Survivors Ready?...

Welcome to the not-particularly-official Irish blog for fans of the reality TV show Survivor!*

'Why do we need yet another blog for yet another TV show?' I hear you moan. Well...Quiet! This is not Tribal Council, and even if it were, I haven't given you permission to speak yet!

OK, first, take your torch and light it. Fire represents your life in this blog; as long as you have fire you are safe. Now, take your spot on the bench and pass around the coconut husks while I explain...

We started this blog because we are huge Survivor fans. (We've been watching since the beginning man, since Borneo, when Richard out-played everyone, even himself...wait, that doesn't even make sense...damn, this coconut milk is strong!). But because of the way these things are scheduled, the season has usually been aired in completion over in the States by the time we start to watch it over here. This makes visiting any of the official Survivor sites an unfortunate game of risk, where you try to glean the information you seek without stumbling upon any of the (large, brightly coloured) announcements of who has been voted out, or indeed who has been crowned sole Survivor. Alas, one of our party has fallen foul of this mechanism already this season. I will not name names; you know who you are, poor soul.

So, since Survivor 14: Fiji started airing on Irish TV station TG4 (súil eile) this very night, we have hastily cobbled together this blog for all you Survivor fans out there, huddled together under your palm fronds, eyes wild and wide in the rain-lashed night, battling camp-invading rats, sea snakes, and those weird crabs with the funny eyes that they always show...

We, your hosts, shall get things underway in the next few posts (guys, wake up *pokes with machete*), but for now, join us for the next 36 days on the island (that's another 13 episodes, not including those boring re-cap ones they always do), as we don our buffs and head to the beach!

Survivors ready?...Go!


*this blog is in no way affiliated with TG4, CBS, Charlie Parsons, the Survivor television show, its creators, participants, or Jeff Probst :(