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BBC's Survivor signs for second series despite low ratings as staff brand the show 'a waste of licence fee payers' money'
A reboot of Survivor, understood to have cost the Corporation just shy of £20 million, bombed in the ratings.
BBC chiefs moved David Attenborough’s Planet Earth III from its Sunday 8pm slot to make way for Survivor as it was deemed such a huge priority. Bosses at the network have been keen to find a Saturday night television show which will replicate the golden era when they had programmes such as The Generation Game. Survivor sees 18 Britons taken to the Dominican Republic where they are marooned in a tropical location and divided into two tribes, competing against each other in a range of physical and mental challenges for reward or immunity.
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