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Here is an excerpt from the ETS site for your comment. I think the world is just getting sicker by the day. It seems like the draw card will be seeing people really die trying to survive. John Ritter slates the Survivor series by Mark Burnett as if his is going to be any better.....BARF :barf:
Mr. Ritter....at least Mark Burnett does his with human dignity and entertainment in mind...not like you plan.
I rest my case.
Mods, please feel free to move this elsewhere.
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ETS Survival News Equipped To Survive
Issue 1, Volume 2 March 32, 2004
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ETS Survival News is an irregularly published
compendium of news related to survival, survival
gear and search and rescue. Published with
support from the Equipped To Survive Foundation.
Please visit us at: http://www.equipped.org
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EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE TO PRODUCE SURVIVAL TV SERIES
Doug Ritter, editor of Equipped To Survive, announced
Monday a 5 million dollar deal to develop and produce a
reality-based survival show for ESPN Sports. The new
survival series, tentatively dubbed "Are You Equipped To
Survive?," will feature individuals with minimal survival
skills placed in extraordinary survival circumstances.
Survivors will win up to 10 million dollars, with their
actual winnings to be determined by how long they last
before giving up and by points awarded by a judging team of
real-life survivors headed by Steven Callahan, an Equipped
To Survive Foundation board member, who survived 76 days
adrift in a life raft.
Said Ritter, "this will be about real survival, not that BS
that Mark Burnett's absurd Survivor series foists on the
ignorant masses. I've been working on this concept since
those imbecilic shows first started airing and we have
finally found a solid partner with the financial
wherewithal in ESPN Sports."
ESPN Sports spokesperson Don B. Levitt noted, "this will be
a series that pits a person against nature in a one-on-one
battle for survival. There's nothing more thrilling in
sports than when life is on the line."
Each contestant will be provided an Adventure Medical Kits
Pocket Survival Pak designed by Doug Ritter and will be
allowed to select 2 additional pieces of survival equipment
or supplies from a variety of offerings, some good, some
not so good. Their battle to survive starts with their gear
selection. They will then be blindfolded and taken to a
remote and inhospitable environment where they will be left
on their own to survive. Cameras will follow as the
survivor attempts to master their environment.
Without the artifice of teams and the like, there will not
be any voting of participants off the island. A contestant
who doesn't cut it will either live to quit, or die trying
to survive. In the latter case, the survivor's next of kin
will receive their winnings up to the point that they
expired. Ritter explained, "the fact that some participants
will no doubt die during the series is expected to capture
the audience's imagination, there's more than just egos at
risk and we're not planning on saving them from their own
mistakes. If they screw up bad enough, they lose--big time-
-just like in a real life survival situation." Production
is expected to start in summer of 2004 with the first
series to air early in 2005."
Mr. Ritter....at least Mark Burnett does his with human dignity and entertainment in mind...not like you plan.
I rest my case.
Mods, please feel free to move this elsewhere.
-----------------------------------------------------------
ETS Survival News Equipped To Survive
Issue 1, Volume 2 March 32, 2004
-----------------------------------------------------------
***********************************************************
ETS Survival News is an irregularly published
compendium of news related to survival, survival
gear and search and rescue. Published with
support from the Equipped To Survive Foundation.
Please visit us at: http://www.equipped.org
***********************************************************
EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE TO PRODUCE SURVIVAL TV SERIES
Doug Ritter, editor of Equipped To Survive, announced
Monday a 5 million dollar deal to develop and produce a
reality-based survival show for ESPN Sports. The new
survival series, tentatively dubbed "Are You Equipped To
Survive?," will feature individuals with minimal survival
skills placed in extraordinary survival circumstances.
Survivors will win up to 10 million dollars, with their
actual winnings to be determined by how long they last
before giving up and by points awarded by a judging team of
real-life survivors headed by Steven Callahan, an Equipped
To Survive Foundation board member, who survived 76 days
adrift in a life raft.
Said Ritter, "this will be about real survival, not that BS
that Mark Burnett's absurd Survivor series foists on the
ignorant masses. I've been working on this concept since
those imbecilic shows first started airing and we have
finally found a solid partner with the financial
wherewithal in ESPN Sports."
ESPN Sports spokesperson Don B. Levitt noted, "this will be
a series that pits a person against nature in a one-on-one
battle for survival. There's nothing more thrilling in
sports than when life is on the line."
Each contestant will be provided an Adventure Medical Kits
Pocket Survival Pak designed by Doug Ritter and will be
allowed to select 2 additional pieces of survival equipment
or supplies from a variety of offerings, some good, some
not so good. Their battle to survive starts with their gear
selection. They will then be blindfolded and taken to a
remote and inhospitable environment where they will be left
on their own to survive. Cameras will follow as the
survivor attempts to master their environment.
Without the artifice of teams and the like, there will not
be any voting of participants off the island. A contestant
who doesn't cut it will either live to quit, or die trying
to survive. In the latter case, the survivor's next of kin
will receive their winnings up to the point that they
expired. Ritter explained, "the fact that some participants
will no doubt die during the series is expected to capture
the audience's imagination, there's more than just egos at
risk and we're not planning on saving them from their own
mistakes. If they screw up bad enough, they lose--big time-
-just like in a real life survival situation." Production
is expected to start in summer of 2004 with the first
series to air early in 2005."
