Remember Survivor? Of course you do. Now there was a show like they don’t make any more. Whatever happened to Survivor?
What? Survivor is still a TV show? And the latest season ended last night? Really? And someone called JT won by beating a consultant in the final? But we thought that everybody stopped watching Survivor about 12 seasons ago. Are you sure any of this actually happened? You didn’t have an out of body experience – albeit the world’s worst out of body experience that involved revisiting an episode of Survivor from a few years ago – did you?
Apparently not. Weird.
Survivor is a show that’s gone through many stages in its lifetime. When it was first broadcast in 2000 it was a sensation, capturing the world’s imagination and informing an entire generation of schoolchildren that the best way to earn a million dollars is to be a redneck who can stand on an upturned log in the sea for longer than anybody else.
Then, as interest in Survivor inevitably waned, the last-ditch exploitative gimmicks came out to play, like when it embraced racial segregation in 2006 or that entire, best-forgotten-about season where the castaways had to try and evade the clutches of an often-invisible tentacled alien hunter by rolling around in the mud. No, wait, that was Predator. Our mistake.
Anyway, Survivor has now moved on to a new stage – the stage where nobody really watches it any more because the challenges on the show aren’t as brutal as the challenges faced by many of its viewers who’ve just been made redundant, seen their savings turn to ash, lost their homes and have to burn a combination of sentimental heirlooms and domestic pets in a wood brazier inside an abandoned scrap metal yard just to keep warm enough to allow their bloody to circulate properly.
And with that in mind, let’s congratulate JT, whoever he is, for winning the latest season of Survivor, which is apparently still a thing. AP reports:
The tribe has spoken, naming cattle rancher James “J.T.” Thomas Jr. the sole “Survivor.” The 24-year-old country boy prevailed over New Yorker Stephen Fishbach on Sunday’s season finale, claiming the $1 million check. Thomas, who operates a cattle-ranching business in Samson, Ala., wept tears of joy after hearing the result. “I can’t help it. I’m happy ? it’s probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my life, obviously.”
And now that James ‘JT’ Thomas is a million dollars better off from his Survivor win, what’s next for him? Well, remember that this is the 18th season of Survivor – there’s little chance of him becoming a household name like the first few winners – but we do look forward to hearing from him in a few months when he inevitably attempts to defraud the US government or goes batshit and shoots a puppy with a bow and arrow because he can no longer comfortably separate reality from fantasy. We can’t wait, big guy.
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d says
No one watches it anymore? So 12 million viewers is ‘no one’? Try doing some research before writing up an article and trying to be clever and pointing out that ‘no one’ watches it anymore. Going into it’s 19th season with a solid 12 million viewer following and a Emmy awarding winning host (who just won last year) isn’t a ‘no one’ show. Nearly the same amount of people watch SURVIVOR as did HOUSE last week.. so you’re also saying ‘no one’ watches House? LOL
Donna Harris says
How can you be so foolish, thinking that 12 million viewers aren’t watching Survivor. It is a great show. You are one of those people who want to be on the show an can’t! Each season of Survivor is different. Don’t put down a show because you don’t like it there are many people who love it.
NG says
I guess all of my friends and family are “no one”. We all look forward to “Survivor” every season and tune in every week. And from what I see in published viewer reports, “Survivor” is still holding the attention of roughly 12 million other viewers. I’m not sure why you would write this article, but you should get your facts straight before you weigh in on a topic that you seemingly know nothing about. I was thrilled when Jeff Probst announced that there would be another season in the fall. Well then again, I guess I am “no one”, so who cares what I think.
alz says
I agree with “D”. I still watch it and look forward to it all the time. This was a great season. I have watched every episode since the beginning. I know lots of people that still watch it.
jeff says
hey jerk! 12 million viewers are no one for you? stupid!
congratulation JT for winning the sole survivor!
Margie says
Love Survivor! Been watching it since it started. Can’t wait for the next one! Congratulations JT!
linda says
i love surivor, at least it is better to watch then some of those sex shows on tv, where you have to be careful what your kids watch.
Cuttlebutt says
That guy shot a puppy? What the hell?! How did I never heard about that? What a sick freak!
Lisa says
My husband and I watch surivior every season and have fun with picking our own winner.
Josh says
Stuart Heritage… you are a an idiot. You must be such a douche that you don’t realize that for it to stay in the same time slot on the same night for 9 years that it is IMMENSELY popular. As someone else commented, 12 million nobodies watched it this season… and I GAURANTEE that 12 million is about 11,990,000 more than read your lame ass web article
HALO3V says
Reality Check
1. Hecklerspray is BRITISH
Anyone of you idjits ready to tell me who many folks in the UK watched it??? Hmm – not – not so much.
Try and remember its not a American site, but of course if you actually read half on the site or the article you would sort of know that already.
bob says
people who pretend to be journalist’s have to write useless articles like this to validate that someone is reading their lame opinion’s.
Allie says
Ok this guy is bitter that its still on or something cause a lot of people watch it… just cause you dont like if doesnt mean others dont
Becky says
Congrats to you JT!!
Newell says
Damn straight. I hate authors of “blogs” that do no research. What an annoying blogger.
Derek says
Hey Survivor Watchers.
Remember, 55 million people voted to make Sarah Palin one more skin cancer outbreak away from being the commander in chief.
Just because 12 million morons watch doesn’t mean the show doesn’t suck. No show has MASH numbers anymore, not with the internet, smart phones, ITunes and a million other ways to get your entertainment narrowcast to your individual preferences.
But your show, like the original Bachelor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, is most responsible for the downgrade in what the rest of us full-functioning humans like to “original programming”, you know, where they have to have writers, think creatively and break new ground. So big thanks for watching shows like Survivor and leading us to the inevitable, something called “The Hills”.
I bet if McDonalds could pump bacon fat direct into your asses, you’d praise that as innovation right?
Idiots.
Ace Freely says
^ Derek’s a moron. How many terrible sitcoms out there do you need? Survivor, The Amazing Race and Big Brother are in a league of their own for reality shows. They aren’t brainless manufactured gunk like The Bachelor, So You Think You Can Dance and any show that has ever aired on MTV or VH1. Get your facts straight before posting such garbage. You can’t group one show into a group of trash, without even knowing much about it.