What??? Survivor copying The Apprentice?

The Apprentice

By Tabloid Baby | Monday, December 18, 2006 | 8:45 am | 0 Comments

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After 13 seasons of Survivor, is Mark Burnett running out of fresh ideas? Last night’s three-hour Survivor: Cook Islands finale ended with a tease of next spring’s Survivor: Fiji and its twists. So why does it sound so similar to the new season of another Burnett show: The Apprentice, which launches January 7th?The Survivor: Fiji promised an Exile Island crawling with snakes, two immunity idols, and a diverse and larger field of contestants– nineteen of them, ranging “from a Harvard-educated lawyer to a once-homeless street performer.”

But the big twist is in the accommodations for the two competing tribes:

“One lives the life of luxury while the other is left with virtually nothing.”

It’s not as controversial as dividing the contestants by race, but it does sound like a possibly compelling social experiment of haves and have nots– if not for the surprise twist in the season of the Apprentice:

In a compelling social experiment of haves and have nots… each week, the contestants on the winning team will get to live in a luxurious mansion. But contestants on the losing team will have to sleep outside in tents in the back yard of the mansion with outdoor showers and port-a-potties, giving contestants more incentive than ever to win their tasks each week…

Burnett’s also working with Steven Spielberg on the movie competition series, On The Lot. Here’s an idea: why not put up half the contestants at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and let the rest sleep in their cars…

–Tabloid Baby

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