Expedition Robinson is a
Swedish reality television program in which contestants are put into
survival situations, and a voting process eliminates one person each episode until a winner is determined. The format was developed in 1994 by
Charlie Parsons for a
United Kingdom TV production company called
Planet 24, but the Swedish debut in 1997 was the first production to actually make it to television. An American version called
Survivor, started in 2000.