THE SUMMIT Post-Mortem: Kevin Lee on the Brutal, Unexpected Elimination
October 9, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
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“Hard Choices Must Be Made” – After an unexpected twist reverberates throughout the group, game plans shift as they begin to tackle harder terrain. While the trekkers are challenged with crossing an extremely rickety bridge, emotions surge as the Mountain’s Keeper arrives with a shocking choice for the trekkers to make, leaving one person’s fate hanging by a thread, on THE SUMMIT, Wednesday, Oct. 9 (9:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Manu Bennett serves as host. Pictured: Therron Pittman. Photo: Sean Beale/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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THE SUMMIT: Kevin Lee Explains How the Show Cast Season 1
October 9, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
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“Hard Choices Must Be Made” – After an unexpected twist reverberates throughout the group, game plans shift as they begin to tackle harder terrain. While the trekkers are challenged with crossing an extremely rickety bridge, emotions surge as the Mountain’s Keeper arrives with a shocking choice for the trekkers to make, leaving one person’s fate hanging by a thread, on THE SUMMIT, Wednesday, Oct. 9 (9:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Manu Bennett serves as host. Pictured (L-R): Dennis Cho, Robert Culp, Therron Pittman, Amy Stephens, Becky Rawls, Jeannie Geyer, Punkin Jackson, Shweta Choudhury, and Geoff Green. Photo: Sean Beale/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
THE SUMMIT kicked off its series (on September 29) with a twist for its competitors: They were going to be climbing a mountain, having just 14 days to reach the peak.
Though the participants knew they’d be competing in a physical reality competition series, the scale of what they were undertaking was kept hidden. That decision also led to a complicated casting process for the team, as they tried to find the right contestants without tipping their hands about what was going on.
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