and Australia); the third in Eastern Africa (Kenya); the fourth in French Polynesia; the fifth in Thailand. It is speculated that the seventh edition could be filmed in Mexico, with a celebrity cast. The winner of Survivor 6 will take home a 1 million dollar haul.

Lycanthrope

Saturday, December 21, 2002 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think Survivor 7 will have a celebrity cast after watching the Reunion show Thursday.

But the Amazon is a deadly environment, to be sure. Should make for good T.V.

Willnu

Saturday, December 21, 2002 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Survivor 18...IOWA! It just isn't the same anymore (sigh) ;(

Moondance

Saturday, December 21, 2002 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I still love Survivor and look forward to each series!:)

Whoohoo Bring it!

Shelb724

Saturday, December 21, 2002 - 03:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Survivor 18...IOWA! It just isn't the same anymore (sigh) ;(

sorry for copying and pasting your response--but that's funny. i was just thinking that too--not iowa, but find some desolate part of THIS country. where i don't know. the amazon should be interesting--of course, they kept talking about this island in thailand being a rainforest and snakey, but i didn't see much of that.

Kaili

Sunday, December 22, 2002 - 08:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I would like to see Survivor Yukon where they are all ready for (and expecting) to be laying on a beach all day in shorts and bikinis. Or just somewhere with mountains, pine trees, etc- maybe somewhere in Washinton or Oregon. The only problem with doing it in the US is finding enough isolated land in a good location.

Merrywidow

Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 10:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Obviously, you've never been to Montana.

Bastable

Saturday, December 28, 2002 - 11:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How hard could it be to survive in the Amazon? They have all those books out there!

I just don't get it.

Denecee

Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 03:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol Bastable!