TV reality hit 'Survivor' to play race card

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Hit US reality show "Survivor" will divide contestants by race in its next round, in a daring move the show hopes will generate controversy and big audiences, the television network CBS said. For its 13th season, the show, the granddaddy of US reality TV, will divide 20 "castaways" into white, black, Asian and Hispanic "tribes" who will battle for supremacy on an isolated part of the Pacific Ocean's Cook Islands.

Where originally the show set teams evenly balanced by age, sex and ethnicity, the ethnic divide should spice up the competition, series host Jeff Probst said Wednesday, according to the CBS website. Probst dismissed suggestions that the show was going too far by focusing attention on the hyper-sensitive racial divide. "I found it to be one of...