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...year's Neil Armstrong numbers - and estimated water-cooler chatter on Friday morning was off 30 percent - but "Survivor 2: The Sequel" still beat NBC's stunt-studded "Friends" handily on a weekly basis and still gets more people talking than any network show out there. ("Back From the Outback," a where-are-they-now cleanup show charged with sopping up the last of CBS' May-sweeps spoils next week, may finally yield to the aging Peacock gang.) Here's management's leverage in the Hollywood strike talks: For the second year in a row, actor- and writer-free Reality...
...Colby and Tina spend their full day after waving goodbye to Keith (and gloating not a little)? Jabbering on about "the land," and reminiscing about all their crazy adventures here in the Outback. Hiking a lot. Cue the James Horner flutes. Cue the sunset. Cue the bright morning, the day before the month before one of them was eventually going to win, in a studio in Los Angeles with a live audience...
...that was the end of the end of "Survivor II: The Outback," the Outback part of which was, as Colby said in his best Cosell imitation, "the 17th player." The sequel to the Richard Hatch Show was a lean, mean, elementally compelling show - wrapped in a coating of ridiculous fluff, and trying...
...here? At 8:54 p.m. ET, (or, weeks ago in the Outback - still with us?) Colby cast his vote to cast out Keith. It was a puzzling ballot, on the face of it - Colby had, once again won immunity, and the smart play seemingly would be to get rid of the stronger player (Tina) for the final round. But then, remember this: "No matter what happens," Colby said to Tina at one point, "Keith Famie doesn't win a million bucks...
...sure does load their thoroughbred down. So many Bud Lights. So many Aztecs. So many commercials, and so many empty montages. Tune in next week for "Back From the Outback," to mop up what CBS can of May sweeps...