Expeditie Robinson

Expeditie Robinson is a popular reality television program in the Netherlands and Flanders (Belgium) that debuted in 2000. It was the second production worldwide of a format first shown in Swedish TV in 1997. The format, most notable under the title Survivor, has since then also been produced in many other countries. The name of the show alludes to Robinson Crusoe, a story featuring people marooned by shipwreck.

Expeditie Robinson
Created by	Charlie Parsons
Theme music composer	Hans Zimmer
Country of origin	Netherlands, Belgium
Original language(s)	Dutch
No. of seasons	15
No. of episodes	192
Production
Producer(s)	Kanakna Productions
Production location(s)	Malaysia (2000-2002, 2004-2005, 2007-2010, 2012-) Indonesia (2003) Philippines (2006, 2011) Panama (2006)
Release
Original network	RTL 5 (Netherlands), VT4 (Belgium)
Original release	2000 – present (Netherlands)/2012 (Belgium)
Chronology
Related shows	Survivor
External links
Website

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 would continue to co-host the show with Dutch host Dennis Weening. In 2014 Evi was replaced by Nicolette Kluijver.

Format

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.

Seasons

List of Expeditie Robinson seasons

Year	Location	Days	Castaways	Original tribes	Winner	Runner(s)-up	Final vote
2000	Malaysia	47	16	Two tribes of eight, divided into "North Team" and "South Team"	Karin Lindenhovius	Eva Willems	5-3
2001		39			Richard Mackowiak	Pascale Mertens	7-0
2002		47			Derek Blok	Olivier Glorieux	5-4
2003	Indonesia			Two tribes; the first with seven men and one woman, and the second with seven women and one man	Jutta Borms	Judge Chambliss	4-4[1]
2004	Malaysia	39	18	Two tribes of eight, divided into participants' country of origin, België (Belgium) and Nederlands (Netherlands)	Frank de Meulder	Matthias Verscheure	10-2
2005		47		Two tribes of eight and a secret tribe of two, divided into age groups; under 30s, over 40s and 30s	Marnix Allegaert	Emma Van Den Bossche Marleen Moer	16–9–3
2006	Expeditie Robinson: Battle of the Titans Philippines	30	17	Two tribes of eight[2]	Ryan van Esch	Jennifer Smit	4-2
2006	Panama	48	16	Two tribes of eight, including two returning participants, divided into men from Belgium and women from Netherlands	Olga Urashova	Lenny Janssen	N/A[3]
2007	Malaysia	46	100[4]	Two tribes of 27, divided into "North Team" and "South Team"[5]	Vinncent Arrendell	Willem Hogeveen	4-3
2008		47	16	Two tribes of eight	Yin Oei Sian	Hans Meenhorst	3-3[6]
2009			21	Two tribes of eight women and a secret tribe with five men who needed to race through the jungle (in a certain time) to join te game	Marcel Vandezande	Rita Berger Marina Harvent	5-2-0
2010		28	17	Two tribes of eight celebrities and a celebrity coming from "Geheim Kamp"	Regina Romeijn	Tatiana Silva	4-2
2011	Philippines	32	16	Two tribes of eight celebrities	Tanja Dexters	Niko Van Driessche Sascha Visser	N/A
2012	Malaysia			Two tribes of eight celebrities	Fatima Moreira de Melo	Fajah Lourens Christophe De Meulder Peggy Vrijens
2013				Two tribes of seven celebrities and an isolated tribe of two celebrities containing of the oldest male and oldest female contestant	Edith Bosch	Anna-Alicia Sklias Geraldine Kemper
2014	Caramoan, Philippines		18	Three tribes of six celebrities	Kay Nambiar	Ferry Doedens Krystl Pullens
2015			17	One tribe of seventeen celebrities, with one player outed to another island with uneven number of players. The rest of the players divided themselves into two teams each episode.	Amara Onwuka	Anna Speller Oscar Aerts
2016			16	Two tribes of eight celebrities divided into "North Team" and "South Team" and lived on the same island	Bertie Steur	Thomas Dekker Diorno "Dio" Braaf
2017			19	Two tribes of seven celebrities and a tribe consisting of four Dutch players and a celebrity	Carlos Platier Luna	Kaj Gorgels Soundos El Ahmadi
2018			21	Two tribes of seven celebrities and a tribe of seven Dutch players	Jan Bronninkreef	Gregory Sedoc Dominique Hazeleger
2019		33	20	Two tribes of eight celebrities and an isolated tribe of four celebrities	Hugo Kennis	Shary-An Nivillac Eva Cleven
2020	Expeditie Robinson: Belgium vs. Netherlands Caramoan, Philippines	32	16	Two tribes divided by country of origin. Two contestants swapped tribes after losing initial challenge.	Thomas Roobrouck	Elroy Lemmens Koen Loomans

1. Ultimately, it was Jutta Borms from Belgium who won the season over Judge Chambliss from the Netherlands with an initial jury vote of 4-4, which was eventually broken by a public jury vote in which the public voted in favor of making Jutta the winner with 66% of the vote.
2. As the winner of this challenge Ilona van der Laan, along with Veronique De Pryker, who Ilona picked as the person she got along with the least, picked their tribes from the fifteen other contestants. The last person not picked, Björn Lemeirel, was eliminated from the game.
3. When it came time to vote for a winner, the public, instead of a jury decided the winner. In the end, it was Olga Urashova who returned from Losers island in the final three, who won the season over Lenny Janssen with a public vote of 52% to Lenny's 48%.
4. The initial major twist this season was that for the first time in the history of any Survivor franchise worldwide one hundred contestants would take part in a single season
5. The twist, however, didn't last very long as in episode 2 twenty five of the contestants voluntarily left the game, in episode 3 twenty one contestants were eliminated as they were not picked to be on either the North team or the South team.
6. At the live finale, 81 contestants from previous seasons had to choose their winner, due to the equal voting by the eliminated contestants.

Ernst Paul Hasselbach

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, 71 graden Noord, a spin-off of Expeditie Robinson.

External links

• Official website of Expeditie Robinson
• Official website of Expeditie Robinson at 2BE
• Blog of Expeditie Robinson (Dutch)
• Expeditie Robinson on IMDb