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Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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Survivor has been steadily dropping in the overall rankings though.

Vanuatu/Palau - 6th/5th
Guatemala/Panama - 8th/11th
Cook Islands/Fiji - 13th/15th
Gabon/Tocantins - 15th/19th

I left out China/Micronesia because their increase was caused by the writer's strike. Survivor (especially the spring cycle) is in jeopardy of falling out of the TV network overall top 20. That is still good enoug for it to stay on the air but the it indicates that the show does have an expiration date.

Because people are sick of the HII and the editing.

The largest decline in viewers that ever happened was the drop off from Australia to Africa and there was no HII in Survivor Africa.

Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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Survivor has been steadily dropping in the overall rankings though.

Vanuatu/Palau - 6th/5th
Guatemala/Panama - 8th/11th
Cook Islands/Fiji - 13th/15th
Gabon/Tocantins - 15th/19th

I left out China/Micronesia because their increase was caused by the writer's strike. Survivor (especially the spring cycle) is in jeopardy of falling out of the TV network overall top 20. That is still good enoug for it to stay on the air but the it indicates that the show does have an expiration date.

Because people are sick of the HII and the editing.

The largest decline in viewers that ever happened was the drop off from Australia to Africa and there was no HII in Survivor Africa.

Yes. The drop off came from from casual viewers who realized that Survivor wasn't what they thought it was. If you recall though, the ratings stayed pretty much consistent until All Stars. Vanuatu and Palau had editing that emphasized strategy and challenges over the people themselves, which at least partially contributed to its lower ratings I think(In addition to antipathy from the general audience towards All Stars). And they have dropped off ever since.

And MyPoody, you aren't that much more respected than I am around these parts. This place is mostly a cesspool anyway, so I'm glad that I'm not well liked.

Actually Palau was a popular season with good ratings. With Vanuatu, the ratings dropped somewhat because the early episodes were slow and there were no standout characters. I'd say that there wasn't much antipathy from the general public because of All Stars. All Stars was the only season where a good majority of the audience stayed put to watch the Reunion show.

The decline in ratings has little to do with the HII but rather that the overall concept is getting stale. How many tribal councils and vote out discussions are people going to watch until they get tired of it?

Personally, I found consecutive stretches of post-merge episodes for the early seasons (Australia/Africa/Marquesas/Thailand) to be very boring because the contestants played too conservatively and were too weak and hungry to do much of anything. The HII and blindside antics of the post-merge for Micronesia beats the crap out of Ethan talking about Big Tom's boil or watching footage of the Barramundi tribe staring at the campfire.