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(CBS4) BOSTON The latest group of Survivors are about to try their best to outwit, outplay and outlast their competitors. 16 strangers, including two with ties to Massachusetts, will compete for $1 million in Survivor: Panama – Exile Island.

This season features a couple of new twists. The Survivors will start out in four tribes of four members each, divided along age and gender lines. Each week at least one person will be banished to a separate tiny island, miles away from the others.

24 year-old Danielle DiLorenzo will start the game on the “Younger Women” team. She grew up in Lynnfield and attended Lynnfield High School, where she played soccer, basketball and track. Danielle was also a competitive gymnast and model with Ford Modeling Agency. She graduated from Northeastern University and now lives in Florida.

Survivor Dan Barry lives in South Hadley with his wife of 24 years. 52 year-old Barry is a retired astronaut, who has been on three space flights. He enjoys flying, tennis, sailing, running and calls the Red Sox and Patriots his favorite teams. Dan starts the game on the “Older Men” team.

The new season of Survivor premiers Thursday, February 2 at 8pm on CBS4.

http://cbs4boston.com/entertainment/local_story_016145516.html

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SURVIVOR: PANAMA – EXILE ISLAND. Tonight at 8, CBS.
So many tribes and challenges, winners and losers have come and gone since the first "Survivor" with Richard Hatch, that this CBS show has evolved into many games at once.

Not only is there the game to be the last person standing, but there are other perilous contests, and all of them have proven very interesting.

First, there are the games within the game played by the contestants. These include the increasingly sophisticated and fast-paced strategies and alliances: In tonight's second episode of "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" (at 8), every team, at this early stage, already has at least one alliance in place.

They also include the media-savvy jockeying for screen time: As the observant have noted, the spoils of post-"Survivor" celebrity go not necessarily to the winner, but to some of the squeakiest wheels.

This strategy can backfire even when it works, as the easy-to-hate Jonny Fairplay came to discover in his subsequent roller-coaster ride back to anonymity.

But Shane Powers, who tried to kick a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit the day he started "Survivor," is a train wreck who's impossible to ignore in these early episodes of "Panama."

On tonight's show, there may be no one he leaves un-irritated - but since I haven't seen the results of tonight's tribal council, I don't know whether he leaves, period. Other tribe members are targeted as well, for reasons both good and bad.

The other way the gamesmanship has grown more intense is in the way "Survivor" is designed and hosted. Executive producers Mark Burnett and Tom Shelly have built this year's show on quicksand, shaking up the footing at every opportunity. Sending one contestant at a time to spend solo time on a neighboring island is one such trick. Tonight, reshuffling teams again, with a schoolyard-pick approach and an accompanying surprise twist, is another.

And presiding over it all is Jeff Probst, whose skills as host and interviewer have gotten as sharp and flinty as the fire-starting tools he hands out.

During one challenge, Probst's play-by-play calls one team "absolutely inept." At the tribal council that ends tonight's episode, he says, "This tribe seems a little all over the map." He's observing and scolding at the same time, and it's well-deserved.

Last week, the woman who caught the biggest fish in the show's history, give or take a shark, was voted off immediately. Tonight, no matter what happens at the council, other erratic and absurdly stupid behavior is on view, including the launching of a spear gun without holding onto the gun part.

One tribe member's presence is described as "psychotic bad-idea detox" - not by Probst, but by the player himself. Welcome to "Panama - Exile Island," another "Survivor" winner. No matter who emerges with the money.
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/389592p-330565c.html

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