• CBS's 'The Amazing Race 7' continues riding high with "Romber"-fueled ratings

  March 17, 2005
  Perhaps the ratings problems that have long plagued CBS's Emmy-winning The Amazing Race are coming to an end ... with a little help from the show's reality TV friends.

• 'Survivor All-Stars' contestants record video pitches for $1 million audience prize

  May 10, 2004
  As promised by Survivor host Jeff Probst on the live reunion show, each of the 18 participants in Survivor: All-Stars has recorded a video giving reasons why he or she should be awarded the $1 million prize that goes to the viewers' choice of the survivor who was deemed most worthy of the money. Not surprisingly, the pitches for the money ranged from charitable to desperate.

• Three years later, 'Survivor: All-Stars' Tina Wesson finally gets her torch snuffed

  February 2, 2004
  Wasting no time in putting what was no doubt their long-anticipated "boot the previous winners" strategy into action, during the premiere of CBS' Survivor: All-Stars, the four non-ultimate Survivor members of the losing Saboga tribe voted to boot Tina Wesson, the 42-year-old winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback, from the game.

• CBS formally announces 'Survivor: All-Stars' contestants

  January 12, 2004
  CBS today formally announced what has been reported for months already, that eighteen former Survivor castaways, including four previous winners, will return to compete in Survivor: All-Stars. The eighth installment of the smash-hit series will premiere Sunday, February 1, immediately following CBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl XXXVIII.

• 'All-Star Survivor' cast and tribes already uncovered?

  November 9, 2003
  Score one for the Web sleuths, we think. The Survivor spoiling/news sites Survivor News and Survivor Fever have both identified the 18 probable contestants in CBS's All-Star Survivor, which is currently filming in Panama. In addition, Survivor News claims to have the tribal breakdowns being used on the show.

• Report: Past 'Survivor' champions balk at $2 million 'All-Star Survivor' prize

  July 14, 2003
  The Orange County Register (free registration required) reports that some of the past champions from CBS's Survivor are balking at appearing in the upcoming "All-Star Survivor" edition (also known as Survivor 8) in a dispute over prize money. According to People magazine, the winners of Survivor: The Australian Outback, Tina Wesson, and Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn, have requested that executive producer Mark Burnett increase the announced $2 million first prize for the winner of the show.

• Colby Donaldson tentatively joins cast of 'All-Star Survivor'

  July 7, 2003
  The Arizona Republic reports that Survivor: The Australian Outback finalist Colby Donaldson has tentatively accepted a spot in the upcoming All-Star Survivor (also known as Survivor 8) series, which will be filmed in November and December 2003 and aired in Spring 2004. Colby thus would become the third Outback contestant added to the show, along with his final-two ally Tina Wesson and his sometime galpal Jerri Manthey.

• 'Survivor 8' considers filming All Star Survivor edition in Palau

  June 11, 2003
  CBS and Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett appear to be trying for a grand slam with Survivor 8. As previously discussed, this will be the long-rumored All-Star Survivor edition, with the confirmed participation of the first three Survivor winners -- RIchard Hatch, Tina Wesson and Ethan Zohn -- plus Susan Hawk and Rudy Boesch from Richard's "Tagi Alliance" in Pulau Tiga and the beautiful but treacherous Jerri Manthey from The Australian Outback.

• 'Survivor 8' to be "all-star" edition, to air in spring 2004

  May 14, 2003
  At one point, CBS was the leader in reality TV programming. Apparently it's not ready to give up its crown in the 2003-04 season.

• Survivor 2's Elisabeth Filarski gets married

  July 9, 2002
  It's official -- America's favorite Survivor sweetheart has gotten hitched (sorry guys!) The Providence Journal reports that Elisabeth Filarski, the 25-year-old former 'Survivor: Australia' contestant wed her college boyfriend, former Boston College quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, 24, this past Saturday. In keeping with her design background, the bride designed her own wedding gown.

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