Club Goa
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Club Goa was a 2005 TV show in which STRIX Television
's 12 most famous reality TV stars went on a bar tour to Goa
, India
. In 2005, several reality shows had been aired in Sweden on the commercial channels TV3
, TV4 and Kanal 5
, as well as on SVT
, for a couple of years and produced quite a few celebrities in the process. TV3
took it on themselves to gather the most famous Swedish reality show participants from such shows, including Expedition Robinson
, Big Brother
, Baren, and so forth to run a restaurant in Drop Anchor, Goa
, India
. The show was never a big success on TV3.
Club Goa was built upon strong characters and big cultural challenges. In the first series there were former reality TV participants from various shows that were highly familiar to the audience. The journey ended at a beach club in Goa
, where celebrities were not just expected to work as bartenders, but also to take responsibility for the bar, the restaurant, marketing, and big events. One after another they were forced to leave the party and return home to a freezing winter. The last one standing on the beach won $500,000.
For 13 weeks, the celebrities had to successfully run the beach club. Their assignment was to take care of all PR, marketing, events, and serving food and drinks. For the first 8 weeks the participants were divided into two teams. Each week a competition was held that could involve all or just a few of the participants. The competitions were often related to the work at the beach club in some way.
Nomination meeting:
Each week, the losing team of the week held a nomination meeting, where they chose the ones who were directly nominated to the weekly final club meeting, where they would risk losing their place in Club Goa. The nominated participant then got to choose who would be sitting on the other "hot seat" in the voting (who would be the election opponent).
Warnings from the program host:
The program host could give warnings to participants by handing out yellow cards to anyone who had behaved poorly. The program host also had authority to disqualify participants by giving them a red card. Upon receiving a red card, the participant had to immediately leave Club Goa.
Club meeting:
Five days a week, the audience could follow the participants' adventures. Social, professional, and cultural challenges were constantly recurring ingredients. The fifth day would conclude with an elimination process at the club meeting, where the participants would decide which one of them would be forced to leave Club Goa.
The final battle:
After 8 weeks the teams were unified into one again. From this point, all remaining participants battled in an individual competition, where only one could be the winner at the end.
Strix (TV production company)
STRIX Television is a Swedish television production company that was founded in 1988 and today is serves as one of the largest production companies for the Nordic countries.. Strix’s head office is in Stockholm, Sweden. They also have offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Prague. It is a...
's 12 most famous reality TV stars went on a bar tour to Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. In 2005, several reality shows had been aired in Sweden on the commercial channels TV3
TV3 (Sweden)
TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...
, TV4 and Kanal 5
Kanal 5 (Sweden)
Kanal 5 is a Swedish commercial television channel established in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation ProSiebenSat.1 Media.After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 launched new strategies in the early 2000s that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people...
, as well as on SVT
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
, for a couple of years and produced quite a few celebrities in the process. TV3
TV3 (Viasat)
TV3 is the brand name used by Viasat's flagship channels in Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Viasat is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group...
took it on themselves to gather the most famous Swedish reality show participants from such shows, including Expedition Robinson
Expedition Robinson
Sources-External links:* *...
, Big Brother
Big Brother (Sweden and Norway)
Big Brother is a reality show shown on Kanal 5 in Sweden, and TV Norge in Norway, in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run...
, Baren, and so forth to run a restaurant in Drop Anchor, Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The show was never a big success on TV3.
Club Goa was built upon strong characters and big cultural challenges. In the first series there were former reality TV participants from various shows that were highly familiar to the audience. The journey ended at a beach club in Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, where celebrities were not just expected to work as bartenders, but also to take responsibility for the bar, the restaurant, marketing, and big events. One after another they were forced to leave the party and return home to a freezing winter. The last one standing on the beach won $500,000.
Parts of the show
Missions to accomplish:For 13 weeks, the celebrities had to successfully run the beach club. Their assignment was to take care of all PR, marketing, events, and serving food and drinks. For the first 8 weeks the participants were divided into two teams. Each week a competition was held that could involve all or just a few of the participants. The competitions were often related to the work at the beach club in some way.
Nomination meeting:
Each week, the losing team of the week held a nomination meeting, where they chose the ones who were directly nominated to the weekly final club meeting, where they would risk losing their place in Club Goa. The nominated participant then got to choose who would be sitting on the other "hot seat" in the voting (who would be the election opponent).
Warnings from the program host:
The program host could give warnings to participants by handing out yellow cards to anyone who had behaved poorly. The program host also had authority to disqualify participants by giving them a red card. Upon receiving a red card, the participant had to immediately leave Club Goa.
Club meeting:
Five days a week, the audience could follow the participants' adventures. Social, professional, and cultural challenges were constantly recurring ingredients. The fifth day would conclude with an elimination process at the club meeting, where the participants would decide which one of them would be forced to leave Club Goa.
The final battle:
After 8 weeks the teams were unified into one again. From this point, all remaining participants battled in an individual competition, where only one could be the winner at the end.
Rules
Club Goa's rules were the following:- The participants were divided into two teams.
- There was a competition each week.
- The losing team had a vote on which team member that was to leave the show.
- In the final all participants voted on the finalist they preferred.
- The participants got different numbers of votes depending on how many weeks they had lasted.
- The finalist with the most votes won the reality show.
Presenters
- Robert AschbergRobert AschbergRobert Aschberg is a Swedish journalist and TV personality on TV3. Robert is the grandson of Olof Aschberg.-External links:...
, Diskutabelt, Baren, Insider - Paolo RobertoPaolo RobertoPaolo Roberto is a Swedish ex-boxer, actor, and TV host of partial Italian descent.-Outside boxing:...
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Entertainment consultants
- Nalle Knutsson
- Frida Lundell, Expedition: Robinson, Survival, UnderCoverUndercoverBeing undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence...
- Jörgen "Jugge" NohallJugge NohallJugge Nohall, born Mark Erik Jörgen Nohall, September 6, 1964 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer and artist, who has written a song for the Swedish national final of the Eurovision song contest, participated in two reality shows on Swedish television and worked as a radio talkshow host.- References :...
Participants
- Caroline Björkman, Big Brother
- Tess Bylund, Bachelor
- Sebastian Dawkins, Farmen
- Marie Forsberg, Farmen
- Lars Gåre, Expedition: Robinson
- Johan "Molle" HolmbergMolle HolmbergJohan ”Molle” Holmberg is a Swedish celebrity, reality show participant and musician, born 1978 and settled in Drottningholm, Stockholm, Sweden....
, Baren (Winner) - Jan "Blondie" Hammarlöf, Farmen
- Kitty JutbringKitty JutbringKitty Jutbring , is a Swedish radio and TV personality from Gothenburg. She first claimed fame in 2002, as a contestant in Big Brother Sweden's second season. Since then Jutbring has frequently appeared on on the SR P3 radio program Christer, in a segment called the Relationship Council...
, Big Brother - Niklas "Biffen" Jansson, Villa Medusa
- Jan O. Jansson, Farmen
- Kent Larsen, Expedition: Robinson
- Veronika Larsson, Farmen
- Frida Lundell, Expedition: Robinson, Survival, UnderCoverUndercoverBeing undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence...
- Marina Milosevic, Farmen
- Frida Norén, Farmen
- Qristina Ribohn, Farmen, Baren
- Stefan Sahlin, Villa Medusa
- Zübeyde Simsek, Expedition: Robinson
- Benjamin Sorani, Big Brother
- Meral Tasbas, Baren
- Özcan Yildiz, Farmen