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\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Jeff Probst<\/strong><\/a> is teasing what\u2019s to come in Survivor<\/strong><\/a><\/em> season 51!<\/p>\n The 64-year-old host and executive producer will return this week for the kickoff of the Open Era of the hit, long-running CBS series, and has revealed something that\u2019s coming back from season 50, but with a twist.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things of the Open Era is you can take any idea you\u2019ve ever done and put it back into the show. You can also take an idea you\u2019ve done, put it back into the show with a twist,\u201d Jeff<\/strong> shared with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>. \u201cSo we took an idea from 50, this idea of a million dollar coin flip. We said, \u2018What if we put that in the show every season? And every season, one player gets to flip a coin, and if you call it correctly, we\u2019ll add a million dollars to the pot for that season.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen we put a twist on it. Same rules as 50 with one difference,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf you call it incorrectly, you as a coin flipper are out, that million dollars rolls into the next season of Survivor<\/em>. So in Survivor<\/em> 51, at some point, a player\u2019s going to flip a coin for a million dollars. If they land it, the prize pool will be $2 million for 51. If they don\u2019t land it, that million dollars will go into Survivor<\/em> 52 and somebody will flip a $2 million coin making the prize money $3 million. And if that doesn\u2019t land, it\u2019ll go into 53. It will go until it pays off and then it\u2019ll start again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s the most innovative twist in prize money in the history of unscripted television, because that million dollars is a living, breathing thing. And the question is, where is it going to land and how many of them will there be when it does land?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTake all things, old, new, combine them, whatever you want to do. But that twist is really fun,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd imagine where it could go. It could pay off every season and suddenly it\u2019s $2 million every season. It could not pay off for three or four seasons and suddenly somebody\u2019s flipping a coin for three or $4 million.\u201d <\/p>\n Jeff<\/strong> also teased more about what fans can expect in the Open Era. <\/p>\n \u201cThere are some other things that we haven\u2019t done in a while. I\u2019d like to bring Folklore back where I tell a story and then with your cognitive decline happening, you have to remember facts from the story. We used to like to shoot those at night. That requires a bit of production help. We need a lot of fire. It\u2019s a big setup,\u201d Jeff<\/strong> told THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are things like that that are absolutely on the table as are things like themed seasons. If in casting we realize we\u2019ve got David vs Goliath II<\/em> happening. Great, we\u2019ll do it. As are uneven men and women. We have 11 women, 10 men because we had 21 great people and we didn\u2019t go, let\u2019s make it even. Let\u2019s not fall into any conventional traps. Don\u2019t base tribes based on gender. We might do a season where we have a lot more women on one tribe because we think they\u2019re even the way they\u2019re designed.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cSo if you really just keep opening and opening and opening your mind to the idea that when we say anything is possible, we mean anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Season 51 kicks off with a special two-hour episode on\u00a0Wednesday, September 23\u00a0<\/strong>(8:00-10:00 PM, ET\/PT) on CBS, and streaming on Paramount+ live and on demand for Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs.<\/p>\n The show then shifts to 90-minute weekly episodes beginning\u00a0Wednesday, September 30<\/strong>\u00a0at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n Meet the 21 castaways here!<\/a><\/p>\n Posted To:CBS<\/a> Jeff Probst<\/a> surivor<\/a> Television<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Group](\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/survivor-51-cast-788x525.jpg\")
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