STRIX Television is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 production company that was founded in 1988 and today is serves as one of the largest production companies for the Nordic countries

Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

.. Strix’s head office is in Stockholm, Sweden. They also have offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Prague. It is a major international contributor to the format of reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 known as 'Survivor'. Since 1997 Strix has produced Expedition Robinson

Expedition Robinson

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 for an ever increasing audience throughout Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

. Its parent company is the international entertainment broadcasting group, Modern Times Group MTG AB. Additionally, they have produced other reality show formats, such as The Farm, The Bar

The Bar (TV Series)

The Bar was a popular Swedish reality television program, that was first seen in Sweden in 2000 and in other countries from 2001. For around two months, a number of contestants work in a bar and try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize...

, and Harem.

STRIX "Survivor" games worldwide:

• 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...
  
  
• Expedition Robinson
  Expedition Robinson
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