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Expedition: Robinson was a popular Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 reality television
Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
 program, that debuted in 1997. It was the first production worldwide of a format that was developed in the UK, a format that has since then also been produced in many other countries, most notable under the title Survivor
Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes....
. The Swedish show was shown for nine seasons. It is one of the biggest and most controversial TV successes in Scandinavia.






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Expedition: Robinson was a popular Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 reality television
Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors....
 program, that debuted in 1997. It was the first production worldwide of a format that was developed in the UK, a format that has since then also been produced in many other countries, most notable under the title Survivor
Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes....
. The Swedish show was shown for nine seasons. It is one of the biggest and most controversial TV successes in Scandinavia. The final episode of the fourth season was viewed by 4,045,000 people (Swedish population at that time was 8.8 million) in Sweden which makes it one of the most viewed programs in modern Swedish TV history.

The name of the show alludes to Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
 and The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Switzerland family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia....
, two novels that featured people marooned by shipwrecks.

The first series of the programme was subject to some controversy, and contributed to a moral panic in Sweden. The first contestant voted off the show killed himself shortly afterwards, with his family reportedly blaming the rejection he felt after being the first one to leave the group. But continued on to be one of Sweden's most watched shows ever on TV.

The Swedish series will return in 2009 now on TV4
TV4

TV4 may refer to:*TV4 **TV4 AB, owners of the Sweden television station*TV4 , the former name for C4, the New Zealand television station*TV4 ...
 with female host Linda Isacsson
Linda Isacsson

Linda Susanna Isacsson is a former Miss Sweden and a TV personality, hostess, reporter and weather forecaster. She represented her country at Miss Universe 1990....
.

Format

Its format was developed by Planet 24
Planet 24

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, a United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 TV production company owned by Charlie Parsons
Charlie Parsons

----Charlie Parsons, born 7 August 1958 is a United Kingdom television producer who created a number of notable television shows including Survivor ....
 and Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE, known as Bob Geldof , is an Republic of Ireland singer, songwriter, actor and political activist who became famous as a member of the Rock music The Boomtown Rats....
. Their company Castaway Television Productions retained the rights to the concept when they sold Planet 24 in 1999. (Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett is a United Kingdom television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the United States....
 later licensed the format to create the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 show Survivor
Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes....
 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 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

Year Anchorman Producer Channel Place #Participants Winner
1997 Harald Treutiger
Harald Treutiger

Harald Treutiger is a Sweden television host who hosted Eurovision Song Contest 1992 in Sweden after Carola H?ggkvist winning in 1991. Harald is currently employed at TV4 Plus....
 Anders Eriksson SVT
Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners. The Swedish public broadcasting system is in several respects modeled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the British Broad...
 Pulau Tengah
Pulau Tengah

Tengah Island is an uninhabited island. It lies nine nautical miles off the coast of Mersing on the South China Sea off the east coast of Johor, Malaysia....
, Johor
Johor

Johor is a state of Malaysia between 1?20"N and 2?35"N. It is one of the most developed states in Malaysia. The capital city and royal seat of Johor is Johor Bahru, formerly Tanjung Puteri ....
, Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
 16 Martin Melin
1998 Harald Treutiger Mikael Hylin SVT Mataking Pompom, Malaysia 15 Alexandra Zazzi
1999 Anders Lundin
Anders Lundin

Anders Lundin is a Sweden television Presenter. Anders was one of the first hosts in the world to host the show Expedition Robinson, also known as Survivor ....
 Mattias Olsson SVT Cadlao Island, El Nido, Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 17 Jerker Dalman
2000 Anders Lundin Hasse Aro SVT Mensirip, Malaysia 16 Mattias Dalerstedt
2001 Anders Lundin Hasse Aro / Kajsa Glansén SVT Pulau Besar, Malaysia 17 Jan Emanuel Johansson
2002 Anders Lundin Joakim Jankert SVT Pulau Besar, Malaysia 17 Antoni Matacz
2003 Anders Lundin Anki Lindberg SVT Pulau Tengah, Johor, Malaysia
Pulau Besar, Malaysia		 25 Emma Andersson
2004 Robert Aschberg
Robert Aschberg

Robert Aschberg is a Sweden journalist and TV-personality on TV3 and one of Sweden's most popular hosts. Robert is the grandson of Olof Aschberg....
 Hasse Aro / Claes Leinstedt TV3
TV3 (Viasat)

TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Viasat is part of the Sweden media company Modern Times Group....
 Pulau Tengah, Johor, Malaysia
Pulau Besar, Malaysia		 20 Jerry Forsberg / Tilde Fröling
Tilde Fröling

Tilde Fr?ling , daughter of Sweden actors Ewa Fr?ling and ?rjan Ramberg, is a Swedish actress, TV presenter and Model .She was the winning participant in the 2005 TV3 celebrity version of Expedition Robinson....
 (Robinson V.I.P. Scandinavia)
2005 Robert Aschberg Hasse Aro / Frida Ĺberg TV3 Pulau Tengah, Johor, Malaysia
Pulau Besar, Malaysia		 24 Karolina Conrad
2009 Linda Isacsson
Linda Isacsson

Linda Susanna Isacsson is a former Miss Sweden and a TV personality, hostess, reporter and weather forecaster. She represented her country at Miss Universe 1990....
 - TV4 - - TBC


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