It would drift briefly, I figured, before washing up on the surprisingly empty, agonizingly close beaches of Pulau Tiga, a wet, jungly island twice the size of Central Park, seven miles off Borneo's northwestern coast. I'd traveled 10,000 miles to enjoy. My infantile meddling would cause their whole dumb show to not go on at all. Share your views in our Survivor Forum . I'm talking about Survivor , a concoction of game show, endurance contest, and soap opera being taped by CBS at that very moment just out of sight on this very island.
Sixteen go in, one comes out.
When only two remain, a congress of ejectees votes to choose the ultimate survivor. U.S. audiences will witness this historic moment during the show's 13th and final episode this August. But let's get back to me. The squall that had blown in just as we left the mainland was now peeling spray off the whitecaps, and I was drenched. I realized that in order to get a real chance of monkeywrenching the show, I'd have to go ashore.