- Date: May 31, 2000
- Type: Television Series
This Television Series is referred to by Took part of The Wire Season 5
Clay Davis, on the witness stand, compares his constituents to people who compete on reality shows like, 'Survivor' and 'Fear Factor'. Senator Davis says the people in his district are living the real thing every day of their lives.
The show maroons a group of strangers (as one or more tribes) in a desolate locale, where they must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves, while competing in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from expulsion from the game in the next of the successive votes for elimination. While much rarer than elimination by vote, medical conditions, such as injury or infection, have eliminated several contestants. The last two or three survivors face a jury historically comprising of at least the last seven players voted off. That jury interrogates the final few, and then votes for the winner of the title of Sole Survivor and a million dollar prize.