‘Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers’ Season 35 Episode 1 Betting Odds

–This is the 35th season for CBS’s reality show.

–’Survivor’ was one of the early pioneers of the reality TV genre.

–’Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers’ Episode 1 airs on Wednesday, September 27 at 8:00 PM Eastern.

The month of September will be a big one for fans of reality television as three of the most popular shows in the genre will premiere new seasons. On September 18, ‘Dancing with the Stars’ returns for its 25th season. On September 25 it will be ‘The Voice’ beginning it’s 13th season and on September 27 it’s the show that started the genre aka ‘Survivor’ entering it’s 35th season. They’re back in the Fiji Islands and as has been the case in recent years they’ve got a ‘theme’–the proper name of Season 35 is ‘Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers’ and the three tribes are divided accordingly. As for the rationale behind these teams and their nomenclature we’ll defer to ‘Survivor’ impresario Jeff Probst who was recently interviewed by ‘The Hollywood Reporter’:

Whenever possible, we go into casting with an open slate. I can’t emphasize [enough] how risky that is and how scary that is. The calendar is clicking every day. Every day, you’re getting closer to shooting. You need to know your theme, because you want to know, “What stories are we going to tell?” But we don’t like to go looking for people. We just like to find the best group. About halfway through, we had a football hero, a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a bellhop and a fisher. I just kept looking at the cards and trying to figure out what it was, and “healer” was the word that really broke it. You could see “heroes,” and you could see “hustlers.” Finding the “h” word, that came later. “Healers” was the one that broke it. We pitched it to CBS, but they wanted the name to ring. You go, “Oh, god. OK. I get it.” Once we finally went, “Heroes and Healers and Hustlers,” then we had it.

The only hiccup that I think anyone had is there’s another connotation to “Hustlers,” which is that you’re a con man. My pitch to CBS was, “People might think that until we explain that that’s not the case. This guy is an entrepreneur, this guy is a bellhop, she’s a third-generation fisher person, she’s a personal assistant. These are people who hustle. They get it done.” In a sense, as I said today, they’re actually the closest to the personification of what a Survivor player has to do. You have to hustle. If you don’t get it done, you don’t eat. I’m really curious to see heroes, who are used to being put on a pedestal because you served our country or because you’re an athlete or because you broke the glass ceiling as a woman in business, and healers who put everybody first, and hustlers who say they don’t know how to get it done but they show up at 8 and they get it done … I’m really curious to watch those three groups play.

Thankfully, the tribes won’t be called ‘Heroes’, ‘Hustlers’ and ‘Healers’–they’ll have properly Survivor-esque team names broken down accordingly: Levu Tribe (Heroes), Yawa Tribe (Hustlers) and Soko Tribe (Healers). Other than these arbitrary designations the cast looks like a typical ‘Survivor’ group–they’re primarily in their late 20’s and 30’s though the actual age range goes from a low of 23 to a high of 46. There’s the usual assortment of buff athletic dudes and chicks you’d like to see naked complete with multi-ethnic inclusions to break up what would overwise be overbearing whiteness. There’s a couple of geeky guys and a couple of housewife looking women. And, of course, there’s a ‘Cowboy Hat Guy’. I don’t think it’s required for every reality show to have a ‘Cowboy Hat Guy’ but it sure seems like it. Since the infamous Richard Hatch aka ‘The Naked Guy’ won the first season of ‘Survivor’ there have been a total of 34 winners with 20 men and 14 women claiming the prize though the last six seasons have seen gender parity with a 3-3 tie in the ‘battle of the sexes’.

Here’s the official SPORTS BETTING EXPERTS odds for Episode 1 of ‘Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers’. As you’d expect, it’s tough to set numbers based on little more than CBS press releases and promo photos. In other words, you can expect some major changes in the prices as the first two or three episodes air:

‘SURVIVOR: HEROES V. HEALERS V. HUSTLERS’ SEASON 35 BETTING ODDS

TO WIN ‘SURVIVOR: HEROES V. HEALERS V. HUSTLERS’

Cole Medders: +350
Ryan Ulrich: +700
Ben Driebergen: +700
John Hilsabeck: +700
Jessica Johnston: +700
Chrissy Hofbeck: +1200
Roark Luskin: +1200
Ali Elliott: +1750
Ashley Nolan: +1750
Alan Ball: +2500
Simone Nguyen: +2500
Lauren Rimmer: +2500
Katrina Radke: +2500
Joe Mena: +2500
Mike Zahalsky: +2500
Patrick Bolton: +2500
Desiree Williams: +2500
Devon Pinto: +2500

GENDER OF ‘SURVIVOR: HEROES V. HEALERS V. HUSTLERS’ WINNER

Male: -250
Female: +210

AGE OF ‘SURVIVOR: HEROES V. HEALERS V. HUSTLERS’ WINNER

Over 30.5: +130
Under 30.5: -150

‘SURVIVOR: HEROES V. HEALERS V. HUSTLERS’ EPISODE 1 BETTING ODDS

WHO WILL BE ELIMINATED IN EPISODE 1?

Katrina Radke: +500
Patrick Bolton: +750
Desiree Williams: +750
Lauren Rimmer: +750
Mike Zahalsky: +750
Roark Luskin: +1250
Ali Elliott: +1250
No One Eliminated in Episode 1: +1250
Alan Ball: +1750
Ryan Ulrich: +1750
Simone Nguyen: +2500
Joe Mena: +2500
Ben Driebergen: +2500
Devon Pinto: +5000
John Hilsabeck: +5000
Jessica Johnston: +5000
Chrissy Hofbeck: +5000
Ashley Nolan: +5000
Cole Medders: +5000

WHO WILL WIN REWARD IN EPISODE 1?

Levu Tribe (Heroes): -215
No Reward Winner: +350
Yawa Tribe (Hustlers): +350
Soko Tribe (Healers): +350

WHO WILL WIN IMMUNITY IN EPISODE 1?

Levu Tribe (Heroes): -165
Yawa Tribe (Hustlers): +200
Soko Tribe (Healers): +450
No Immunity Winner: +750

WILL A HIDDEN IDOL BE PLAYED IN EPISODE 1?

Yes: +300
No: -350

WILL ANYONE QUIT/BE REMOVED FROM ISLAND DUE TO INJURY IN EPISODE 1?

Yes: +1250
No: -2500

WILL A CONTESTANT BE ‘PIXELATED’ DUE TO NUDITY IN EPISODE 1?

Yes: +210
No: -250

GENDER IDENTITY OF NEXT CONTESTANT TO BE ‘PIXELATED’ DUE TO NUDITY DURING SEASON 35?

Female: -500
Male: +250

In the previous two propositions pixelation must be due to accidental or intentional nudity and not due to obscene gestures or any other reason.

EPISODE 1 KEY DEMO (18-49) RATINGS

Over 1.75: -150
Under 1.75: +130

EPISODE 1 KEY DEMO (18-49) SHARE

Over 6.5: -150
Under 6.5: +130

EPISODE 1 TOTAL VIEWERS

Over 8 million: -130
Under 8 million: +110

EPISODE 1 NIELSEN RANKING (9/25/17 through 10/1/17)

Over 9.5: -150
Under 9.5: +130

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