Week 9 : Survivor

Survivor is like a tough version of Big brother, the eliminated contestant are determined by the votes from other contestant, so do the winner of the season.

Contestants will be divided into 2~4 tribes, by gender, race, age or random. They need to live in their camp where is in the wild with nothing, won't contact with other tribe except in challenge. They need to make their own shelter, make fire, catch their food only by their own. A season will hold for about one mouth.
The tribe will change sometimes in the competition, contestents may switch their tribe and in the middie of a season the tribes will merge together.

Challenge
Contestents are fight for reward, tribe or individual immunity in challenges.

 

 

Tribal council
When there are still two or more tribes exist, only the team not win the immunity need to hold a tribal council to voted out one of their tribe member. When the tribes are merge, everyone need to attend the tribal council, only the person have individual immunity safe from eliminated.


Hidden immunity idol
The hidden immunity idol will hide near the camp or in the challenge, once you find it you need to keep it as a secret. Since it is so powerful, in tribal council before the host to reveal the votes you can use the hidden immunity idol to cancle any votes vote to you to protect yourself.

 

Week 8 : Big brother

This show's name comes from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. In  Big brother (U.S.) contestants are called houseguests, they will live in a house with many cameras and microphones to record their every move and every south for all the season (In season17  there are 17 houseguests and the day last for 98), viewers can use the live feeds to monitor everythings in the house. They are isolated from the outside world, they don't have T.V , Internet and cellphone.  They will compete in servial competitions in order to gain the power, every week one houseguest will be evicted. In the finale, the last 7 or 9 evicted houseguests will form the jury to decide the winner.

Head of Household Competition
This is the most important competition in big brother, the winner will be this week's Head of Household(HOH), HOH need to nominated two houseguests and will have the right to live in a special room with the monitor of the house.

Power of Veto Competition
Winner of Power of veto(POV) can choose whether to use veto to save one contestent on the block,  if veto is use the HOH need to renominated another contestent (winner of veto is safe).

Live eviction
Houstguest will vote who he/she want to be evicted more. The nominee who gets more votes will be evicted.

So, in one week the life in the house will go in a regular way:
HOH > nomination ceremony > POV > veto ceremony > live eviction > HOH .........

But the game is not such simple, there are many twist will make the game more interesting. You might think to win this game the ability to win competition is most important; however, the most crucial part is the social ability, you can't hold the power all the time but you can make yourself not be nominated all the season.

After all, that is very interesting to watch houseguest to compete in various competitions and form many alliance.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 7 : Top chef

Top chef

Top chef is a cooking competition for professional chefs, you may think that it sounds similar to Master chef which I introduced last week. Yes, they have a lot of things in common; however, both of them has its own characteristic.

Each episode of Top chef have two task:
Quick fire
In this competition chefs normally need to prepare one dish, the winner will win some prizes like the immunity.
Elimination challenge
It is a respectively harder task, chefs will have hours to prepare. What they have to represent are some delicate dishes.







What's the difference between Top chef and Master chef?
The most important one is the contestants, professional and amateur. These point will effect many things in the program. Master chef's task are easier, they typically only need to prepare one dish; while, in Top chef they need to prepare formal dish for dozens of people or snacks for hundreds of people by their own.
In Master chef you can watch contestents' growth, look their skills getting stronger. However, Master chef is said to be too entertainment, sometimes they will choose to save who can attract more viewers than who seem to do a better job. In this point, I think Top chef is more proper in judgement.

Spin-offs
Top chef master 
All contestents are award-winning chef, all have the capability to being a judge in Top chef, so the level is very high, and very interesting.

Top chef just desserts
Desserts version of top chef.

Week 6 : Master Chef

Master chef (U.S.)

This is an interesting cooking competition, contestants are all home cook. Every two episode they will undergo these four test (each episode have two task and in the end someone will be eliminated) 

Mystery Box Challenge : Contestents need to open a box of unknown ingredients, and they need to prepare one stunning dish only use ingredients within to please the judge. The winner of this round will have advantages like immunities or the power to assign everyone's task in the elimination test, which means that he/she can try to make his/her biggest enemy have the worst situation.
Elimination Test : This round will have a specific theme and the choice of ingredients is free from  the pantry.
Team Challenge : The winners of last episode's elimination test have the right to choose his/her teammates, in this challenge they need to prepare a lot of food for customers. Who win who lose are all decided by these customers, so the team has the most delicate dish may not win, the most important thing is to grab customers' love.  
Pressure Test : Only the losing team's members need to compete in this test(sometimes judges will immune some contestants who doing well in the team challenge), the person who did worst will be eliminated.

 

 

It also have another series Master chef junior (U.S.)