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Article: Why thriving `"Survivor"' dwarfs `"Big Brother"'.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- August 9, 2000
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During the final act of last week's "Survivor" episode, the intrigue reached quite a pitch.
Would Sue and Kelly abandon the successful Tagi alliance to vote against Richard, their ringleader? Would Gervase and Colleen, the last of a Pagong tribe that's been picked off one by one, persuade Kelly to align with them? Would Sean get a clue?
For those not following the blockbuster hit, currently the top-rated series on TV, the idea that such a potentially cheesy "reality" show could muster high drama might seem as foreign as the reality craze itself.
Yet Mark Burnett, the British producer of "Survivor," has managed to create a ...