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Mike Bloom
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Writer: Parade Magazine & various outlets. Podcaster: Rob Has a Podcast, Post Show Recaps & anyone willing to listen to a Muppet talk TV & film. He/him/his
#TheTraitorsUS Season 4 episode release schedule, per Peacock:

January 8: Episodes 1, 2, 3
January 15: Episodes 4, 5
January 22: Episodes 6
January 29: Episode 7
February 5: Episode 8
February 12: Episode 9
February 19: Episode 10
February 26: Finale + Reunion
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November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Still surreal to see @robcesternino.bsky.social, one of the biggest game-changers in the world of reality TV (both in terms of strategy and media), getting the chance to return to our screens after two decades, two children, and 2 million podcasts

January 8 cannot come soon enough! #TheTraitorsUS
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Let the countdown officially begin… 👀
The Traitors US season 4 premieres Jan. 8 on Peacock. #TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUS
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Because I've seen some talk about it, CBS confirms via press release that this week's #Survivor49 is NOT a double Tribal Council

Instead, it talks about "group immunity is on the line." Most likely just split with one team winning and not voting, like we saw with the Matt Blankinship & Tiyana boots
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#TAR38 I got to speak with Natalie and Stephanie Negrotti about the "Yin Yang Sissies" not-so-zen elimination, and how they actually pitched Kyland and Taylor to give them the Express Pass at the starting line (and nearly got it): parade.com/tv/the-amazi...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#Survivor49 I had an absolutely "fire" conversation with Nate! He gets into whether he clocked Sage and Jawan flipping, why the generation gap never gave him a partner in the game, and why he feels remorse for never revealing his MCU experience: parade.com/tv/nate-moor...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
After Dee Valladares's marathon year of reality TV, I talk to her about running the New York City Marathon, whether she'd do #TheChallenge again, and what show she's already eyeing doing next after #Survivor 50: parade.com/tv/dee-valla...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#TAR38 Rubina and Kristine spoke with me about why they were "salty" about Tucker and Eric not using the U-Turn on another team, and how Joseph and Adam are still apologizing to this day about U-Turning them:

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October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Shannon responds to accusations of being "performative" on #Survivor49, saying she's "misunderstood" by her cast and fans. She also gives her reaction to Sage denying her a hug, and whether her Boston Rob/AI Jesus preseason prep helped:

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October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Between 20-person casts and short premerges in recent years, #Survivor49 marks the smallest number of people in a merge since...Kaoh Rong

Almost a decade ago.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We've seen Survivor players decline hugging the people who voted them out

#Survivor49 might mark the first time someone declined hugging the person THEY voted out
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I missed the two tribes. I missed the standalone Reward Challenges.

But I missed you most of all, Jeff Probst challenge innuendos #Survivor49
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Ok I know Shannon is driving Sage up a wall, but their dynamic is absolutely hysterical #Survivor49
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The two things we know about Sophie Segreti 8 hours into #Survivor49:
1. She hates fruit
2. She hates Kristina
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
#Survivor49

Jawan: “I’m a Marvel nerd”
Steven: “I’m super into Marvel”
Nate:
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Rewatching the Final 6 vote of #Survivor Game Changers like
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
In 25 years, #Survivor49 marks the first time that a season has swapped from 3 tribes to 2 tribes BACK to 3 tribes
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
After finding out about #Survivor49 Shannon's connection to Boston Rob in the preseason, I got him on the record talking about his relationship with her, and what advice he gave over the years before she went out to play:

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Boston Rob Mariano Shares His Surprising Connection to a ‘Survivor 49’ Contestant — And the Advice He Gave Her (Exclusive)
'I remember them being born,' the 'Survivor' legend says of one of the current players in the hunt for the million dollars.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
On this week's "On Fire" podcast, Jeremy Collins says that, in his opinion, Parvati is not a two-time winner from her time on #SurvivorAU, replying, "I say she has one and a half wins"

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October 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
After last night's emotional #TAR38 exit, I spoke with Hannah and Simone Chaddha about who they would have U-Turned if they got the chance, and Kyland and Taylor's "dumb decision" with the Express Pass: parade.com/tv/the-amazi...
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
After seeing him make his way to the #DWTS ballroom to support Dylan Efron, I spoke with @BostonRob about whether he would want to compete for the Mirror Ball himself, and which pros he would want to make his Final 2:
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October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Jason reveals that his alliance with fellow alternate MC was his tightest on the island, and that she actually showed him the idol she secretly found

Full #Survivor49 interview: parade.com/tv/jason-tre...
October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#Survivor49's Jason Treul talks through how he found out he'd go from alternate to cast member and why his alliance with fellow alternate MC was his tightest in the game (to the point where she showed him her idol): parade.com/tv/jason-tre...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Izzy and Paige have to have the most entertaining reaction I’ve seen to being U-Turned in quite some time #TAR38
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM