Survivor: Worlds Apart

Survivor: Worlds Apart is the 30th season of Survivor.

Development
Filming commenced weeks after, while information about this season was revealed at the end of that season's live Reunion Show.

Originally, the season was planned to feature Returning Players to mark the show's 15th anniversary and 30th installment, but Executive Producer Mark Burnett decided to have new contestants instead. Jeff Probst said: "none"

- Leading up to 30, we spent almost a year talking about whether we should do some sort of all-star season with returning players, and that seemed to be the conventional wisdom. A lot of people were expecting us to do that. But Mark and I were talking on the phone one day and Mark said something so simple. Mark said, Just keep in mind, Jeff—it is our 30th season, but it is also just our 30th season. And that really struck me, and from that moment on I realized, yeah, this is not the end of Survivor. It just happens to be a big number. Let’s just do a great season.

Probst also deduced why San Juan del Sur failed to be on par with the past four seasons. He stated that they decided on the theme (the "Blood versus Water" concept) before casting. In an attempt to remedy last season's lackluster performance, the host said they went into casting before they decided how they were going to divide them into tribes.

The idea of "White Collar versus Blue Collar" was considered but the producers found the concept flat on its own. But with the success of 's "Brains versus Brawn vs Beauty", they settled on having a third tribe, thus "No Collar" being conceived. Probst claimed that the "No Collar" archetype was his idea.

Twists/Changes

 * Tribe division: The 18 castaways are divided according to their professions and approaches to life:
 * The Masaya ("White Collar") tribe are made up of castaways who work in the corporate world with a degree of authority. They "make the rules."
 * The Escameca ("Blue Collar") tribe are made up of castaways who work on manual labor. They "follow the rules."
 * The Nagarote ("No Collar") tribe are made up of castaways who are free spirits with passion-based occupations. They "break the rules."
 * Tribe Leaders: At the beginning of the season, two people from each tribe would be chosen as "leaders" and would have do decide together between either receiving a large bag of beans or receiving a smaller bag of beans and a clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol.
 * Double Vote: A castaway would get the right to vote twice at the same Tribal Council. The intention of using the double vote should be voiced immediately after all the votes are cast and it is valid until the final five. It is at the voter's discretion whether he would throw this vote away, vote the same person twice, or vote another potential threat.

Trivia

 * This is the fourth season to have a three-tribe format, following, , and.
 * This is the second time (following ) the three tribes were not divided randomly.
 * It is also the second season (again following Cagayan) to feature three starting tribes with an entirely new cast.
 * This is the first season to have three starting tribes in which one tribe does not lose the first two Immunity Challenges.
 * This is the first three-tribe season to have all three starting tribes vote out at least one member prior to the tribe dissolve.
 * This is the first time in the U.S. version to have a castaway be able to vote twice in a single voting.