Survivor considered filming in Georgia and Hawaii amid the pandemic

Entertainment Weekly

"It was March 2020 when we made the official decision to postpone shooting Survivor 41 in Fiji," Probts tells EW. "We immediately turned our full attention to finding another location and even considered shooting domestically in Georgia or Hawaii." Last year, Survivor kept trying to secure spots in the United States without success because of the surging pandemic. "It was a daily battle of whack-a-mole," says Probst, "as every time we thought we had a potential spot, COVID would surge and we would be back to square one...After trying to shoot in the summer and then again in the fall of 2020, we finally made the decision to wait it out and resume production in March of 2021 back in Fiji."