Category Archive: Survivor TV Crew

Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 5 – Cruising on Crew

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Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 5- Cruising on Crew Critical Mass Week came and went. The entire Survivor film crew was finally comfortably housed in tents and bungalows. Filming got underway. My department shifted from a state of chaotic busy-ness into ‘cruise control’. My team’s new role was maintaining the ‘camp’: the rooms, tents, …

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Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 4 – Critical Mass Week and The Great Tent Catastrophe

Survivor TV Show- hundreds of tents - Survivor Thailand

Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 4  Critical Mass Week and The Great Tent Catastrophe In my last installment, Mishaps and Misadventures Behind Scenes, I detailed many of the unforeseen issues that we faced while setting up an entire tent city to house the film production crew during filming of Thailand Survivor. However, the …

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Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 3 – Mishaps and Misadventures Behind Scenes

Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 3 – Mishaps and Misadventures Behind Scenes In my last Thailand Survivor update, Crew Life, I left off in the thick of frenzy busyness. My immediate supervisor, Wendy, and I were running around doing the work of three people, since Wendy’s immediate boss had quit a few days …

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Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 2- Life on Crew

Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 2- Life on Crew So, what’s it like being part of the Survivor TV show crew? I suspect you’re all dying to hear how glamorous life is crewing one of America’s most famous and popular Reality TV shows… So here you go: Yes, I did in fact get …

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Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 1- How I Got Picked Up to Crew

Working Crew on Survivor TV Show: pt 1- How I Got Picked Up to Crew Walking along the shady road of a Thai National Park island one lazy tropical afternoon, an Australian man I’d met two days earlier caught up with me and asked, “Would you like a job?” “Say what?” He proceeded to explain …

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‘SURVIVOR’ REALITY TV SHOW CREW- INTRO

‘SURVIVOR’ REALITY TV SHOW CREW- INTRO In 2002 I worked as crew on 2 episodes of the American reality show ‘Survivor’ ! It all started when I was picked up off the beach on Koh Tarutao Island, one of Thailand’s National Park islands, as a Thai-English translator for the unit department, in charge of housing …

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