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Jeff Probst on His Future on ‘Survivor,’ the Format Change He Was Told Would ‘Kill the Franchise’ and Already Planning for 51
'Survivor' host and showrunner Jeff Probst opens up about the future of the franchise, format changes and whether the show could continue without him.
When producer Mark Burnett first spoke to Probst about the show, he knew he wanted to, somehow, tell contestants’ stories from both in front of and behind the camera. “In the early seasons, I think of the unscripted genre in general, you could typecast because it was so new — this is the mom, this is the leading man, this is the college student,” says Probst. When Cheeks put the new rule in place, “it forced us to dig deeper in our process of casting and the riches are on display in every new season of ‘Survivor,’” the longtime producer explains.
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