Survivor
It's from 2000, before you were born.
- Network
- CBS
- Genre
- Reality competition
- Premiered
- 2000
- Note
- launched the reality-TV boom
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About
As of 2026, it's 26 years old.
Survivor stranded strangers on an island in 2000, told them to vote each other off one by one, and more or less detonated the modern reality-TV era in the process. 'Outwit, Outplay, Outlast' turned scheming, alliances, and torch-snuffing into a genuine national obsession and a Wednesday-night ritual.
It proved audiences would happily watch real people backstab each other for a million dollars, launching a thousand imitators and a permanent new genre.
Cutthroat, dramatic, and weirdly enduring, Survivor is the show that turned 'the tribe has spoken' into TV's most satisfying four-word execution.
Survivor season by season
Survivor has run for 50 seasons (2000–2026) across 731 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
