Robinsonekspedisjonen is a popular Norwegian

Norway

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 reality television

Reality television

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 program debuting in 1999. In the of fall 1998 TV3

TV3 (Norway)

TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...

 purchased the broadcast rights to air their own version of Expedition Robinson

Expedition Robinson

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. Norway was one of the first countries to adopt the Robinson format following its success in both Sweden and Denmark. While it has never achieved as high of ratings as that of Denmark and Sweden's versions of the show, it is still considered a ratings success.

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.

Following a two year hiatus after the VIP season with Denmark and Sweden, Robinsonekspedisjonen returned in 2007 and has seen a season over season ratings growth since.

Format

The Robinson format was developed by Planet 24

Planet 24

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, a United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 TV production company owned by Charlie Parsons

Charlie Parsons

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 and Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

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. 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

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 later licensed the format to create the U.S.

United States

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 show Survivor

Survivor (TV series)

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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

Year	Host	Producer	Channel	Participants	Winner
1999 Robinsonekspedisjonen 1999 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 1999, was the first season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 19th of September 1999 and aired until the 5th of December 1999. The first season took place on the island of Cadlao outside of the Philippines. Nils Ole...	Nils Ole Oftebro	Malin Kvist	TV3 TV3 (Norway) TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...	16	Christer Falch
2000 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2000 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2000 was the second season of Robinsonekspedisjonen, the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson. It aired from 10 September to 3 December 2000. Christer Falch was the host for the second season of Robinsonekspedisjonen and has been the host ever since...	Christer Falch			16	Therese Andersen
2001 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2001 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2001, was the third season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 9th of September 2001 and aired until the 2nd of December 2001. The third season took place on an island in Malaysia. In episode five of this season, the first...				17	Mia Martinsen
2002 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2002 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2002, was the fourth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 22nd of September 2002 and aired until the 15th of December 2002. The fourth season took place on an island in Malaysia. For the fourth season the amount of...				18	Ann Karene Molvig
2003 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2003 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2003, was the fifth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 7th of September 2003 and aired until the 7th of December 2003. The fifth season took place on an island in Malaysia. In the fifth season the number of...				16	Emil Orderud
2004 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2004 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2004, was the sixth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 5th of September 2004 and aired until the 4th of December 2004. The sixth season started out with a twist, the contestants had to race from off the shore on to...				20	Jan Stian Gundersen
2005 (VIP) Expedition Robinson 2005 (VIP) Expedition Robinson: VIP, was the first celebrity version of Expedition Robinson, or Survivor as it is referred to in some countries, to air in Scandinavia and it aired in 2005. This was also one the first editions of Expedition Robinson in which more than one country participated as Denmark,...	Mikkel Beha Erichsen			15 VIP	Tilde Fröling
2007 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2007 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2007, was the seventh season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 9th of September 2007 and aired until the 2nd of December 2007. As this was the first season of Robinson to air since its initial cancellation in 2007, the...	Christer Falch			19	Ann-Kristin Otnes
2008 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2008 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2008, was the eighth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 5th of September 2008 and aired until the 5th of December 2008. The major twist in season eight was the "Heaven and Hell" living areas that the tribes lived in...				23	Tom Andre Tveitan
2009 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2009 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2009, was the ninth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 6th of September 2009 and aired until the 6th of December 2009. The major twist this season was that of Team X, a team of contestants that had previously been...				20	Lina Iversen
2010 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2010 Robinsonekspedisjonen: 2010, is the tenth season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson and it premiered on the 12th of September 2010. The main twist this season is that the teams are divided up by region of origin with the members of the north team coming from northern...				20	Alita Dagmar Kristensen
2011 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2011 Robinsonekspedisjonen 2011, is the eleventh season of the Norwegian version of the Swedish show Expedition Robinson. This season will premiere on September 4, 2011 and will finish in early December...				19	Lillan Ramøy
2012