Survivor SA is a reality programme, but even behind the scenes of reality TV there are things that viewers will never see. Here are some of the tamer “reality facts” from behind the scenes of this serie

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• Each team gets a first aid chest with bandages, nine different pills and basic medicine like snakebite serum. It may only be used in extreme emergencies. Every day the seal is checked to see if it has been tampered with.
• Remember that it takes the cameras between two and three days to shoot one episode. All this film material is edited down to a single episode of 45 minutes.
• When nature calls, participants have to take to the bushes. They are given only a spade (no toilet paper!) and refer to it as “time to go to the office”. Cameras (fortunately!) don’t go along.
• When it was time for a person who was voted out to grab a torch and hand it to Mark Bayly to extinguish, the torch in question often just refused to go out!
• Teams really don’t get any food.
• The women had to shave their underarm hair, and their legs were waxed shortly before the start of the programme. The men had no choice but to let their beards grow.
• Participants were given contraceptives. One participant asked for more.
• The different constructions used for the various immunity- and reward challenges were often built right next to each other. Different countries film their own Survivor series at the same time and use the same constructions, often with minimal changes.
• The production team may not eat, drink or smoke in front of the participants; they are not allowed to talk to them and may also not stare at them.
• Normal coffee is used to make certain items look “older”.
• The immunity idol does not really stay with the winning team after they have won it. It is immediately given back to the production team.
• Each time the participants walk into the tribe meeting, their position in the queue is precisely determined.

(Beeld, 13 September 2006)
 

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