Jeff Probst Reveals Early Plans for SURVIVOR Season 50

Published: April 30, 2024

Jeff Probst Reveals Early Plans for SURVIVOR Season 50

By Movieguide® Contributor

Though Season 50 of SURVIVOR won’t air until 2026, host Jeff Probst recently revealed a tentative plan for what it might look like during a live Q&A session.

“I just got an idea. SURVIVOR 50 is coming down the corner. The truth is, we really do focus on 47 and 48, that’s what we’re headed out to shoot next, and then we have to shoot 49. But we know 50 is coming, so I am curious, is there a feeling, should 50 be another season with new players and don’t make it a big deal?” Probst asked the the live audience. “Or should it be returning players?”

The crowd made it clear that they heavily favored bringing players back, shouting “no” to the first question and cheering when Probst asked the second one.

“In the spirit of sometimes letting the game be in the hands of the fans, I feel like—and there are a couple of people from CBS right now going, ‘Oh my God, what is happening?’—I feel like we should just commit and make this the moment where we decide that SURVIVOR 50 will be returning characters,” he said.

“I don’t know what is going to happen after his, but I’m pretty sure we’re committed,” he added.

It is not surprising that the show is doing something special for the major milestone of 50 seasons. In the past, it has celebrated similar achievements through special themes. Season 20 saw the combination of past heroes and villains, while Season 40 was comprised solely of returning winners. With Season 50 in the pipeline, Probst is concerned with how the show will truly set this milestone apart.

“If we get to 50, what are we going to do?” he told Entertainment Weekly in an earlier interview. “What is the idea that would be fun to do?”

Luckily for Probst, production still has plenty of time to figure out the answer. The show is currently airing Season 46, with Seasons 47 and 48 filming this summer. SURVIVOR 50 won’t go into production until around Memorial Day of 2025, and it won’t air until the spring of 2026.

Movieguide® previously reported on SURVIVOR:

Mike Gabler recently became the winner of season 43 of CBS’ hit competition show SURVIVOR.

However, Gabler quickly revealed that he would donate the entire $1 million prize to veterans.

Gabler, 52, made up his mind early on in the season that if he won he would donate all the prize money.

“There are people who need that money more,” Gabler told SURVIVOR host Jeff Probst. “And I’m going to donate the entire prize — the entire million dollar prize, in my father’s name, Robert Gabler, who was a Green Beret — to veterans in need who are recovering from psychiatric problems, PTSD, and curb the suicide epidemic.”