Sucked Into Reality TV

Well, goddamnit.

Animal Planet has managed to do what the major (and each of the minor) TV networks have failed to do. I am hooked on "Meerkat Manor".

The "reality TV" thing has been sweeping the nation for a decade (isn't that horrifying), and I have been holding myself smugly aloof from this phenomenon.

I was coerced into watching one episode of the first season of "Survivor", found it stilted and puerile, and never watched another episode.

Imagine my chagrin, now that I have been sucked into the lives of a group of meerkats in Africa. I simply have to know, "Is Shakespeare OK?"

They ended on a 'cliffhanger' of Shakespeare defending the smaller members of his tribe against a rival tribe. The babies are OK (and so adorable!), but Shakespeare is nowhere to be seen. I don't know if they have kicked dirt over him, so as not to traumatise the children (and this mid-30's working adult), or if he is fine, or what. I have been trolling the internet, and can't seem to find mention of him.

Sure, I can see that he survived the puff adder strike, but I already knew that. I cried. He is so little, and he got bit by this snake, and he dragged his sad, tiny self to the edge of the burrow, but didn't go inside. He laid out all night, a very dangerous proposition. Ugh, getting sniffy just thinking about it.

He just CAN'T die. He CAN'T!

Anyone know what happened to Shakespeare?