SURVIVOR SEQUEL SCOOP

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback, the much-anticipated follow-up to Survivor 1: CBS's Summer Cash Cow, will debut immediately following next year's Super Bowl XXXV, network president/CEO, Leslie Moonves, confirmed to reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, CA. Four weeks into the contestant search, some 6,200 fame-seekers already have sent in applications (it took producers 13 weeks to gather that many the first time around). Also on the Survivor front, CBS plans to air an hour-long "town hall meeting" featuring all 16 contestants right after the Aug. 23 two-hour finale. In other press tour news, CBS announced that Roseanne's Sara Gilbert is joining CBS's fall sitcom Welcome to New York as star Christine Baranski's new assistant.

TV GuideNews July 24, 2000 at 1:00 a.m. PT