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Casting Complications

Lynne Spillman has done the casting for Survivor since it started in the us in 2000, and can recall the days when audition tapes arrived in a dismal trickle. 'In the beginning, I think we got 1,500 tapes. For Survivor 2, the show's success launched into over 70,000 tapes.' Spillman went from four people working for her to, on certain days, 40: 'We couldn't believe the truckloads of tapes FedEx brought to our offices. It looked like a commercial, where you opened the back and they all came pouring out.'
January 1, 2006

Lynne Spillman has done the casting for Survivor since it started in the us in 2000, and can recall the days when audition tapes arrived in a dismal trickle. 'In the beginning, I think we got 1,500 tapes. For Survivor 2, the show's success launched into over 70,000 tapes.' Spillman went from four people working for her to, on certain days, 40: 'We couldn't believe the truckloads of tapes FedEx brought to our offices. It looked like a commercial, where you opened the back and they all came pouring out.'

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