On The Air

The new reality show from Mark Burnett is Pirate Master. It’s Survivor on the high seas. It looks balls-out awesome, but we have to wait until the end of next month to find out. TV Guide has a first look:

The wannabe brigands dress in period costumes, eat such yummy authentic food as gruel – the officers get better rations – and are ruled over by an elected captain who assigns roles to the crew members and can be overthrown if he doesn’t treat his crew well. Mutiny, anyone? Each week at “Pirate’s Court” – which are, according to Burnett, modeled after actual tribunals – a player is cast off the ship and set adrift on a raft. “If you can’t run with the crew, if you can’t swim or row or navigate, you’re a liability.”

This is either going to be the next Survivor or the next Treasure Hunters. I’m betting on the former. Mark Burnett is a freaking genius.