I know it’s not Survivor related, but I wanted to let everyone know that we’ll be doing a Rockstar: Supernova site when that show starts in a month. I really liked it last year, except for who won. Marty rocks, dude! See you there.

MSN Music CBS’s Rock Star to Select Lead Singer for New Band

The new band, Supernova, formed by drummer Tommy Lee (M??tley Cr?¬?e) with bassist Jason Newsted (Metallica) and guitarist Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses)

New lead singer to be chosen from 16 hopefuls when the second edition of CBS’s Rock Star returns summer 2006.

New album to be produced by Butch Walker (Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2005 “Hot Producer Of The Year”).

CBS and Mark Burnett Productions announced today that legendary musicians from some of the biggest American rock bands have joined forces to form a new band, Supernova, and will use CBS’s Rock Star as the competition to determine the new lead singer.

Supernova will feature drummer Tommy Lee (M??tley Cr?¬?e), Jason Newsted (Metallica) and Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses). The second edition of CBS’s Rock Star will premiere on the network this summer.

After the winning singer is selected on CBS’s Rock Star, Supernova will record an original album, to be co-written and produced by Butch Walker (hit songwriter/producer for Avril Lavigne, Pink) that will be released in the fall before the band embarks on a world tour starting in early 2007.

“I’ve toured with both Gilby and Jason. They’re incredible musicians and I’ve always wanted to play with them,” said Tommy Lee. “Starting a new band with old friends on worldwide television is going to be a blast, and we’re going to pull out all the stops to find the most charismatic and musically talented lead singer to front Supernova. I love breaking the rules.” More… »

CNN.com

Richard Hatch was convicted in January of failing to pay taxes on his ‘Survivor’ winnings.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the debut season of “Survivor,” was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.

Hatch, 45, was convicted in January. The charges carried a maximum of 13 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said he issued a harsher than expected sentence because Hatch had committed perjury repeatedly during his trial.

“It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied,” Torres said.

When Hatch was convicted, Torres said he expected to sentence him to 33 to 41 months.

“I believe I’ve been completely truthful and completely forthcoming throughout the entire process,” Hatch told the judge before he was sentenced.

Hatch claimed he thought the show’s producers would pay his taxes and pleaded ignorance about money matters, saying he forgot to tell his accountants about some income.

“Survivor” earned CBS a ratings hit. Hatch became known as “the fat naked guy” — a term coined by David Letterman — for refusing to wear clothes for much of the show.

Hatch sowed seeds of conflict among his competitors, and an estimated 51 million viewers were watching when he received his winning check.

At times, he seemed to handle his criminal case like an extended reality TV competition. He abruptly walked away from a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded his innocence to Katie Couric on the “Today” show.

Hatch has been in a jail in Plymouth, Massachusetts, since his conviction.

This is a very cool thing. I wonder why they didn’t do it through ebay, but I’m glad they did it at all. Thanks, Mark!

www.prweb.com

Norfolk, VA (PRWEB) May 19, 2006 ‚Äö?Ñ?¨- Exciting new collectables have been added to the Survivor: Panama ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ Exile Island charity auction on eBay to benefit Operation Smile Panama and 24 other countries. The authentic items are signed by the castaways themselves, including name tags and the flags used during episode 12‚Äö?Ñ?¥s Perch Immunity Challenge. The charity auction is running from May 14 - June 11, 2006.

Also new to the auction is the final Tribal Council voting urn with the seven deciding jury votes for Sole Survivor, all signed by host Jeff Probst. The item fetching the highest bidding thus far is the Immunity Necklace, which has surpassed $15,000.00.

By logging onto http://www.survivorcharity.com or onto eBay fans and collectors can bid on authentic challenge-related items and other memorabilia signed by the castaways and host Jeff Probst. Items include tribal and individual immunity items as well as challenge props including hand-carved snakes, puzzle pieces, faux coffins and flags.

On Sunday, May 14, after the winner of the CBS-TV show Survivor: Panama - Exile Island was revealed, thousands of children also became winners. Mark Burnett Productions has partnered with Operation Smile to include its one-of-a-kind challenge items and memorabilia from the show in this charity auction. 100 percent of the net proceeds goes to Operation Smile, helping the charity provide free surgery to children and young adults around the world suffering with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. For every $100,000 raised, Operation Smile can help more than 400 children. To date, auction bids total more than $31,000.00 which will bring new smiles to 130 children. For more information, visit http://www.operationsmile.org

SA Survivors chosen
SA Survivors chosen
19/05/2006 21:06 - (SA)

Thinus Ferreira, Die Burger

Cape Town - The final 14 participants in Survivor SA Panama will be chosen on Monday, but M-Net will do everything possible to keep the names of the elected participants a close secret up to and until the viewing of the first episode of the reality series on September 3, 2006.

The results of the last medical tests will be received on Monday, when the participants on the shortlist will be informed who will be going to Paraguay next month.

Die Burger also heard that six additional participants would be chosen to allow substitute players to be available should anything happen to any of the 14 participants, or should any of them decide at the last moment to withdraw.

‘Top quality applications’

“From the 700 applications that made the initial shortlist it would have been possible for us easily to make two or three Survivor series, indicating how many top quality applications we did receive,” said Mr Carl Fisher, M-Net’s head of local productions, on Friday.

“It was not very easy to make a final selection.”

The producers, and M-Net, are impressed and there is a feeling that Survivor SA: Panama could become very popular, similar to Big Brother and Idols, a first for the country.

In later versions of these reality programmes participants gradually became wiser because they had seen the previous programmes and knew what to do, and not to do, when they presented themselves and completed their application forms.

“But nobody has even seen a local Survivor series and nobody who applied had any background knowledge to fall back on.”

Thick rule books

Each of the participants will receive a thick rule book on Monday and very soon watertight contracts with certain secrecy clauses will have to be signed.

“The selection process is, of course, not a scientific undertaking and we did not have unlimited time and unlimited resources, but we are full of confidence that the participants will be able to make excellent TV possible on the island,” Fisher said.

Survivor: Panama

Survivor: Panama - Exile Island
Winner: Aras Baskauskas (5-2)
Season run 2006-02-02 ���?�?� 2006-05-14
Filming Dates 2005-10-31 ���?�?� 2005-12-09
Number of episodes 14
Number of days 39
Number of survivors 16
Tribes La Mina (Orange),
Viveros (Green),
Bayoneta (Blue),
Casaya (Purple),
Gitanos (Black)
Season chronology
Previous season Survivor: Guatemala
Next season Survivor: Cook Islands

Survivor: Panama - Exile Island (”Survivor: Exile Island” for short) is the twelfth season of Survivor, and takes place in the Pearl Islands, off the coast of Panama. This location was previously used for Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: All-Stars. Filming began on 31 October 2005 and the season premiered on 2 February 2006 on CBS. The season finale was on 14 May 2006 with the votes revealed live from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. [1] In a 5-2 vote, Aras Baskauskas defeated Danielle DiLorenzo to take the $1 million prize.

Each week at least one castaway is banished for the time period between the reward challenge and the immunity challenge on Exile Island. The exile is given a single machete, a flint and a bucket of non-sanitized water. The island also contained a hidden immunity idol that could be used at tribal council after the votes have been cast. This gave the person who found the idol a strategic advantage because that person can keep the idol secret until he or she was voted off, which would cause the person with the second largest number of votes to be eliminated. As it developed, Terry found the idol and never needed to use it at a vote, but his possession of it appeared to influence how several other people voted.

The game began by splitting the 16 players into four tribes: young men, older men, young women, and older women. During the 2nd episode the Viveros and Bayoneta tribes were dissolved and in a schoolyard pick’em new tribes were drawn. In a rather interesting coincidence, each of the original four tribes was represented in the final four contestants. More… »

Here’s the latest! Aras Wins!

Survivor 12 Panama: Finale: As It Aired
title: The Final Showdown
This post was updated as Survivor aired.

Review of the season is over.
Tie breaker is now underway. Fire is life.
Cirie an early lead. Each had a fire go out. Danielle’s fire now going steady.

Danielle Wins! Terry smiles too.

Jeff Probst’s Final Thought
You’ve made it to the final three.

Cirie’s Final Words
Proud to have gotten this far.

First Interview: Danielle
Worked hard to win the fire building tie breaker. Terry talks about his pack with Danielle to go to the final two together. Terry shows them the Immunity Idol. Danielle says that she’s trapped between two macho guys who are rivals.

Reward Challenge
Reward: Power Meal, Cot & Blanket
Type of Challenge: Race Up Climbing Wall.
Terry won Reward. (No one goes to Exile Island)
Aras ahead, first up wall. Terry in second but pulls out the win. Danielle never even got all of her pegs together to try and climb the wall.

Camp. Aras and Danielle talk like they have a pact; Aras says one of us has got to win Immunity. They eat a lot of fish. Terry returns from his meal with his cot. In private Aras says this really puts the pressure on Terry to win Immunity.

Terry reads Tree Mail, it has instruction for the Survivor Memorial at Exile Island. Video memorial of the other Survivors in the order in which they left the game. They burn everyones torhces in the freaky looking skull-shaped shelter on Exile Island.

Final Immunity Challenge
Type of Challenge: Balance on a Series of Floating Platforms.
Danielle won Final Immunity.
Fifteen minutes on each platform, they get smaller each time.
All three move on to the Second Platform.
All three move on to the Third Platform. This is a hard one to balance on. Terry had trouble even starting and is the first one to fall off. Aras goes off shortly afterwards.

Danielle wins the final Immunity! Her first one too. Will she chose Terry to be in the final two with her?

Scheming Is Free
Danielle says that she will take who she thinks has the best chance of beating. So much for that pact with Terry. Terry is calmly making his case with her (Aras not present). Basically he says he’s the one because of Casaya loyalty. Now Aras and Danielle talking. Aras claims to have Cirie’s vote and if Danielle doesn’t take him to the final two then she will lose both their votes.

Tribal Council
Danielle says it’s an honor to win final immunity. Terry admits he had the Immunity Idol. Aras says he though he was easily the choice to be in the final two with Danielle. Danielle says again how conflicted she is. Time to vote.
Danielle selects Aras to be in the Final Two with her. As Terry leaves he says to Danielle “You lied” and then to everyone ‘Thanks for the adventure.’

Jeff Probst’s Final Thought
Congratulations to Danielle and Aras, the power now shifts to the Jury.

Terry’s Final Words
My biggest mistake was not keeping the game in my hands . . . not bad for a 46 year old guy.

Last Day at Camp
Aras says that he has played with integredy. Danielle decided on Aras because of the Casaya connection. She trusted her gut. Food in the morning to help celebrate the final two. Aras slips and falls while drinking from a champagne glass and cuts himself on the back and hand. Danielle kind of freaks out. The doctors/medics show up to stitch Aras. Aras gets all philosophical about his accident. Aras and Danielle are all hugy and nice to each other.

The Jury
Opening Statements
Aras: wow guys, thank you, amazing experience. Worked my butt off in camp and challenges. I made an effort to get to know each of you. I played with integrity.

Danielle: Thank you making this an unbelieveable experience. I tried to play my best.

Questions
Sally: of 6 Casaya who helped the most to get you here?
Danielle names Cirie. Aras also says Cirie.

Bruce: What will responsibility of million dollars do?
Aras: try and make myself a better person.
Danielle: Share experience with young people.

Terry: rate 1 to 10 and why? (anger at Danielle first)
Aras: 9. Tried real hard.
Danielle: 8.5, 9. Cheesburger regret.

Austin: 1 positive move, 1 negative move?
Danielle: keep Bruce, Bob Dog off. Voting Courtney off bad, hard.
Aras: telling Melinda she’s going. Not proud of voting off Shane.

Courtney: (rambles) What did you really learn about yourself?
Aras: My ego has been smashed.
Danielle: I didn’t realize how mentally strong I can be.

Cirie: Why vote for other?
Danielle: Aras is an honorable and great person.
Aras: Danielle helped me after I cut my hand.

Shane: Terry most deserving. You two both are undeserving. Danielle never did anything. Aras, we had an agreement! You lied!! Judge on actions. I can’t decide and I can’t abstain so pick a number between 1 and a million.
Danielle: 10
Aras: 4

Final Statements (They both dealt with what Shane said about them.)
Danielle: wanted to be strong, be myself and make alliances. Feel played with honesty and integridy. Personaly I feel I grew. I think I did outwit, outplay and outlast.

Aras: Tough choice, I played the best way I know. Shane I’m sorry. Thank you guys.

Time to vote. Bruce is shown voting for Danielle and Terry for Aras.
Danielle: 2
Aras: 4

Aras Wins!

Terry finally lost a reward challenge to Aras tonight and then he lost an Immunity Challenge to Aras.

Danielle aligned herself with Terry as Aras took Cirie on a luxury yacht for the reward. Danielle and Terry were both sent to Exile Island together.

Tribal Council saw Danielle and Terry vote for Aras while Aras and Cirie voted for Danielle. Aras had won immunity and Terry had the Hidden Immunity Idol.

Since it was a tie vote, both Danielle and Cirie had to do the fire building challenge. Last one to burn through a rope and release their flag goes home. The challenege started and then it was…

To Be Continued…

Come back Sunday night to see who will be the last survivor!

Here’s the blow by blow from survivor 12-

Survivor 12 Panama

First Interview: Cirie
At night after last week’s Tribal Council Cirie gets into an argument with Terry, she calls him ‘King Terry’ and ‘Captain America.’ Terry was upset at Cirie for leaving things lying around camp.

Reward Challenge
Reward: Tour of Panama Canal on Luxury Yacht (and decide who gets Exile)
Type of Challenge: Mental - rope maze, assemble puzzle.
Aras won Reward (chose Cirie to share canal tour). Danielle and Terry Exiled.
Very close through 5 numbers found. Cirie and Danielle working to block Terry. However Terry first to start unlocking locks (Aras second). Aras wins and Terry complains about the rules of the game.

Canal Tour (Aras & Cirie): fly to yacht and 5 course meal. Drink champagne to final four. Talk about Terry whining at challenge. They go through the Canal and it looks pretty cool. [Did I read somewhere they’re planning on widening the canal?]

Exile Island (Danielle & Terry): Terry says Aras getting emotional lately. Terry says that at the challange he was just trying to get a ruling on how he screwed up [it sounded like whining to me]. Planning for if Terry wins Immunity - he’ll give Immunity Idol to Danielle and they’ll vote off Aras.

Back at Camp (Aras & Cirie): Cirie tries to start fire with flint, says it’s the first time for her. She’s successful too.

Immunity Challenge
Type of Challenge: 3 Puzzles.
Aras won Immunity (Terry a close second).
Aras led early, Cirie fell behind early. Danielle has trouble finding puzzle pieces. Down to Aras and Terry.

Scheming Is Free
Terry goes to Aras and says that he needs an apolgy from him. Aras apologizes to Terry for saying Terry hates women at the Reward Challenge. Terry accepts and they shake hands.

Danielle worried about a tie, 2 votes each for Cirie and Danielle. They expect a fire building challenge to break the tie. Aras gives Cirie fire making tips.

Tribal Council
First Questioned: Aras.
Vote was a tie! Idol not used.
Tie breaker fire making challenge.
And the winner is . . . to be continued!!
Sunday night is the Big Final on CBS.

May 14 is the Survivor Season Finale!

Final Four is Terry, Cirie, Danielle, and Aras!

Here is the quick version of tonight’s show. More details and photos to come. It’s finally getting juicy!

Survivor 12 Panama

First Interview: Shane
Shane shocked at last week’s Tribal Council. Cirie and Aras have a ’story’ to placate him - ‘no time to let him know.’ Shane seems to be believing it. Shane is happy that Courtney is gone. Terry feels Danielle lied to him so he’s after her now.

Reward Challenge
Reward: Family visit.
Type of Challenge: Replay of Parts of Past Challenges.
Terry won Reward. Danielle Exiled (without even a hug from her mother). Shane and Terry get over-night visits with loved ones at a luxury island. Cirie’s Husband visits camp for a night. Aras hugs his mother and she leaves.
Shane out first. Cirie out. Danielle out. It was down to Aras and Terry and Aras dropped something and had to start over which allowed Terry to win.

Exile Island: Danielle disappointed as she chops a coconut.

Camp:
Cirie gets a kick out of showing her husband (HB?) around camp. He admits that she smells bad. They never were even camping before. They’re putting HB to work so they can save their energy. [Apparently ‘HB’ is short for Hunny Bunny.]

Luxury Escape:
Terry, Shane and family raid the fridge. Terry’s wife says he’s lost weight. Shane tells Boston (his son) about the game so far. Sounds like they’re going to target Danielle. Boston says that Shane is like a kid [no duh!].

(Terry and Shane return to Camp) Terry has to explain his choices after winning Reward. Aras upset at Terry’s callousness regarding the choices he made. Terry feels Aras came unglued a bit.

Immunity Challenge
Type of Challenge: Balance on a Perch in the Water, pour water to raise a flag.
Terry won Immunity (fifth straight time!).
Shane way behind. Aras a close second again.

Scheming Is Free
Shane talks like Danielle is the next one voted off, says he has Cirie’s vote. In private Terry says that he’d like to be in the final two with Shane. Aras in confessional says that he has set up Shane. Shane feels like he could beat anybody [is he Bamboozled?].

Tribal Council
First Questioned: Terry.
Shane was voted off, as he leaves he says “I’m going to have a chocolate ice cream bar in about one minute, one minute!’
Terry has a look of disbelief on his face, he seems more upset than Shane.

Jeff Probst’s Final Thought
The last two Tribal Councils the person voted off has been absolutely shocked. If trust wasn’t an issue before tonight then it should be from here on out.

Shane’s Final Words
Ahh . . I got duped, blind-sided . . . this will be the toughest thing I do in my life . . . He tells Boston that he’s proud of how he played but disapponted about how it turned out.