
Jan Guillou
Writer · b. 1944 · Södertälje, Stockholm County, Sweden
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget (Pirate Publishing), together with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp, and Liza Marklund.
Series22
TV6.4FamilyFilip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson put the general knowledge of popular celebrities to the test - with a brand new twist.
TV7.0ComedyNytt på nytt is a Norwegian version of the British comedy programme Have I Got News for You, by the production company Hat Trick Productions. The programme is aired weekly on Friday nights. The show is a competition between two panels, where one panelist is permanent, and the other is a guest. The goal is to solve several tasks. The element of competition is largely ignored in favour of the witty remarks and the banter between panelists. The scores are generally overlooked, and have only a brief mention at the end of the show. The host is Jon Almaas, with permanent panelists Knut Nærum and Ingrid Gjessing Linhave. Linhave replaced Linn Skåber from the autumn of 2013. Since the start in the spring of 1999, it has grown to become the most popular weekly show on Norwegian television, with more than a million viewers every week.
Nytt på nytt
1999 · 12 votes
TV6.7FamilyPå spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.
På spåret
1987 · 14 votes
TV5.0Talk ShowSkavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."
Skavlan
2009 · 10 votes
TVTalk ShowComedyHellenius Hörna
2010
TV8.2ComedyFamilyThe program follows the two presenters as they "live" in a certain time period. They dress up in period accurate clothes, and live life as you would in that certain time period with a large emphasis on the food. Each program features a guest chef who prepares period accurate food.
Historieätarna
2012 · 13 votes
TV10.0ComedyDocumentaryOver the course of eight episodes, the famed Norwegian musician and performer Kristopher Schau sets out to commit all the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. By using himself as his chief researcher’s tool, Schau holds a mirror to modern society and asks: What does the concept of religious dogma and the Seven Deadly Sins mean in a largely secularized world?
TVDocumentaryDramaArns rike
2004
TVComedyTalk ShowBabben & Co
2007
TV9.5Talk ShowLiterature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.
Babel
2014 · 1 votes
TV7.5DramaCrimeThe story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.
Kvällspressen
1992 · 2 votes
TVDocumentaryIn the four-episode series, Jan Guillou, Leif GW Persson and Pär Lorentzon engaged in hunting, fishing and other classically "male activities". The series can be described as a social program in a hunting environment, at a red cabin.
TV4.2DramaCrimeWallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.
Talismanen
2003 · 5 votes
TV7.5ComedyTalk ShowBoston Tea Party is a Swedish infotainment television program is broadcast on Kanal 5 hosted by Fredrik Wikingsson and Filip Hammar.
Boston Tea Party
2007 · 6 votes
- TVNewsTalk Show
Schulman show is a web-TV program on aftonbladet.se which premiered 30 October 2009. It is structured as a talk show in which TV host Alex Schulman talks with recurrent Ann Söderlund and Markus Larsson and usually a guest in each program. The topics are current entertainment events. Each program has had between 350,000 and 500,000 viewers, making it the Swedish breakthrough for Web TV.
Schulman Show
2009
TV8.0ComedyTalk ShowEtt herrans liv is a Swedish TV series that airs on Kanal 5. The hosts are Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson. On the show, the duo interview Swedish celebrities, many of which they've made fun of on their preceding shows. In the first season, every episode starts with the guest being kidnapped by the hosts. The show's theme song is I Wish by Skee-Lo.
Ett herrans liv
2006 · 3 votes
TV10.0DocumentaryLeif Silbersky has been a defender in many of Sweden's most media-acclaimed trials over the past fifty years. And in this three-part documentary, he tells himself about how it has been.
Silbersky
2019 · 3 votes
TV7.0DocumentaryCrime40 years ago, a woman was found dismembered under a highway in Stockholm. It was the beginning of what would become Sweden's strangest and most controversial legal process: the Catrine da Costa case. The two doctors Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén were identified as guilty of the dismemberment. But how did the legal system actually come to the conclusion that they were guilty?
TV10.0DocumentaryDocumentary about Leif GW Persson, told by Jens Lind. The story spans over seven decades, from Leifs birth at the end of world war II in march 1945, until now when the working class kid has become one of Swedens most appreciated writers and tv-personalities.
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
2015 · 2 votes
TV10.0DramaBirger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society
Korset
1985 · 1 votes
TVDocumentaryThe unlikely story of Sweden's most controversial big business owner, who in the 1970s steered the Kinnevik family business from traditional industry to becoming a giant in telephony and media.
Stenbeck
2013
TVDocumentaryWith the IB revelation in the 70s, Jan Guillou made the Swedish scoop of the century, was imprisoned for his words and wrote himself into Swedish press history. The program follows his trajectory from scandalous articles in men's magazines to his heyday as an investigative journalist, program host and strong voice in the social debate. Journalist Jan Guillou is portrayed by Kristina Hedberg. Participants also do i.a. former partner Marina Stagh, half-sister Pia Hansén, colleagues Staffan Heimerson, Britt-Marie Mattsson, Peter Bratt and Leif GW Persson.
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MovieDocumentary"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.
Movie7.3DocumentaryHasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
2019 · 9 votes
Movie7.6DocumentarySwedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
Palme
2012 · 32 votes
Movie7.8DocumentaryA documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären
2009 · 9 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about the author Jan Myrdal and his strange friendship with Lasse Diding, founder of the Jan Myrdal Society.
Movie9.0DocumentaryVarför erkände dom?
2008 · 2 votes
Movie6.6ComedySketch comedy. Look forward to an evening of satire, smut, and contemporary issues in an unholy mix. What more could you want? In these gloomy times? How many times has it been said about a film: "You've never seen anything like it"? This time, it's actually true. This film features, among other things, a bartender with a naked lower body, a double coffin with a built-in pie, a violent flight attendant, five screaming Salvation Army soldiers, a blind TV salesman, a dirty tennis ball and, of course, Uncle Bosse – dirtier than ever.
Movie5.0DocumentaryThe whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.
Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
2016 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Movie7.1DramaTV MovieCarl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American congressional hearing) to answer questions about a spy war between Sweden and the Soviet Union.
MovieDocumentaryIn Götene, they wanted to ride the wave of Arn fever and attract visitors from across the country. The solution was a gigantic medieval theme park – an investment that soon turned into an expensive lesson. Hundreds of millions in taxpayer money vanished, the plans collapsed, and the municipality was left with empty buildings.
Movie5.5DocumentaryHistoryAt the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Året var 1973
2023 · 2 votes