Celebrity show survives axe

IT endured one flop this week but the Seven Network appears to be on safer ground with the debut of its new show Celebrity Survivor.


The cast of Celebrity Survivor at a Channel Seven get-together. Picture: AAP IMAGE

Hosted by Ian “Dicko” Dickson, Celebrity Survivor is a carbon copy of Nine’s long-running US hit Survivor.

While appearing to lack some of the key ingredients of the original format — such as unpleasant, whining Americans — Seven’s Celebrity Survivor managed to pull in 1.31 million viewers on Thursday night in the slot recently vacated by Lost.

Attempting to survive on a tropical Vanuatu island are 12 celebrity castaways.

Seven will be satisfied with Celebrity Survivor’s debut after dumping its million-dollar quiz show The Master after just one show.