"Survivor:Islamic Law" is going to be the next craze in reality tv, according to pundits and network executives. Created by television genius Mark Burnett, the show will closely follow the Survivor format but will have only female contestants and will pit them against each other under the harsh Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia. Set to air next spring and to be filmed this fall outside Mecca, the show will feature sixteen American women competing for a million dollars and voting each other off week by week. "That is, unless they don't get stoned to death first," laughed Burnett, appearing on CBS's Early Show yesterday. The women will not be provided with anything, and that includes veils and robes. "They'll have the usual Survivor logo bandannas, and bikinis, of course, but that's about it. So the minute a Saudi official sees one of them, she'll be killed," said Burnett.

Luxury and reward challenges for the women on "Survivor: Islamic Law" will include stealing bread from a local baker without getting your hand chopped off, looking in the general direction of a man without getting flagellated in the public square, trying to get behind the wheel of a car without being bayonetted and saying nice things about Jews out loud within earshot of a Saudi police officer without getting shot on sight. Jenna Lewis and Colleen Haskell from the first Survivor conceded that "Survivor: Islamic Law" sounds much tougher than the time they spent getting a tan and eating rice and bananas on the island of Pulau Tiga in the South China Sea. But former sorority girl Kelly Goldsmith, one of the contestants from "Survivor: Africa," insists that she and her fellow competitors had it much worse. "Like, there was like, that one time, for example, when the US Air Force mistook where we lived for an Al Qaeda training camp. That was like, totally narly."