After yet another failed negotiation over rice, longtime Survivor host Jeff Probst admitted producers might do away with the offer entirely. Thanks to a reduction in game length from 39 days to 26 days and the tendency for modern players to turn on their own alliance members, castaways are increasingly unlikely to trade a shot at immunity for food. Since Survivor isn’t interested in having recurring segments that turn into nothing, producers are apparently going to talk about scrapping it.
At least that’s what Probst said when the subject came up during an episode of his On Fire Podcast. He said players have “evolved the game” and as producers, they may need to evolve with it. He said there’s no final answer for what we’ll see in Survivor 51 and beyond, but it will be a talking point as they figure out the specifics of the gameplay.
