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S6 Casting Down to the Wire
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Survivor 6 Casting -- Down to the Wire

No day at the beach in Santa Monica, California for 16 more people - and we don't mean the cast of Survivor: Thailand.
BY GREY MATTERS
Thursday, September 19, 2002

The cast for the SIXTH installment of Survivor will be selected as casting concludes in Santa Monica later today, sources say. Once again, the next crop of wannabe castaways are assembled at a hotel - dining at the requisite tables for one, undergoing the various interviews and tests put to them by SEG staffers.

SEG Casting Director Lynn Spillman is overseeing as an estimated 65,000 applicants are pared down to 48. Several days of intensive interviewing and testing cut that number in half. Once the group is cut to 24 CBS chief Les Moonves will meet hopefuls and select the final 16.

"Casting this thing is friggin' awful," moaned Executive Producer Mark Burnett in an interview with National Geographic back in 2001. "People have to want to sleep with our cast, you know. But they have to identify with 'em, too, so they can't all look like bloody Julia Roberts. There has to be some Alan Alda."

Burnett looks for adventure seekers who want to be leaders and want to win. Age, race and geographic diversity are other factors. "If they look great, all the better, he says.

Burnett recently admitted in a WWJ TV interview to playing bad cop during the interviews to uncover real personality traits.

"The reason Im so tough, casting time, is because I figure they sent videos in and they are in control of that. They are presenting an image of themselves that they want us to see. We know they did 50 takes of the video... But thats not what I want to see. I want to see what they are like beneath that."

The 48 finalists are scrutinized by casting agents, Burnett, Host Jeff Probst, and even doctors. Tests include a 1,400 question psychological test, background checks, and medical assessment. Burnett described tests with E! in 2000, in the midst of casting Survivor: Outback.

"They're the same exams given to law-enforcement officers," Burnett says. "We want to find out, 'Are they too fragile? Are they too aggressive and may pick fights?' We have a huge obligation to make sure we don't put people on who shouldn't be there."

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Satellite Shows Next Survivor Camp Location

The Amazon rainforest is the location for the sixth installment of Survivor," says John Melton, of Tropical Nature Travel, who just returned from Manaus on a fact-finding trip for Survivor Maps.
BY DAN BOLLINGER
Tuesday, October 1, 2002

"It seems to be a pretty open 'secret' there that Survivor is planning to film here using the Ariau Towers Hotel for their base camp and filming on the Rio Negro. Filming staff are arriving in Manaus; every thing is setting up."

"Finding the location is just the first step for me," said Dan Bollinger of Survivor Maps. "Mapping it comes next. Topological maps of Amazonia are difficult to obtain. Instead, I went to Space Imaging and searched their online satellite image archives. I was surprised to find high-resolution images of the Ariau Towers Hotel area. In about ten minutes I selected an image and called in my purchase order."

"Space Imaging provides high-quality, map-accurate imagery from our IKONOS satellite," said Mark Brender of Space Imaging. "While most of our customers are from state and local governments and the forestry and environmental communities, we are pleased that our space-based imagery is useful for Survivor sleuths like Dan Bollinger so he can better see the world."

"This is the first time the crew will sleep in hotel room on real beds. After the rigors of Thailand, this will feel luxurious," said Bollinger "The hotel is a collection of buildings on stilts high in the Amazon rain forest canopy connected by catwalks and located at the juncture of the Rio Negro and Ariau Creek, about 40 km west of Manaus. I've heard the entire resort is reserved for Survivor production between September 22nd through December 22nd."

"It appears that the owner of Ariau Towers has secured the rights to some land in the area," said Melton. "Already rumors are flying that Survivor doesn't want to pay the extortionate amount that Ariaua is trying to charge ($500,000 per month was mentioned), and there are rumblings from the local translators who are refusing to work for the daily rate that is being offered."

Other sources say the two Tribal Camps will be located on the Rio Negro's Praia Grande (Great Beach) west of Ariau. The beach is 4-5 kilometers long. Annual flooding washes the white sand clean. The Rio Negro, a major tributary of the Rio Amazon, is 10 miles wide at this point and is known for its piranha and rose-colored freshwater dolphins.

Tribal Council is rumored to be deep in the Amazonia rain forest on the Rio Acajatuba near the small village of Nossa Senhora de Perptuo Socorro (also called Acajatuba Village) founded in 1977 by then sixteen year-old native Marlene Alves de Costa.

This is the third time Survivor has considered the Amazon as a filming location. South America is the only equatorial continent that the show hasn't filmed on. Reportedly, negotiations between Survivor Entertainment Group and Ariau Towers Hotel had stalled at times over leasing charges.

Not the Philippines - around the globe Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said on Wednesday that the hit U.S. television show, Survivor, will hold its next challenge in an undisclosed location on Siquijor Island. Survivor Maps contacted Philippine Tourism Minister Richard Gordon's office who said, "Secretary Gordon, during his trip to the United States, met with producers of the Survivor Series who intimated interest in filming episodes in the Philippines. On another note, a Japanese crew is filming its version of Survivor in Siquijor Island since September 1st."

Space Imaging and Survivor Maps made television history last year when they published an IKONOS 1-meter resolution satellite image of the Survivor: Africa camps collected during filming. This is the fourth Survivor location Survivor Maps has discovered.

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Contacts:

Dan Bollinger www.claycritters.com/map/survivormaps.htm 765-427-7012 [email protected]
Mark Brender www.spaceimaging.com 703-558-0309 [email protected]
John Melton, (speak with anyone, John is traveling) 877-888-1770 www.tropicalnaturetravel.com
Ariau Towers Hotel, http://www.ariau.tur.br, http://www.ariauamazontowers.com/index.htm
Satellite images available for publication provided credit is given to SpaceImaging.com at: www.claycritters.com/map/survivor_6_satellite_images.htm

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