Survivor (franchise)

Survivor, also known as Expedition Robinson, is a reality-based competition television show. 
==History==
Survivor is derived from a 1997 Swedish television series called Expedition Robinson. Following its success, in 2000, Mark Burnett collaborated with Charlie Parsons (who developed Expedition Robinson) to create the U.S. version, which they entitled . Initially, Burnett looked for a television network who would buy the concept, but was unsuccessful, until CBS accepted the offer.
The American series debuted on May 31, 2000, and amassed huge international success, which prompted Burnett and Parsons to produce more seasons after it.
Following the American franchise, other countries have produced their own versions of the series. The rights to these franchises are bought from Parsons' Castaway Television Productions.
In , the novel and film Lord of the Flies was said to be an inspiration of the series.
The Survivor series is considered to be the pioneer of the Reality Television genre, spawning several reality shows with completely different premises, either competition-based, or chronicling a famous person's daily life.
==Premise==
The show's premise is to subject sixteen to twenty strangers to a remote location, stripped away of most comforts in life such as food and technology. These contestants would be undergo challenges and physical and mental fatigue for 39 days. Divided in to teams called "tribes", the castaways must construct a new world while battling the elements and one another. Every few nights, the tribe that loses an Immunity Challenge would go to Tribal Council and must vote one of their own off the island. At a certain point, what remains from the original tribes would merge into one final tribe where they will compete for a seat at the Final Tribal Council, where the most recently eliminated castaways will ultimately decide which of the final few would earn the title of Sole Survivor and its accompanying $1,000,000 prize.
===Motto===
The series' motto, Outwit, Outplay, Outlast, is the three key factors to ensure victory in the game. "Outwit" is the strategic factor, where a contestant must cleverly make it through the game as unscathed as possible. To "Outplay" is to consider the other contestants and how to assimilate and/or manipulate them. "Outlast" stands for surviving as many days as possible.
==Format==
To know about Survivor's rules, refer to the Survivor Rulebook page.
Sixteen to twenty strangers will be marooned in an unforgiving territory where they will be divided into teams called "tribes". According to Jeff Probst, the standard sixteen-castaway format is implemented to make the viewers get to know each contestant more; but in seasons with more than sixteen contestants, Probst explained that the expanded cast is to have "wiggle room" in case of unprecedented events such as medical evacuations and voluntary exits.
Given a pre-determined amount of tools and supplies, the tribes would then proceed to their camps, which they will inhabit on for the next 39 days. These tools are usually limited to a machete, a cooking pot and water canteens. In some seasons, contestants are given limited food supplies such as rice and fruits. Otherwise, they have to rely on available flora and fauna for nourishment.
These tribes are also required to compete in competitions called "challenges", where they have to vie for either creature comforts such as additional supplies, food or love from home (Reward Challenges) or the right to stay for another cycle of days (Immunity Challenges). The tribe that loses at the Immunity Challenge must go to an elimination ceremony called Tribal Council where their actions will put into account. The tribe votes, and whoever receives the plurality of the votes (majority vote is not necessary) will be eliminated from the game. Occasionally, however, a twist may be present that allows previously voted out castaways to have a chance to reenter the game at a predetermined point.
At a certain point, the tribes will be merged into one final tribe, where they will now compete as individuals unlike the tribal phase, where challenges are won by group effort. In later seasons, the merge typically also marks the start of the jury phase, where the people who are eliminated will return to subsequent Tribal Councils to ultimately decide who among the final two/three will win the title of Sole Survivor and the million dollar prize that comes along with it at the Final Tribal Council.
Over the years, each franchise has introduced twists to the original format to make the game fresher and more interesting.
==International Franchises==
===Africa and the Middle East===
Country 	Local title 	Network 	Presenter
 	Survivor 	LBC 	Tareq Mounir
 	Survivor 	Channel 10 (season 1-6)Channel 2 (season 7-)	
 	Survivor South Africa	 	Mark Bayly (season 1-2) (season 3-present)
Pan-Regional	Survivor Africa 	 	
===Americas===
Country	Local title 	Network 	Presenter
 	 	 	Julián Weich
 	No Limite 	 	Zeca Camargo (season 1–4)André Marques (season 5)Fernando Fernandes (season 6–7)
() 	Survivor Québec 	https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/the-tribe-has-spoken-and-theyre-making-a-quebec-version-of-survivor	Patrice Bélanger
 	 	Canal 13 	Karla ConstantSergio Lagos
 	 	(season 1-2) (season 3-) 	Margarita Rosa de Francisco (season 1-2)Guillermo Prieto (season 3–6)Katerine Porto (season 3)Tatán Mejía (season 7)
 	 	 	Marisa Sánchez
 	La Isla 	(season 1-6) (season 7-) 	Alejandro Lukini
 	Survivor México 	 	Arturo Islas Allende (season 1)Carlos Guerrero (season 2-)
 	 	 	Jeff Probst
 	Robinson: La Gran Aventura	 	N/A
===Asia-Pacific===
Country	Local title 	Network 	Presenter
 	Australian Survivor 	Nine Network (season 1)Seven Network (season 2)Ten Network (season 3-present)	Lincoln Howes (season 1)Ian Dickson (season 2) (season 3-present)
 	Extreme Azerbaijan 	 	Emin Əhmədov
China 	Into The Shangri-La 	CCTV 	N/A
 	Ukanaskneli Gmiri 	 	Giorgi Korkia
 	Survivor India 	 	
 	Survivor Tamil 	 	
 	Survivor 	TBS 	Munehiro Tokita
 	Survivor New Zealand	TV2 	Matt Chisholm
 	Survivor Pakistan 	PTVARYTVOne Global 	N/A
 	 	GMA 	(season 1-2) (season 3-4)
 	Tôi là người dẫn đầu	 	Phan Anh
===Europe===
Country	Local title 	Network 	Presenter
 	Baltic Robinson 	 	Emil Rutiku (season 1-3)Pauls Timrots (season 1-3)Vytautas Kernagis (season 1-4)Tõnu Kark (season 4)Raimond Dombrovskis (season 4)
 	Survivor 	BTV 	Kamen Vodenicharov (season 1)Vladimir Karamazov(season 2-3, 4-6)Evtim Miloshev (season 4)Vanja Džaferović (season 7-)
 	Survivor Hrvatska 	HRT (season 1)RTL Televizija (season 2) (season 3-) (season 3-) (season 3-)Nova TV (season 3-) 	Kristijan Potočki (season 1)Andrija Milošević (season 2)Antonija Blaće (season 2)Marijana Batinić (season 2)Milan Kalinić (season 2)Bojan Perić (season 3-)Mario Mlinarić (season 3-)
 	Survivor Česko 	(season 1)TV Nova (season 2-) (season 4-) 	(season 1)Ondřej Novotný (season 2-)Martin Šmahel (season 4)
 	Robinson Ekspeditionen 	TV3 	Thomas Mygind (season 1–6)Jakob Kjeldbjerg (season 7–)
 	Suomen Robinson 	 	Jarmo Mäkinen (season 1)Arttu Harkki (season 2)
 	Selviytyjät Suomi 	(season 3) (season 4-) 	Heikki Paasonen (season 3)Juuso Mäkilähde (season 4-9)Riku Rantala (season 10-)
 	 	(season 1–5) (season 1-5)Tien (season 6–8)2BE (season 6–14) (season 6, 8–14) (season 15-16) 	Désiré Naessens (season 1)Ernst-Paul Hasselbach (season 1–9)Roos Van Acker (season 2–5)Lotte Verlackt (season 6–8)Evi Hanssen (season 8–14)Eddy Zoey (season 11–13)Dennis Weening (season 14)Bartel Van Riet (season 15-16)Geraldine Kemper (season 16)
 	Koh-Lanta 	 	Hubert Auriol (season 1)Denis Brogniart (season 2–)
 	 	ORF (season 1) (season 1-2) (season 3)VOX (season 4) 	Volker Piesczek (season 1)Pierre Geisensetter (season 2)Sascha Kalupke (season 3)Florian Weber (season 4)
 	 	(season 1-4) (season 3) (season 5-) (season 5-)TV8 (season 7) 	Grigoris Arnaoutoglou (season 1-2)Acun Ilıcalı (season 3, 7)Konstantinos Markoulakis (season 3)Giannis Aivazis (season 4)Sakis Tanimanidis (season 5-7)Giorgos Lianos (season 6-)Murat Ceylan (season 7)
 	Survivor – A Sziget 	 	András Stohl (season 1-2)Istenes Bence (season 3-4)Miklós Varga (season 5-)
 	Survivor Italia 	(season 1) 	Pietro Suber (season 1)Benedetta Corbi (season 1)
 	L'Isola dei Famosi 	(season 2-10) (season 11-) 	Simona Ventura (season 2–9)Marco Mazzocchi (season 2)Massimo Caputi (season 3-4)Paolo Brosio (season 5)Francesco Facchinetti (season 6, 8)Filippo Magnini (season 7)Rossano Rubicondi (season 8)Daniele Battaglia (season 9)Nicola Savino (season 9-10)Vladimir Luxuria (season 10-11)Alessia Marcuzzi (season 11-15)Alvin Bonato (season 11-12, 15, 17-)Stefano Bettarini (season 13)Stefano De Martino (season 14)Ilary Blasi (season 16-)Massimiliano Rosolino (season 16)
 	 	(season 1–5) (season 1-5)Tien (season 6–8)2BE (season 6–14) (season 6, 8–20) (season 21, 23-) (season 22) 	Désiré Naessens (season 1)Ernst-Paul Hasselbach (season 1–9)Roos Van Acker (season 2–5)Lotte Verlackt (season 6–8)Evi Hanssen (season 8–15)Eddy Zoey (season 11–13)Dennis Weening (season 14-20)Nicolette Kluijver (season 16-21, 23, 25-)Kaj Gorgels (season 21, 23)Bartel Van Riet (season 22)Geraldine Kemper (season 22, 24)Art Rooijakkers (season 24, 26-)Rick Brandsteder (season 25)
 	Robinsonekspedisjonen 	(season 1-14) (season 15-16) (season 17-18) 	Nils Ole Oftebro (season 1)Christer Falck (season 2-16)Silje Torp (season 17-18)
 	Wyspa Przetrwania 	(season 1) (season 2) 	Hubert Urbański (season 1)Damian Michałowski (season 2)
 	 	TVI 	Paulo SalvadorTeresa Guilherme
 	Survivor România 	Kanal D (season 1, 3-4) (season 2, 5-) 	Andrei Gheorghe (season 1) (season 2)Dan Cruceru (season 3)Daniel Pavel (season 4-)
 	Posledniy Geroy 	(season 1-6)TV-3 (season 7-9) 	(season 1) (season 2) (season 3) (season 4, Serdtse Afriki) (season 5) (season 6) (season 7-9)
 	Expedition Robinson VIP	 	Mikkel Beha Erichsen (Denmark)Christer Falck (Norway)Robert Aschberg (Sweden)
 	Survivor Srbija 	A1 Televizija (season 1) (season 1) (season 1-4) (season 1-2) (season 2)TV 3 (season 2)Sitel (season 2-4) (season 2-4)OBN (season 3-4)RTL (season 4) (season 5-) (season 5-) (season 5-)Nova TV (season 5-)	Andrija Milošević (season 1-4)Antonija Blaće (season 4)Marijana Batinić (season 4)Milan Kalinić (season 4)Bojan Perić (season 5-)Mario Mlinarić (season 5-)
 	 	TV3 (season 1)POP TV (season 2) 	Ula Furlan (season 1)Miran Stanovnik (season 2)
 	Survivor Slovensko 	(season 1) (season 2-)TV Nova (season 3-) 	(season 1) (season 1)Marián Mitaš (season 2)Martin Šmahel (season 3)Ondřej Novotný (season 3-)
 	Supervivientes 	(season 1-2; season 7-)Antena 3 (season 3-6) 	Juan Manuel López (season 1-2)Paco Lobatón (season 2)Paula Vázquez (season 3-6)Alonso Caparrós (season 3)Nuria Roca (season 4-6)Jesús Vázquez (season 7-11)José María Íñigo (season 7)Mario Picazo (season 8-10)Eva González (season 11)Jorge Javier Vázquez (season 12-)Raquel Sánchez (season 12-13)Lara Álvarez (season 14-21)Carlos Sobera (season 18-)Laura Madrueño (season 22-)
 	Expedition Robinson 	(season 1-7) (season 8-10) (season 11-15, 17-) (season 16) 	(season 1-2) (season 3-7, 23, 25-) (season 8-10) (season 11, 16) (season 12-15) (season 17-21)Petra Malm (season 22, 24)
 	 	 	Silvan Grütter
 	Survivor Türkiye 	(season 1) (season 2) (season 2-6)Star TV (season 7-8)TV8 (season 9-) (season 13) (season 13) 	Ahmet Utlu (season 1) (season 2-)Konstantinos Markoulakis (season 2)Hanzade Ofluoğlu (season 4) (season 6) (season 7-12)Giorgos Lianos (season 13)Murat Ceylan (season 13-)Sakis Tanimanidis (season 13)
 	Ostanniy Heroy 	ICTV 	Ostap Stupka
 	 	ITV (season 1-2)BBC (season 3) 	Mark Austin (season 1)John Leslie (season 1) (season 2) (season 3)
==Success==
Through Borneo until Tocantins and from Nicaragua to South Pacific, Survivor remained as one of the most watched television shows, breaking in to the Top 20 Most Watched shows of their respective television seasons. The season finale of Borneo, , featured the series' highest number of viewers, with 51.69 million viewers. The change of time slot in  (from Thursdays to Wednesdays) did not seem to affect ratings.
===Impact===
Survivor's success is largely thought as the proponent of the Reality Television genre, spawning several other reality shows, competition-based or otherwise. On a similar note, Mark Burnett subsequently produced several other competition-based programs such as The Apprentice, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Combat Missions (which starred Survivor: Borneo and  contestant Rudy Boesch), The Voice, among others.
===Merchandise===
In the United States version, other than DVDs and replica buffs, merchandise ranges from mugs, flash disks, keychains, computer games, and shirts. Several of the US show's props, such as contestants' torches, Immunity Idols and challenge paraphernalia are auctioned off for charity.
==Awards==
==External links==
*US version official website
*Australian version official website
*South African version official website
*Brazilian version official website
*Finnish version official website
*Mexican version official website
==References==
Category:Survivor (franchise)
Category:Survivor franchises