For our final spotlight article for a returning player on “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites,” we turn to a man who is not just a specialist, but the specialist: Phillip Sheppard. He’s a man who has spiritual conversations with his dead grandfather, wears feathers on his head, and announces his status as a former federal agent like […]
When you play “Survivor” for the first time and you make an absolutely insane move, it’s understandable that you become America’s favorite reality TV punching bag for the better part of several years. However, we’re not sure that there is anything that helps you more when coming back to play the game again then being […]
Sad news for those of us who are diehard “Survivor” fans: for whatever reason, CBS has decided that they want just 90 minutes for the season premiere of “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites” rather than the two hours that was originally ordered. In a press release on Thursday, the network first confirmed the news, and […]
When you look at most of the cast on the Favorites side of “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites,” few are like Dawn Meehan. Many of them are significantly younger (save for “Special Agent” Phillip Sheppard), and most of them are known for being some sort of gigantic character. However, Dawn is the sort of nice […]
When you look at some of the Favorites on “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites,” it is pretty easy to draw the conclusion that not all of them are the best players in the history of this game. Two of them (Erik Reichenbach and Brandon Hantz) were voted out after giving up their immunity necklaces, another […]
We’re going to take a brief break from our castaway spotlights pertaining to “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites,” mostly in order to bring you an answer to another interesting question: just who actually ended up saying “no” to appearing on this season? You can’t imagine that the desired list for the show possibly included everyone […]
While the vast majority of the cast from “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites” is all from the past four or five seasons, we’re pretty thrilled that the casting producers dipped back into the well a little bit for Corinne Kaplan. The “Survivor: Gabon” alum was notorious for being one of the nastier competitors to ever […]
When the cast for “Survivor Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites” was announced, there was one immediate reaction that we had: why in the world is Francesca Hogi on this list? If the theme for the season was contestants who deserved a second chance to play the game, she would be in our mind a unanimous choice. […]
There are surprising casting choices, and then there is Brandon Hantz. We were stunned to begin with that Russell Hantz’s nephew got cast on “Survivor: South Pacific” based largely on nepotism alone, and his journey was one of the strangest for any reality-show contestants that we have ever seen. We continually heard that he wanted […]
With every castaway spotlight that we are doing for returning players on “Survivor: Caramoan: Fans vs. Favorites,” our main focus is looking at how the game they played the first time will shape the moves they are able to make in their return. For example, some castaways (Phillip, Cochran) are likely to be saddled with […]
