{"id":477241,"date":"2026-02-13T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:45:09","slug":"friday-flashback-australian-survivor-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477241\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flashback: Australian Survivor 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe very first Australian Survivor was so poorly received it would be 14 years before another could be attempted.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Drunk with the success of Survivor back in 2000, Nine Network greenlit the very first Australian adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>The 2002 series, hosted by 60 Minutes journalist Lincoln Howes, was filmed in Whaler\u2019s Way, an Eyre Peninsula coastal nature reserve near Port Lincoln, South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>There were 16 Australian castaways competing for 39 days for a grand prize of $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>But it struggled in the ratings, and was criticised for its casting and a weaker execution than the US production.<\/p>\n<p>In the end Rob Dickson took out the prize, but it would be 2006 before Seven attempted a short-lived Celebrity Australian Survivor, hosted by Dicko, and 2016 before 10\u2019s premium version with Jonathan LaPaglia.<\/p>\n<p>21 years on, <a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2023\/04\/australian-survivor-2002-reunion.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">members of the original cast reunited at Whaler\u2019s Way<\/a> becoming the first cast of a Survivor series anywhere in the world to return to their original filming location and have their experiences recorded.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The very first Australian Survivor was so poorly received it would be 14 years before another could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-477241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}