Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden is
the upcoming seventeenth season of the CBS reality
television series Survivor.[1] Applications were due
on January
24, 2008. Around March 2008, 800
applicants were selected for an interview by CBS. Out of these 800, about 48
semi-finalists were selected to go to Los Angeles sometime during
April 2008. From these semi-finalists, 18 contestants were selected
to participate in the show between late June and mid-August
2008.[2]
On April
13, 2008 at the annual National Association of
Broadcasters's NAB Show, it was announced that
the 17th season would be the first to be shot in high
definition, using Sony XDCAMs.[3]
Survivor: Gabon will begin filming in late June, and
will air in September 2008.[4] It will mark the
second season of the series to be filmed in Africa, after
Survivor: Africa was
filmed seven years prior in Kenya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_17