‘Survivor’ Streaming Viewership Skyrockets 83% From Last Year, ‘Amazing Race’ Up 32% as Shows Shift to 90-Minute Format (EXCLUSIVE) (2024)

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Which has more viewers, Survivor or Amazing Race? ›

Viewership of the “Survivor” Season 45 premiere broadcast was about even with the previous season's debut, with both bringing in about 5 million viewers. “The Amazing Race” Season 35 broadcast was viewed by an average 2.6 million viewers, down from last year's 3 million.

As television viewership in general has declined over the years, ratings for “Survivor” have largely weathered the storm, finding success with younger audiences. Having first aired in 2000, the series helped inaugurate an era of reality TV, and has managed to remain a fan favorite among U.S. audiences.

Two decades into its run, it entered a “new era” after the COVID-19 lockdown, leaving viewers unsure of whether the show could recover after network television seemingly hit a decline. However, the show returned with high ratings, continuing its streak of respectable viewership.

Survivor has been up overall this season with about 4% average audience growth year-over-year in multi-platform viewing. Paramount Global says the increase comes from digital viewing, as linear stayed even with Season 45. Season 45 averaged more than 6M viewers per episode.

The Amazing Race is a long-running reality series that awards money to every contestant, and it's time to talk about how much cash the cast members get. The show, now running for 32 seasons, features 11 teams of two. Both halves of each team usually have a pre-existing relationship.

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After two series Survivors will not be returning.” Although it did not refer to the issue directly, it is clear that – as far as the BBC's drama commissioning editors were concerned – Survivors was drawing in too few viewers for both its production budget and for its time slot.

“How we landed at 26 days to begin with was Covid…. The requirements of starting with a 14-day quarantine and then doing two 39-day seasons back-to-back and not being able to ever leave the island for anything once we started — we just couldn't do it. So we had to get creative. We landed at 26 days.”

1 among adults 25-54 since it debuted in 2000. The series reclaimed that title in the 2021/2022 broadcast season for the first time since 2001/2002. Survivor also continues to be Top 5 in total viewers among non-sports programming, and it comes in behind The Voice (both Monday and Tuesday airings) to be the No.

As The New Yorker wrote in December 2021, “Survivor is still compulsively watchable … a rare [example of] a well-established franchise making room for genuine evolution”. Jeff Probst hosts Survivor: Winners at War, the show's 40th season which aired in 2019.

Did Hulu get rid of Survivor? ›

Although you can watch Survivor through Hulu's on-demand streaming service, you need access to CBS through Hulu + Live TV if you want all seasons of Survivor. Hulu + Live TV has four package options of 90+ channels.

We no longer get current day updates on what the contestants are up to or what they look like now. Dee and Austin entered a showmance during the season and fans want to know if they're still a couple in real life. Both of them are speaking out! Yes, they are still together, but they're taking things slow.

But castaways who fail to win their season can still make a big chunk of change. For instance, the second place castaway in any given survivor is typically given a whopping $100,000. While this is before taxes, it's a substantial consolation prize. Similarly, the third place contestant makes $85,000.

The eliminated player has a final confessional to express their feelings about being eliminated before they are sequestered with other eliminated players until the end of filming. Later eliminated players join the jury who will decide the winner. Jurors are sequestered until the end of the Final Tribal Council.

The show generously compensates all contestants, or castaways, who make it to the final tribal council. Typically, each receives around $10,000 for the reunion show. The third-place winner can tack on an additional $85,000 (before taxes), with the second-place adding an extra $100,000.

Although it has moved around several prime time slots, the program has averaged about 10 million viewers per season.

SURVIVOR finishes its 46th season as the #1 entertainment show among viewers in Adults 18-34, A18-49 and A25-54. This marks the first time it has won all three demos in a season since its second season in 2000-2001. SURVIVOR beats the #2 reality program THE BACHELOR in A25-54 by 1.1 million viewers.