'Survivor' 2015 Cast: Jeff Probst Reveals Reasoning Behind No Returnees For Season 30, 'Let's Just Do A Great Season' [VIDEO]
Despite season 30 being a landmark number for CBS's Survivor, host Jeff Probst recently revealed why they chose not to go with an "all stars" season.
Survivor 30, which is subtitled Survivor: Worlds Apart, is slated to feature 18 new players split up by white collar, blue collar and "no collar" socioeconomic status. Despite going all out with Survivor 20, a.k.a. Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, they are not doing the same with this spring season.
Probst recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about why he and the producers chose to go with all newbies again. As it turns out, it's mostly because of producer Mark Burnett.
"Leading up to 30, we spent almost a year talking about whether we should do some sort of all-star season with returning players," Probst revealed. "And that seemed to be the conventional wisdom. A lot of people were expecting us to do that. But Mark and I were talking on the phone one day and Mark said something so simple.
"Mark said, 'Just keep in mind, Jeff -- it is our 30th season, but it is also just our 30th season.' And that really struck me, and from that moment on I realized, yeah, this is not the end of Survivor. It just happens to be a big number. Let's just do a great season."
This is the third all-newbie season in a row, a distinction that last occurred with season 17-19, a.k.a. Gabon-Tocantins-Samoa. It remains to be seen if Survivor will be continuing this newbie streak or if another all stars season is being planned.
Survivor: Worlds Apart is slated to premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Watch the promo for Survivor: Worlds Apart below:
