I've not seen
Survivor, being in Britain. I don't even know a great deal about it, only
bits and pieces that I've gleaned from TV and on the net. However a
pertinent point has occurred to me.
This guy Richard Hatch who won the show is generally believed to have succeeded due to being generally scheming and manipulative of the other contestants. By successfully applying this tactic he's now $1,000,000 richer.
In the UK version of the Big Brother gameshow, there has been an enormous scandal where one of the contestants was found to be scheming and manipulative of the other contestants; so big a scandal that he got summarily evicted from the Big Brother house without even the courtesy of being voted out. The tabloid papers have dubbed him nasty Nick and he allegedly needs 24-hour security to prevent lynch mobs attacking him.
I'm not a sociologist or psychologist nor any other kind of ologist, but I'm sure there are all sorts of conclusions to be drawn from the fact that in the US a manipulating schemer wins a gameshow, whereas in the UK the same personality type gets accused of cheating and becomes public enemy number one.