The first channel to follow the wave of post-Gf Italy1 reality was that the 13 February 2001 set off at 20.40 with Survivor Italia. The program derived from a format that had already cashed big plays around the world, thus became one of the biggest bets of the direct network by Roberto Giovalli. Then he changed the concept of reality. They not watched over 10 competitors in a house but you were following the events of 16 novel Robinson Crusoe between 22 and 48 years ( professionals, students, employed, unemployed and a hostess of 'Alitalia on leave ) divided into two tribes Kuna and Tolote and isolated for 43 days on the archipelago of Bocas del Toro, off the coast of Panama in the struggle to survive and win the prize money of half a billion old lire.