Survivor 49
season of television series
Survivor 49 is the forty-ninth season of the American competitive reality television series Survivor. It premiered on September 24, 2025, on CBS in the United States. It was the seventeenth consecutive season to be filmed in the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji. The season ended on December 17, 2025, when Savannah Louie was voted the Sole Survivor, defeating Sophi Balerdi and Sage Ahrens-Nichols in a 5–2–1 vote. Louie became the fifth winner of Asian heritage, following Yul Kwon from Survivor: Cook Islands, Natalie Anderson from Survivor: San Juan del Sur, Erika Casupanan from Survivor 41, and Rachel LaMont from Survivor 47.
Production
On December 15, 2023, Manoa Kamikamica, the Fijian Minister of Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, announced that the Fijian Parliament had renewed its contract with Survivor for an additional two years. A preview trailer for the season was released on May 21, 2025, right after the finale of Survivor 48 aired. Like in the previous season, Survivor 49 and The Amazing Race 38 retain the 90-minute runtime; the premiere episode of Survivor 49 ran for two hours.
The American broadcast of the finale was interrupted by an address by President Donald Trump. The broadcast of the finale was not interrupted internationally, with the finale airing regularly in Canada, where the series airs on Global, and in Australia, where the finale aired on 9Go!
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