A Sense of Doubt blog post #3298 - Jeff Probst To Get Tougher at Tribal Council
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https://ew.com/survivor-host-jeff-probst-ready-to-get-tougher-at-tribal-council-8598024
Survivor host Jeff Probst is ready to get tougher at Tribal Council
"I'm ready to saddle back up, get on the horse, and sling a few arrows."
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The kinder, gentler new era of Survivor that began with season 41 has, for the most part, featured casts of players who now seem more inclined as a jury to build people up at final Tribal Council rather than tear them down. But the post-Covid stretch of seasons has also featured a more genial host. And that move was very much intentional.
“When the new era started, I was definitely full of positivity, and I wanted to be a show that parents felt good about watching with their kids,” Jeff Probst tells EW. “There was so much going on in the world. I wanted to say, ‘Hey man, this is a safe show. We're still going to talk about uncomfortable things. You'll still root for and against people and all that stuff. But there's going to be an air of: Come on man, let's just do this. Let's figure this out. Let's bring a bunch of people together from different walks of life. Let's just have some fun and play a game. Somebody wins, a lot of people lose.'”
But that era of complete positivity and good vibes may be starting to shift just a bit. Not only did several players in the Survivor 46 cast predict “explosions and arguments” this season after spending a few days together on location before the game began, but they may no longer be getting a free pass from the master of ceremonies at Tribal Council.
“I did find a different part of my personality coming out at Tribal,” Probst says about the upcoming Survivor 46 (which premieres Feb 28 on CBS). “And I think you're going to see it and feel it.”
This reporter went on location for the start of the season and did see it and feel it at the very first Tribal Council. While Probst remains very respectful of the contestants, making sure not to divulge any of their secrets, he was also starting to feel that contestants were getting a little too comfortable at Tribal, believing the host would not call them out like he used to do to players in older seasons.
Some of that edge may now be coming back, and it could all be thanks to a bag of rice. The moment of inspiration actually came from a member of the Survivor crew named Keoni Smith. When the creative team was planning out an immunity challenge negotiation for Survivor 45 in which Probst would offer the tribe a big bag of rice if a certain number of players would agree to sit out of the challenge, Smith brought up the possibility of adding some immediate pressure to the proceedings by having the host literally stab the bag of rice with a knife so that the food started spilling out onto the ground — forcing the contestants to make an immediate decision.
“It was his idea to put the knife in the bag of rice,” Probst says. “And the minute he said it, I thought: Oh my God, he just unlocked the part of me that needs to come back. He's a hundred percent right.”
Perhaps that explains why Probst announced on Live With Kelly and Mark that Survivor quitters like season 45’s Hannah Rose and Sean Edwards will no longer get their torch snuffed. And it also explains why viewers will notice a subtle shift in the way Probst handles players at Tribal Council moving forward.
“That part of me is starting to come back,” Probst says. “I'm ready to saddle back up, get on the horse, and sling a few arrows. So I think over the next year you'll start to see that coming back into play, and I hope the players will enjoy the banter and the back and forth.”
When it comes to the players, that remains to be seen, but viewers certainly will.
Survivor 46 premieres Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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- The Survivor 46 contestants each explain why they will win the season
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