Survivor: Panama (British season)

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Survivor: Panama is the second and final season of the British ITV reality game show Survivor. Hosted by Channel 4 cricket presenter Mark Nicholas, the program consisted of 37 days of gameplay with 12 castaways competing for a grand prize of £1,000,000. This season was set in the Bocas del Toro archipelago of Panama.

The twelve contestants were initially separated into two tribes, simply named North Island and South Island, which were represented by Frog and Turtle respectfully. On Day 17, the eight remaining players merged into one tribe, named Columbus, named after explorer Christopher Columbus. The six players voted off from Columbus formed the Tribal Council Jury who along with the British public - as the 7th juror - ultimately decided who would be the "Ultimate Survivor".

After 37 days of competition, police detective Jonny Gibb was named the "Ultimate Survivor", defeating teacher Susannah Moffatt in a 7-0 jury vote. Moffatt complained the show portrayed her as an "arty farty teacher with a posh accent".^[1]

Production[]

Despite the lack of success of the first series,^[2] ITV decided to bring back Survivor with some major changes. These changes included fewer contestants, audience participation and replacing presenters Mark Austin and John Leslie, with a single presenter, Channel 4 cricket presenter Mark Nicholas.^[3]

Additionally, viewers were also promised that any controversial activities - such as the sex that was edited out of a first season - would definitely be shown this year.^{[citation needed]}

Broadcast[]

The show was only broadcast in a once-a-week slot, on Wednesday nights, often at 9:45pm due to live Champions League football airing that night on ITV1. Each episode was split into two parts, a main one-hour programme that contained highlights from the days on the island that were featured and a secondary, half-hour programme that aired following the news, which featured the latest contestant voted-off from the show involved in a private face-to-face interview with Nicholas. Media experts believed placing the show in this "graveyard slot" was a means to fulfill contractual requirements.^{[citation needed]}

An additional program, titled Survivor: Raw was shown on ITV2 after the main show had aired. This was presented by "Ultimate Survivor" of Survivor: Pulau Tiga, Charlotte Hobrough, and Ed Hall. It included extra footage not shown on the main show, discussions, interviews with evictees and phone-ins and emails from viewers.

Contestants[]

The total votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.

The Columbus tribe did not have an official tribe colour, they simply had a flag resembling the flag of Panama with the frog and turtle replacing the red and blue stars. Purple is used here because it is a combination of the 2 tribe colours.

Season summary[]

The twelve contestants were divided into two tribes, North Island (red) and South Island (blue). South Island had a rough start at the beginning of the game, losing the first three challenges in a row. The tribe's early losses sent them to the first two Tribal Councils, where they voted out Sarah McCombie (for being weak and asking to leave) and Lee Capon (because some of the tribe members thought they would be in a better position if he left). However, the tribe's losing streak did not last for long, and they fought back, winning the next four challenges. North Island was sent to Tribal Council twice in a row, where they voted out Tayfun Kadioglu (for not fitting in) and Meeta Bose (because she had asked to leave).

On Day 14, the two tribes evenly merged, with four members each, into one tribe - Columbus. Before the merge, the two tribes had vowed to remain loyal to one another through to the very end. At the new tribe's first Tribal Council, expectedly, there was a deadlocked 4-4 tie between Helen Carney and Bridget Griffiths. The two tied contestants took part in a sudden death trivia quiz about Panama; Helen was eliminated after the second question, meaning that South Island was now in the majority. At the next three Tribal Councils, South Island voted out the last remaining members of North Island consecutively (Alastair Brogan, Drew Agger and Dave Porter).

At this point, only original members of South Island remained; they now had no choice, but to vote out one of their own. By a unanimous vote, Bridget, the original tribe outsider, was voted out at the next Tribal Council. The three remaining members of Columbus then competed in their Final Immunity Challenge; Susannah Moffatt was victorious and was given the power to decide who would sit next to her in the Final Two. Despite believing that Jonny Gibb was more popular than John Dalzell, she voted out the latter thinking that she was remaining true to a deal that she had with Jonny.

At the Final Tribal Council, Susannah garnered no votes as people believed that she did not need the money and was "undeserving", and Jonny received all six of the jury votes from the contestants and an additional vote from the British public due to his likeability. Jonny became the second Ultimate Survivor and the first ever contestant to have played a "perfect" game.

Voting history[]

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Elimination notes[]

Following the television portrayal of some of the contestants in the first series, most of those in the second felt that they would prefer to maintain allegiance to their alliances, even at the risk of their future in the game. John, for example, would say after Dave was voted off: "if someone had explained my tactics at the start of the game, then I wouldn't have believed that I would jeopardise such a significant amount of money just for some contract written in the sand four weeks ago with someone I had only met 48 hours previously. But it is how you want to be perceived and how you feel you have played the game."

• Sarah: Although the tribe were disqualified due to Susannah's mistake in the immunity challenge, the tribe agreed to vote Sarah off at her request. (5-1)
• Lee: Lee was voted off because John, Jonny and Susannah decided that their position was better if they kept Bridget, who was not interested in building alliances and who helped around camp. South Island were only in this position because of John's misjudged showboating when well ahead in the immunity challenge but again someone else paid for the mistake. (4-1)
• Tayfun: Though Meeta had asked to be voted off if the opportunity arose, Tayfun was voted off because he did not fit in with the rest of his tribe. (5-1)
• Meeta: Meeta asked to be voted off and North Island agreed to do so. (4-1)
• N/A: The host announced a tribal council would not take place due to the merge. The public would get the seventh vote in the jury.
• Helen: The tribes chose to vote for Helen and Bridget following a deal between John, Jonny and Alastair during the immunity challenge. Helen lost to Bridget in the tiebreaker (a quiz about Panama) when the two former tribes voted against each other in two successive votes. (4-4, 3-3, lost tiebreaker)
• Alastair: After Helen's elimination, South Island proceeded to pick off the North Island members. Alastair, a physically very strong man was the first victim despite a last-ditch attempt by Drew to put herself forward in his place. (4-3)
• Drew: South Island's second victim, Drew was seen as a bigger threat than Dave. Jonny voted for her despite a relationship developing between the two of them. (4-2)
• Dave: South Island's final victim, as well as the final North Island member. Dave failed to win immunity and could not convince South Island members to break ranks. (4-1)
• Bridget: After Bridget lost immunity, she was voted off by the long-established alliance of John, Jonny, and Susannah. (3-1)
• John: Susannah won immunity and held to an agreement that she believed was in place between her and Jonny, even though she believed John was less popular with the jury. (1-0)
• Susannah: The jury felt she was carried to the final round by John and Jonny, as well as undeserving. She received significant hostility from the jury as her accent lent some to believe that she was "posh". She received no votes from the jury and didn't win the public's 7th vote. (0-7)
• Jonny: The jury saw Jonny as the more deserving player of the final 2. Jonny gained all the jury member's votes: Helen, Alistair, Drew, Dave, Bridget, and John. Jonny also received the vote from the public. Jonny is among the few players of Survivor worldwide to play what is considered a "perfect game" (no votes against during the game and all jury votes in the final vote) (7-0)

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