Programming note: Expresso on SABC3 has Survivor Xtra with TVSA and Tashi Tagg Tuesday mornings at 06:45, about the Monday's episode.

If you're watching Survivor Tocatins on SABC3 Mondays at 19:30 you will want to watch Survivor Xtra with TVSA and Tashi Tagg on Tuesday mornings at 06:45 on SABC3's breakfast show Expresso. Tomorrow morning will be the 3rd episode.

My dear frenemy Tashni Tashi Tagg who does excellent work covering television is also brilliant with Survivor coverage and came up with the idea of having an on-air panel discussion on TV with insider gossip the day after an episode. Survivor Xtra with TVSA is a companion insert to Survivor Tocatins with extra information, insights, secrets and gossip about the season and opinion, chatter, debate and critique by Thrashey Tashi Tagg, the Expresso presenter and guest viewers and fans of Survivor Tocatins.

Survivor Xtra with TVSA sees Tratchni Tashi Tagg discussing the Monday night episode with a panel of fans of the show. For years the CBS Early Show in America has given time to the previous night's episode of Survivor on the CBS network because so much more exists in terms of footage, interviews, voted out contestants and possible discussions. Finally South African Survivor fans can also have more insight, perspective and analysis thanks to Survivor Xtra with TVSA recapping and doing talking points on the just-seen episode.

I'm told guests who want to form part of the panel (and everyone I've watched so far early in the morning in my living room or in hotel rooms across South Africa the past few weeks have been great) can email survivorxtra@tvsa.co.za or expresso@expressoshow.com (you have to be in Cape Town).

BREAKING. Survivor Tocantins set to start on SABC3 on Monday 27 June as a new SABC3 reality shows contingency plan looms.

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Next time on ..., oh you know. Let me break the news that the 18th season of Survivor, Survivor Tocantins has been acquired by SABC3 and will follow after the current season of The Amazing Race and start on Monday 27 June.

Two tribes of 8 each will battle it out for 39 gruelling days in the Brazilian highlands over 14 episodes. Shockingly tribal council will be halted in Survivor Tocantins when someone gets evacuated due to medical reasons and the hidden immunity idol and Exile Island are both there.

Some more insider info, not specific about Survivor, but related to the primetime alternating process of showing seasons of Survivor and The Amazing Race as reality shows on SABC3. Once again the broadcaster is catching up with what it can afford (The Amazing Race first-run rights goes to Sony Entertainment channel on DStv) and Survivor needs to cool off too (i.e cost a bit less). So of course SABC3 will sooner or later have to call a temporary halt to these shows again.

I specifically asked and was told earlier in the week that SABC3 is very much aware of this specific eventually looming in the not too distant future and that it's not guaranteed that Survivor and The Amazing Race will keep alternating. SABC3 has ''another plan'' that's ''strategic'' for the timeslot to tie viewers over when the broadcaster has to call a temporary halt to one of either of these shows as has happened in 2009.