Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown

Matt Roush says...

The survivalist series that lets it all hang out takes on an international Survivor feel in a spinoff competition, pitting 14 contestants in seven teams representing four countries. Four teams are from the U.S., one representing Texas and the others covering the East, South, and West. In the unforgiving terrain of South Africa’s Zululand, they’ll take on teams from Australia, Brazil, and Mexico, all vying for a $200,000 grand prize and national bragging rights. (Somehow, we expect this version of a World Cup will look a little different.) In another twist, the teams earn points in a new scoring system by tackling survival tasks and competing in challenges, with the winners safe from elimination and reaping rewards including food, water, and shelter. The bottom two teams go head-to-head in an elimination challenge, at which point they can return to civilization.

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