Expedition Robinson

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Expedition Robinson is a popular Swedish reality television program debuting in 1997. It was the first production worldwide of a format developed in the UK that has since then been produced in many countries under the name Survivor. The show is one of the biggest and most controversial successes in Scandinavia: the final episode of season four was viewed by 4,045,000 people out of a total population of 8.8 million in Sweden.

The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.

The series returned in 2009, now on TV4 with the world's first female hostess, Linda Isacsson.

Controversry

The first series of the programme was subject to some controversy: the first contestant voted off the show, Sinisa Savija, killed himself shortly afterwards and his family reportedly blamed it on the rejection he felt being the first to leave the group. This case adventured the future of the show, but the national director decided to go against the media and continuing to work alongside the producers.

Format

The Robinson format was developed by Planet 24, a United Kingdom TV production company owned by Charlie Parsons and Bob Geldof. Their company Castaway Television Productions retained the rights to the concept when they sold Planet 24 in 1999. Mark Burnett later licensed the format to create the U.S. show Survivor in 2000.

Sixteen contestants are put into a survival situation and compete in a variety of physical challenges. Early in each season two teams compete but later on the teams are merged and the competitions become individual. At the end of each show one contestant is eliminated from the show by the others in a secret "island council" ballot.

Seasons

Further reading

(Swedish) Svensson, Niklas; Melin, Martin (2004). Robinsonboken - sanningen om Expedition. Bazar förlag AB. ISBN 91-7028-017-7. 

External links

• Official Strix site
• Salon article
• BBC article