Expeditie Robinson

Expeditie Robinson
Created by	Charlie Parsons
Theme music composer	Hans Zimmer
Country of origin	Netherlands
Original language(s)	Dutch
No. of seasons	15
No. of episodes	192
Production
Producer(s)	Kanakna Productions
Location(s)	Malaysia (2000-2002, 2004-2005, 2007-2010, 2012-) Indonesia (2003) Philippines (2006, 2011) Panama (2006)
Release
Original network	RTL 5
Original release	2000 – present
Chronology
Related shows	Survivor
External links
Website

Expeditie Robinson is a popular reality television program in the Netherlands, that debuted in 2000. It was the second production worldwide of a format that was developed in the UK by Charlie Parsons. No British TV channel or production company believed in the idea, but the Swedish production company Strix Television did and thus the first season ever was broadcast in Sweden in 1997. The format that has since then also been produced in many other countries, most notable under the title Survivor. The name of the show alludes to Robinson Crusoe, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.

The fifteenth season in 2013 was the first season without contestants from Belgium, due to lack of television ratings in Belgium. However, the Flemish host Evi Hanssen will continue to co-host the show with Dutch host Dennis Weening.

In most seasons, 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 ("samensmelting"). At the end of each show, one contestant is eliminated by the other teams in a secret "Island Council" ballot.

The original presenter of Expeditie Robinson, Ernst Paul Hasselbach, died in 2008 in a car crash in Norway. He was there to make shoots for a new television program, named '71 graden Noord', a spin-off of Expeditie Robinson.

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