Expedición Robinson was a popular television show that aired in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 from 2000 to 2001 and was the first edition of Robinson

Expedition Robinson

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, or Survivor

Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a 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 show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...

as it is referred to in some countries to air in South America

South America

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. The show was not a success in Argentina and after only two seasons the show was canceled. The name alludes to both Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and...

and The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson

-History:Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance...

, two stories featuring people marooned by shipwrecks.

Format

The Robinson format was developed by Planet 24

Planet 24

Planet 24 was a television production company. It produced The Big Breakfast and The Word had an animation division Impossible TV. Bob Geldof and Tony Boland founded Planet Pictures which merged with 24 Hour Productions headed by Charlie Parsons and Waheed, later Lord Alli...

, a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 TV production company owned by Charlie Parsons

Charlie Parsons

Charlie Parsons is a British television producer who created a number of notable television shows including Survivor. He also created The Big Breakfast and The Word....

 and Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...

. Their company Castaway Television Productions retained the rights to the concept when they sold Planet 24

Planet 24

Planet 24 was a television production company. It produced The Big Breakfast and The Word had an animation division Impossible TV. Bob Geldof and Tony Boland founded Planet Pictures which merged with 24 Hour Productions headed by Charlie Parsons and Waheed, later Lord Alli...

 in 1999. Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett

Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...

 later licensed the format to create the U.S.

United States

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 show Survivor

Survivor (TV series)

Survivor is a 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 show uses a system of progressive elimination, allowing the contestants to vote off other tribe...

in 2000.

Sixteen contestants are put into a survival situation and compete in a variety of physical challenges. Early in each season three 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

Year	Channel	Participants	Winner
2000 Expedición Robinson 2000 Expedición Robinson 2000, was the first season of the Argentine version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it aired 2000. This season took place on an island in Panama...	Canal 13	16	Sebastian Martino
2001 Expedición Robinson 2001 Expedición Robinson 2001, was the second season of the Argentine version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it aired 2001. Like the previous season, this season took place on an island in Belize...		16	Maria "Vick" Fernández

External links

• http://replay.web.archive.org/20030831095924/http://www.robinsonlagranaventura.com.ve/secciones/participantes/default.htm?gabriel (Season 2 Archive)