When Entertainment Weekly spoke to the contestants in Fiji in the days before filming began, several of them referenced the last Survivor season they had seen before leaving, and that was Survivor 46,

Jeff Probst is returning as the face of "Survivor" after 24 years and almost 700 episodes of the groundbreaking television reality competition series, which is preparing to launch its 48th season. "I remember how excited I was,

Survivor’ host and executive producer Jeff Probst tells TVLine that Season 48 “comes out hot” with a lot of interesting duos and will “go down as one of our best seasons.”