Survivor Tocantins

In Brazil, Survivor challenge producer John Kirhoffer told me that “for all of our river challenges coming up, we have back-ups: giant puzzles that we can do on land.” That was because of the impending rainy season, and the show’s previous experience with a river location: “When we were in Australia the first time, the rainy season came, and camp got flooded away, challenges got washed away,” he said. “Also, if the river rises too much and becomes unsafe to put contestants in—that water, once you get some water flowing, it can be dangerous—if it becomes a state where it’s just too dangerous to put people in, we’ll just move inland and do some land challenges.”