Expedición Róbinson (Colombia)

"Expedición Róbinson" is a Colombian version of the "Survivor" reality television game show based on the Swedish television series "Expedition Robinson" originally created in 1992 by Charlie Parsons. The show is based on stranding a group of strangers as one or more tribes in a remote location, where they must fend for food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves, while competing in challenges to earn rewards and immunity from being voted off by the tribe in progressive eliminations; the last challenger remaining at the end of the competition wins two a reward that ranges from two hundred million to three hundred million pesos prize (100-150 hundred thousandUS$) and title of "Colombian Robinson".

"Expedición Róbinson" rights were bought by Caracol TV in 2001 [ [http://www.canalcaracol.com/historia.aspx Caracol TV History (in Spanish)] ] . This television network produced the first two seasons of Expedition Robinson. Both seasons were hosted by former beauty queen and actress Margarita Rosa de Francisco [ [http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-438355 Margarita Rosa talks about Expedición Robinson (in Spanish)] ] . Two years later, rights for "Expedición Robinson" were sold to RCN TV. The series changed its original name to "La Isla de los FamoS.O.S." ("Famous People Island", in english), in which all contestands were celebrities of Colombia. "RCN TV" has produced three seasons of "La Isla de los FamoS.O.S." and all three of them have been hosted by journalist Guillermo Prieto "Pirry". For its part, "Caracol TV" has developed a variation of the show whose name is "El desafío 20-0_" (in wich the last number represents the year the season has been aired. i.e. "Desafío 20-08" [ [http://www.canalcaracol.com/desafio2008/default.aspx Desafío 20-08 Official website (in Spanish)] ] ). So far, five seasons of "El Desafío" have been aired, three of them hosted by "Margarita Rosa de Francisco" again.

=Expedición Robinson=

"Expedición Robinson" aired two seasons in 2001 and 2002, respectively before being sold. Both seasons were a hit in Colombian audience. These seasons followed the same general format as the Swedish series.

eason 1: Expedición Róbinson

The show's first season was filmed during 2001 and was aired later that year. It was set on Bocas del Toro, off the Caribean Coast of Panama. [ [http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-666946 Expedición al corazón de los Robinson (in Spanish)] ]

16 Colombians (8 women and 8 men) took part in the first season. The price was 200 million Colombian pesos. Contestants were divided into two initial tribes: Ukups and Atchas, these Kuna words mean "ants" and "bees", respectively. Ukup team was represented by yellow color as Atcha team was represented by orange color.

Thirteen episodes aired weekly on Sundays. Each episode lasted an hour except the season finale which lasted two hours. Besides official episodes, "El Diario Robinson" was aired during every week the show lasted on air. It was a 15 minutes long program in which unseen scenes from each episode were shot.

The show was won by Rolando Patarroyo. He was part of the Atcha tribe, who were outnumbered by the Ukup tribe at tribal merger. He won the 200 million pesos price and was presented as "the first Colombian Robinson". Marlon Restrepo, the runner-up of this season was rewarded with a van.

Participants

Voting history

ref|Pedro's Vote|1 The vote was initially tied 5-5 between Ronald and Juan Gabriel, but after a revote, Pedro changed his vote so Ronald was eliminated.

Elimination notes

*Pilar - Pilar was well liked among the Kahaya tribe. She got along with everybody and was very friendly. However, she got very ill during the first night in the island. Her illness detracted strongly from her contribution to the group and she was eliminated. (voted out 5-3)

*César - Kahaya tribe found a tuberous root shrub near the camp shelter. They decided to collect some tubers to cook and eat them. However, it wasn't good idea at all as many tribe members became intoxicated, especially Diana Marcela. This weakened the tribe and they lost IC for the second time. César had been viewed as being too lazy around camp so they decided to vote him out and to keep an ill member hoping she would get better later. (voted out 6-1)

*Reyna - Reyna was a loner at Mucaro Camp. She wasn't liked by most of the tribe men who labelled her as a weak person. She wasn't well treated by Jean Pierre and Pedro either. When Mucaro lost its first IC, Reyna was eliminated unanimously. (voted out 7-1)

*Diana - A tribal swap, mixed things up. Ivan, Diana Marcela, Juan Gabriel and Juliana were traded to Mucaro; Carolina, Pedro, Danilo and Diana became part of Kahaya. Former Mucaro members found difficulties trying to adapt themselves at their new tribe camp. Furthermore, food was scarcing so Jimena decided to cook the same tuber that had former Kahayas fallen ill before. The result was exactly the same, new Kahaya members became intoxicated, specially Carolina. When Carolina found out it had happened before, she got very angry, thinking it was Jimena and Ronald's plan in order to intentionally weaken the former Mucaros and get rid of one of them. However, at tribal council, Jimena and Ronald talked about how glad they were about having new tribe mates so the new Kahayas turned on Diana as she was the weakest member of the tribe. (voted out 6-1)

*Jean Pierre - Things at Kahaya camp got better and Jimena and Carolima became good friends. On the other hand, frictions and tensions appeared at Mucaro camp. The tribe swap had taken away Jean Pierre's allies and had brought a strong competition to him. Cristobal and Camila got along with Iván and Diana Marcela as they all were from the same Colombian region so they made a very strong alliance. Things weren't good between women eithe and Juliana and Diana Marcela began having constant arguments. Jean Pierre's cocky attitude and intentions to get rid of Iván, the strongest member of new Mucaro tribe, angered Cristobal and Camila so he was eliminated. In retaliation for being eliminated, Jean Pierre took the tribe snorkel, diving mask and some fishing devices with him. (voted out 4-3)

*Juliana - Juliana got isolated at the Mucaro tribe as frictions with Diana Marcela and Camila became more frequent. Being viewed as a very conflictive person, Juliana was unanimously eliminated. (voted out 5-1)

*Ronald - Tribes were merged into the new Yabisi (tree) tribe. It was evident both former tribes had made their own alliances so neither of them were willing to lose any member. At tribal council there was a tie between Ronald and Juan Gabriel, each one receiving 5 votes against them. Contestants were asked to vote again. This time, Pedro decided to change his vote as he wanted all original Mucaro members (Pedro, Danilo, Cristobal, Camila and Carolina) to make it to the Final 5 and he had been contemplaiting the possibility of getting rid of Ronald days before. Ronald was narrowly eliminated. (voted out 6-4)

=References=

=External links=
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307746/ "Expedición Robinson 1"] in [IMDb]