Survivor: Borneo is the first season of the American
CBS competitive
reality television series
Survivor. It was originally broadcast under the name
Survivor but its official title was changed to
Survivor: Pulau Tiga to distinguish it from subsequent installments of the series, and then changed again to
Survivor: Borneo to avoid confusion with . The show filmed from March 13, 2000 through April 20, 2000 and premiered on May 31, 2000. Hosted by
Jeff Probst, it consisted of 39 days of gameplay with 16 competitors. It was set in the
South China Sea on the remote
Malaysian island of
Pulau Tiga in the state of
Sabah, about off the north coast of
Borneo, Malaysia.