Arrrr! The "Real" Pirate's Booty

Finally, a reality show for people who think they are pirates! What took so long?...

CBS has finally released the details of its new Mark Burnett reality series, Pirate Masters. The new show will premiere on May 31 and here are the details:

“This is high stakes, high seas, high adventure and the life of a pirate,” Burnett recently told TV Guide. “It’s a huge — and hard — adventure, with jumping off waterfalls, swimming up canyon lakes and crossing mud-filled jungles.”

Pirate Master, first announced last November and reportedly filmed last month, will follow “16 people who all agree that had they been born 250 years ago, they would have liked to be pirates,” according to Burnett, as they travel around the Caribbean island nation of Dominica in search of hidden treasure that will total $1 million. However because only a foolish pirate would bury all their treasure in one spot, different amounts of booty will be found at different locations.

“Of course there is a search for a buried treasure. It maybe at the jungle river, at the mountaintop jungle, or it could be by the ocean,” Burnett explained in a preview video released by CBS. “Every week there’s treasure, and it’s worth a lot of money. Most reality competitions finalize with somebody getting half-a-million or $1 million. In this case, it’s spread each week! In the first week alone, they’re competing for $40,000 U.S.-dollars worth of Spanish doubloons.”

The series will begin with the 16 contestants dressed in period costumes to look like pirates and traveling in the black of night via longboats to a 179-foot, square-rigged barque that carries 12,500 square feet of sail, which will serve as their home for the 33-day duration of their high seas adventure.

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