Overview
- Season 50, subtitled In the Hands of the Fans, premiered Feb. 25 with a three-hour opener and shifts to 90-minute episodes on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
- Viewers can watch on CBS or stream live with Paramount+ Premium, with Paramount+ Essential offering episodes the following day.
- Fans helped shape the season’s format through prefilming votes on game elements such as hidden immunity idols and the final four fire-making challenge.
- The record cast features 24 returning players spanning the show’s history, including Cirie Fields, Ozzy Lusth, Mike White, Dee Valladares, Colby Donaldson and Savannah Louie.
- CBS launched a nationwide Survivor50 Challenge hiding 50 idols across all U.S. states, while celebrity tie-ins and Jeff Probst’s tease that he will ‘compete’ add extra wrinkles this season.