'Survivor: Worlds Apart' Crowns A Winner

SAN JUAN DEL SUR - APRIL 14: 'Livin' on the Edge' - Sierra Dawn Thomas, Mike Holloway and Carolyn Rivera during the ninth episode of SURVIVOR on the 30th season, Wednesday, April 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Image is a screen grab. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

Season 30 of "Survivor" was a nail-biter until the very end, but finally, the show has crowned a new winner.

Spoiler Alert! Don't continue reading unless you've seen the "Survivor: Worlds Apart" finale ...

Mike Holloway outwitted, outplayed and outlasted the rest of the competitors and took home the $1 million check, and the title of Sole Survivor, on Wednesday night. The 38-year-old from Texas was a challenge juggernaut throughout the season, and won all three of the challenges featured in the finale. Although he wasn't in the core alliance throughout the final few weeks of the competition, Holloway won over the jury after an intense round of questioning.

Carolyn Rivera and Will Sims II were the runners-up with one jury vote each. Rodney Lavoie Jr. lost his chance at the million bucks after Holloway forced a tie between him and "Mama C" in tribal council (They had to face-off in a fire-building challenge). "Mama C" won after an hour-long battle.

During the reunion show, Jeff Probst shared the cast of Season 31, "Survivor: Second Chance," which features contestants selected by a public vote from a producer-picked pool of former players, all of whom have only played once before and not won. Contestants include Season 1's Kelly Wiglesworth, as well as Ciera Eastin, Vytas Baskauskas, “Woo” Hwang, Stephen Fishbach, Terry Deitz, Kass McQuillen and Season 30's Shirin Oskooi and Joe Anglim.

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'LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER'

DH Lawrence's book, banned until 1963, gets a big-budget reworking from the BBC as part of its 20th-century literature season. L'homme du jour James Norton is a war-wounded Sir Clifford Chatterley, unable to satisfy his luscious Lady, played by Holliday Grainger. Where does she turn instead? Step forward Mellors, played here by 'Game of Thrones' star Richard Madden. Script by 'Line of Duty' scribe Jed Mercurio.

'WOLF HALL'

Based on the prizewinning novels by Hilary Mantel, this six-parter has had a reported £6million spent on it, no doubt most of the budget on costume and cast - including Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Mark Gatiss, etc etc. The books' devoted fans will be watching every frame of Thomas Cromwell's rise and fall at the court of Henry VIII. The BBC will not want to disappoint. Starts 21 January 9pm on BBC Two.

'DEATH IN PARADISE'

Back to the lapping shores and palm-fringed breezes of Saint-Marie for the fourth series of this 'Midsomer-On-Sea' ratings winner. Now Humphrey Goodman has realised his feelings for a colleague are more than professional, chaos will surely ensure. Meanwhile, there's a murder - during a seance - to be solved.

'HOUSE OF CARDS/MADAM SECRETARY'

Those with an unsatiable urge for some political drama will find their cup running over in the New Year. As well as the third series of 'House of Cards' dropping onto Netflix in February, there's 'Madam Secretary, starring Tea Leoni as a former CIA analyst promoted to the US Secretary of State, with Keith Carradine her boss in the Oval Office. Exec produced by Morgan Freeman, this series is going down well in the US, will appear on Sky Living from early in the New Year.

'CRISIS'

Haven't had enough of Gillian Anderson after the creepy finale of The Fall? Fear not, she's back in action in 'Crisis' on Watch Channel, where she plays a Washington CEO, whose daughter is kidnapped along with the President's. 'Crisis' has been cancelled in the US, which means, on the bright side, we'll get the cracking finale we were denied in 'Homeland Series 1'. Starts on Friday at 9pm.

'BETTER CALL SAUL'

This is the highly-anticipated spin off from the phenomenon that was 'Breaking Bad'. Bob Odenkirk plays Saul Goodman in this prequel to his antics with Walter White, although those later events will also get plenty of reference. Coming to Netflix shortly after its February premiere on AMC in the US.

'THE GOOD WIFE'

One of those rare shows that gets better as time goes on, 'The Good Wife' enters its sixth season with its lead actress Julianna Margulies polishing her latest Emmy, and her character Alicia debating whether to run for State Attorney. To be aired sometime this January on More4.

'GRACEPOINT'

Seeing as it worked so well with 'The Killing' and 'The Office', US studio execs did the same with 'Broadchurch', turning it into 'Gracepoint' and promising a different ending. Which we'll be able to see for ourselves when it boomerangs back across the pond to ITV sometime in January. It didn't have anything like the same cachet as the homegrown version, but worth watching if just for David Tennant's American accent.

'CUCUMBER'

A drama about gay men being, well, gay... suddenly becomes interesting with news that it's from Russell T Davies, the provocative, witty, creative force who brought us 'Queer as Folk' and the whole universe of 'Doctor Who' and 'Torchwood'. He wanted to write something real, and he has.

'BROADCHURCH'

Two (real-life) years after the mystery of Danny Latimer's murder was solved, we're back in the community still devastated by his death - including detectives Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), who must rally because there's another crime to solve. Writer Chris Chibnall has installed the same rules of non-disclosure as for the first time around, but can the return to the coastside town possibly have the same impact on a nation of gripped viewers?