Austere in black leather, she scowls at each victim in turn. The redhead with the ice-iron eyes doesn't just announce the title of the show, she snaps it out like a bullwhip. Producers will do anything to anybody to get ratings. The Survivors had to jump off cliffs, walk ropes, throw boomerangs, risk lightning and floods and camp on a beach that seemed to be a crocodile resort. Then, there are those pesky social aspects.
Contestants form separate, secret clubs and connive to rub out other contestants.
They vow to vote off the fittest and smartest. Maybe it was the utter lack of red meat, and vitamins C and B in that Outback rice diet. What was needed were a few shrimp on the barbie. Or a steak. Getting in on the act, cable networks are marching tourists through infernal foreign landscapes of all sorts.