Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. The premiere aired September 25, 2008, with the first two episodes screened back-to-back.
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 in April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late June and mid-July 2008. This season, players sent to Exile Island had a choice of receiving a clue to the location of a Hidden Immunity Idol or a comfort item.
On April 13, 2008, at the National Association of Broadcasters's annual show, Sony announced that the 17th season of Survivor would be the first to be shot in high definition, using Sony XDCAMs.
Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June. It marked the second season of the series that was filmed in Africa (Survivor: Africa had been filmed seven years earlier 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.
The winner was 57-year-old Bob Crowley, a high school physics teacher from Maine. He defeated Susie Smith and Jessica "Sugar" Kiper in a 4-3-0 vote at the live finale to take the million dollar prize. In addition, Bob won the "Sprint Survivor of the Season" award, earning the fans' vote over Sugar and Matty Whitmore.
Jessica "Sugar" Kiper and Randy Bailey returned for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains where they placed 20th and 18th respectively. Corinne Kaplan was asked to return, but declined due to work obligations.
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Episode 01 - Want to See the Elephant Dung? (700mb)
Episode 02 - She Obviously Is Post-Op! (350mb)
Episode 03 - It Was Like Christmas Morning! (350mb)
Episode 04 - This Camp Is Cursed (350mb)
Episode 05 - He's a Snake, But He's My Snake (350mb)
Episode 06 - It All Depends On the Pin-Up Girl (350mb)
Episode 07 - Apple in the Garden of Eden (350mb)
Episode 08 - The Brains Behind Everything (350mb)
Episode 09 - Nothing Tastes Better Than Five Hundred Dollars (350mb)
Episode 10 - I Was Put On The Planet For This Show RECAP (350mb)
Episode 11 - The Good Things in Life Aren’t Easy (350mb)
Episode 12 - The Good Guys Should Win in the End (350mb)
Episode 13 - Say Goodbye to Gabon (700mb)
Episode 14 - The Reunion (350mb)
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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 in April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected to participate in the show between late June and mid-July 2008. This season, players sent to Exile Island had a choice of receiving a clue to the location of a Hidden Immunity Idol or a comfort item.
On April 13, 2008, at the National Association of Broadcasters's annual show, Sony announced that the 17th season of Survivor would be the first to be shot in high definition, using Sony XDCAMs.
Survivor: Gabon began filming in late June. It marked the second season of the series that was filmed in Africa (Survivor: Africa had been filmed seven years earlier 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.
The winner was 57-year-old Bob Crowley, a high school physics teacher from Maine. He defeated Susie Smith and Jessica "Sugar" Kiper in a 4-3-0 vote at the live finale to take the million dollar prize. In addition, Bob won the "Sprint Survivor of the Season" award, earning the fans' vote over Sugar and Matty Whitmore.
Jessica "Sugar" Kiper and Randy Bailey returned for Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains where they placed 20th and 18th respectively. Corinne Kaplan was asked to return, but declined due to work obligations.
Survivor is an American version of the Survivor reality television game show, itself derived from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson originally created in 1997 by Charlie Parsons. The series premiered on May 31, 2000 on CBS. It is hosted by veteran television personality, reporter and one-time game show emcee Jeff Probst, who is also an executive producer, and also executive produced by Mark Burnett and original creator Charlie Parsons.
The show maroons a group of strangers (as one or more tribes) in a desolate locale, where they must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves, while competing in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from expulsion from the game in the next of the successive votes for elimination. While much rarer than elimination by vote, medical conditions, such as injury or infection, have eliminated several contestants. The last two or three survivors face a jury composed of the last seven, eight, or nine players voted off. That jury interrogates the final few, and then votes for the winner of the game, the title of Sole Survivor and a million dollar prize.
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Episode 01 - Want to See the Elephant Dung? (700mb)
Episode 02 - She Obviously Is Post-Op! (350mb)
Episode 03 - It Was Like Christmas Morning! (350mb)
Episode 04 - This Camp Is Cursed (350mb)
Episode 05 - He's a Snake, But He's My Snake (350mb)
Episode 06 - It All Depends On the Pin-Up Girl (350mb)
Episode 07 - Apple in the Garden of Eden (350mb)
Episode 08 - The Brains Behind Everything (350mb)
Episode 09 - Nothing Tastes Better Than Five Hundred Dollars (350mb)
Episode 10 - I Was Put On The Planet For This Show RECAP (350mb)
Episode 11 - The Good Things in Life Aren’t Easy (350mb)
Episode 12 - The Good Guys Should Win in the End (350mb)
Episode 13 - Say Goodbye to Gabon (700mb)
Episode 14 - The Reunion (350mb)
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ROBERT 'BOB' CROWLEY
