When “Survivor” returns to Global with its 41st season later this month, the 18 new castaways will be attempting to outwit, outplay and outlast their way to a million-dollar prize on the island of Fiji, the series’ home since the 33rd season.
However, there was some uncertainty about whether the show would be returning to Fiji when the pandemic hit last spring, throwing producers plans’ for the season into disarray and causing some unorthodox ideas to be bounced around. “It was March 2020 when we made the official decision to postpone shooting Survivor 41 in Fiji,” Probst recalled in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “We immediately turned our full attention to finding another location and even considered shooting domestically in