Survivor: Gabon – Earth’s Last Eden is the upcoming seventeenth season of the CBS reality television series Survivor. Applications were due on January 24, 2008. Around March 2008, 800 applicants were selected for an interview by CBS. Out of these 800, about 48 semi-finalists were selected to go to Los Angeles sometime during April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late June and mid-August 2008.
On April 13, 2008 at the annual National Association of Broadcasters’s NAB Show, it was announced that the 17th season would be the first to be shot in high definition, using Sony XDCAMs.
Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June, and will premiere on September 25, 2008 at 8:00 PM ET / 7:00 CT. It will mark the second season of the series to be filmed in Africa, after Survivor: Africa was filmed seven years prior in Kenya. Reports from Gabon indicate the show was filmed around the coastal towns of Nyonie and Ekwata in the Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve.
Host Jeff Probst mentioned that preproduction of the series was plagued by shipment delays, a crane toppling over and undesirable wild animals encroaching into the production area.
This season, Exile Island has been renamed as simply, “Exile.” Players sent to Exile will have a choice of receiving a clue to the location of a Hidden Immunity Idol or an “‘instant comfort’ — a nice thing to sleep on, some food, some fruit,” according to Probst.
Contestants
- Ace Gordon, 27, Naples, FL
- Robert “Bob” Crowley 58, Portland, ME
- Charlie Herschel, 29, New York, NY
- Corinne Kaplan, 29, Los Angeles, CA
- Crystal Cox, 29, Durham, NC
- Dan Kay, 32, Boston, MA
- Danny “GC” Brown, 26, Portland, OR
- Gillian Larson, 61, Temecula, CA
- Jacquie Berg, 25, Santa Barbara, CA
- Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, 29, Brooklyn, NY
- Kelly Czarnecki, 22, Buffalo Grove, IL
- Ken Hoang, 22, Westminster, CA
- Marcus Lehman, 28, Atlanta, GA
- Matty Whitmore, 29, Pacific Palisades, CA
- Michelle Chase, 24, Los Angeles, CA
- Paloma Soto-Castillo, 24, Downey, CA
- Randy Bailey, 49, Eagle Rock, MO
- Susie Smith, 47, Charles City, IA
Website: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor
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