On August 23, 2000, CBS made television history when nearly 52 million people tuned in to the final episode of the smash hit Survivor: Pulau Tiga and watched Rich walk away with 1 million. Amid viewer fascination and near obsession, it became the most successful television series ever and the most publicized television event in history: On the day of the final episode, it generated 540 news stories. And with the debut of Survivor: The Australian Outback immediately after the Super Bowl on January 28, 2001, the frenzy shows no signs of subsiding. More than 55 million people were predicted to tune into the premiere, and advertising prices for the new show tripled in cost. Every page of the Survivor 2002 Calendar features color images of the castaways, activities, artifacts, or geography from either the Pulau Tiga or the Australian Outback series. The images are accompanied by behind-the-scenes tidbits, quotes, little known facts, and humorous statistics from the shows. For example, did you know that the Pagong Tibe got fire when Gretchen used BB"s thick prescription lenses as a magnifying glass to start a flame? Or the unbeknownst to Kelly, the Survivor Bar that she went to for winning the Mud Pack reward challenge wasn"t really a bar, but the production crew"s war room? Or that a broad stretch of the sandy beach on Pulau Tiga island once housed a Japanese refueling dock during World War II? No fan can "survive" without this calendar.