Sven Alarik Melander (30 October 1947 – 31 March 2022) was a Swedish journalist, comedian, television presenter, and actor. He hosted multiple shows for SVT, acted in films and theater, and co-presented the 1994 Melodifestivalen competition.
På 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.
Release Date1987-09-05
Charactersd Tävlande
Episode Count11
Vote Count14
Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson put the general knowledge of popular celebrities to the test - with a brand new twist.
Release Date2019-03-04
Charactersd Himself - Contestant
Episode Count7
Vote Count7
TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.
Release Date2015-02-18
Charactersd Himself
Episode Count1
Snacka om nyheter was the Swedish version of the BBC series Have I Got News for You, broadcast by Sveriges Television. It was first broadcast on March 5, 1995 on TV2 and hosted by Stellan Sundahl. On February 22, 1999, Stellan Sundahl died, days after taping an episode that was shown the day before he died. The show was put on hiatus and the three remaining episodes were replaced by commemorative programmes. The show returned in November 2000 and was hosted by Sven Melander who would continue hosting it until the show's cancellation. The last programme was broadcast on December 21, 2003. Snacka om nyheter took many rounds from the British original, including the "Film Round", "Tabloid Headlines", "Odd One Out", "Missing Words" and "Caption Competition". Other elements borrowed from Have I Got News for You were the opening that included the phrase "Good evening and welcome to Snacka om nyheter" followed by a punch-line and the three "news reports" in the beginning as well as the humorous delivery of the scores. In 2008 the show began airing again, this time on Kanal 9, hosted by Kajsa Ingmarsson and produced by Jarowskij.
Release Date1995-03-05
Charactersd Programledare
Episode Count40
Vote Count2
Release Date1987-03-10
Charactersd TV-producenten
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Swedish celebrities put their baking skills to the test and bake their best to impress the rock-hard jury for the chance to win SEK 50,000 for charity. Under time pressure, they will bake everything from delicious cookies to magnificent cakes.
Release Date2014-07-21
Charactersd Himself - Contestant
Episode Count4
Join us as twelve well-known people take part in one of the world's most spectacular singing competitions. Their identity is kept secret behind fabulous masks and it is up to our expert panel to figure out who is hiding behind the creations.
Release Date2021-03-26
Charactersd Pingvinen
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
At Tomten’s home in the North Pole, preparations are underway for Christmas. The snowman and the elves don’t have wish lists, so Santa’s workshop only runs at half speed. The problem is that people in the ordinary world have stopped believing in Santa’s existence. And if everyone stops believing in Santa, the lamp of light goes out and the world of Santa comes to an end. Santa needs to pull himself up quickly and Mother Santa and the whole family are fighting to get Santa back on track, before it’s too late.
Release Date2019-12-01
Charactersd Medlem i tomterådet
Episode Count24
Vote Count2
Playa del Sol is a Swedish comedy, directed by Peter Settman and Leif Lindblom and Jon Holmberg and Kicki Kjellin, which were broadcast on Sundays at 20.00 on SVT 1. The series consists of two seasons, with a total of 25 half-hour episodes. Season 1 aired from 21 January 2007 to 15 April 2007 while season 2 aired from 27 September 2009 to 20 December 2009. Starring Mikael Tornving and Henrik Hjelt. The first episode was seen by over 2.36 million viewers.
Release Date2007-01-21
Charactersd Sven Melander
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Impulsive Karin has never really found her calling in life - unlike her partner Henke, whose dream is to run his restaurant to the top class. When the dream comes crashing down, they have to swallow their pride.
Release Date2020-08-02
Charactersd Lars
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Release Date1985-10-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Charactersd
Episode Count[ 10 ]
Vote Count1
Release Date1984-01-21
Charactersd Various
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
When the inexperienced football coach Selma Nord takes over Vinninge BK, the team is in last place in division 7 Södra Skåne (South Skåne). Selma immediately finds herself at odds with the star player of the team Roy "Kroyf" Andersson, who is skeptical of the new coach's abilities. The team spirit is in jeopardy, and the situation gets worse when the owners of the team's home field threatens to turn it into a sugar beet plantation once the season is over. Now Selma has to win Kroyf over to her side.
Release Date2018-04-04
Charactersd Seved
Episode Count8
After getting terrible reviews on his new movie "Veni, Vidi, Vici", Karsten Daugaard is forced out of the movie business. His old friend, Vincent, comes to the rescue when he offers him a job of directing porn.
Release Date2017-04-13
Charactersd Wille
Episode Count10
Vote Count8
Release Date2011-06-01
Charactersd Kapten Sten Jern
Vote Count1
Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
Release Date1980-08-22
Charactersd Berra Ohlsson
Vote Count113
At the Café René in the small French commune of Nouvion everything is as usual. Chaos. René himself is trying to keep a straight face in a dangerous game. Of course he has to stay on the good side of the Germans in order to not get in trouble. He also has to do the same thing with his wife Edith for the same reason. For completely different reasons he stays on the good side of his waitresses Mimi and Yvette. At least when Edith isn't around.
Release Date2014-01-06
Charactersd René Artois
Vote Count3
A twisted and exciting meeting between Lasse Åberg and Stig-Helmer.
Release Date2020-12-29
Charactersd Bertil Ohlsson
Vote Count2
The brothers Ingmar and Gustav Nilsson are running a motel and a shop where everything from car tires to fish nets can be bought. They're very unsuccessful, and Ingmar wants to sell the place, but Gustav doesn't. One day the municipality wants to buy their business buildings, but they refuse to tell why until they've bought it. Meanwhile, Ingmar wants to hire a woman that he can fall in love with and Lufsen, a dizzy craftsman, is trying to fix some sewage pipes in the kitchen. Written by J. Rieper
Release Date2005-01-01
Charactersd Malte Andersson
Vote Count2
In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
Release Date1984-08-31
Charactersd Shop Assistant
Vote Count13
The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Åberg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
Release Date2011-12-25
Charactersd Bertil "Berra" Olsson
Vote Count38
Compiled from the first season of the web-series “Mina problem”, this is a feature length version of the meta-comedy following comedian Simon Gärdenfors as himself. Navigating the stand-up scene of Sweden and some tangled relationships, the film sees the reality merge with fiction in fun ways.
Release Date2021-04-20
Charactersd Sven-Allan Rubinstein
Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
Release Date1990-12-23
Charactersd Tryggve
Vote Count23
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.
Release Date1997-01-17
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.
Release Date2005-08-26
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Release Date2010-10-07
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Robins is a Swedish late-night talk show which premiered on SVT2 on August 23, 2006. The host is the young stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson from Malmö. The show's format is similar to that of other late-night shows, Robin makes jokes about recent news, shows sketches, and talks to a guest in the studio. One of the most popular sketches in the show features Robin appearing as Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović.
Release Date2006-08-23
Charactersd Self - Guest
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Fredrik, the single father of Magda, is too occupied with his race horse Kisa to see that his daughter has problems in school. But one day Magda brings home a new friend, Helena, caller at the local bingo hall. Fredrik is soon smitten by the frank and outspoken 29-year-old. Helena and a self-confident Magda help Fredrik to see why his horse never wins the races.
Release Date2005-01-28
Charactersd Self
Vote Count5
Tongue-in-cheek infotainment show following hosts Anders Johansson and Måns Nilsson as they investigate various societal and cultural topics.
Release Date2003-10-17
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
On May 8, 1978, it was unusually quiet in the Aftonbladet editorial office. A stenciled document lay on every desk. "About our life at Aftonbladet, by the women in the Aftonbladet editorial office" was the text on the red cover, and the pages contained testimonies of sexual harassment and a deep-rooted alcohol culture in the workplace. The manifesto created a heated debate and later led to Aftonbladet starting the first women's editorial office in Swedish press. This documentary is about how the Document, 40 years before #metoo, changed the world, at least a little.
Release Date2018-04-20
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Release Date1991-01-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Charactersd Self
Episode Count[ 8 ]
Documentary 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.
Release Date2015-12-29
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
A concert with Björn Afzelius at the Hovdala Castle during his summer tour of 1989.
Release Date1989-01-01
Charactersd Self / Interviewer
In the Footsteps of Stig Helmer is a 66 minute documentary about the making of a series of comedy movies focusing on the character Stig Helmer and his vacationing trips, all filled with comical events and complications.
Release Date2004-01-01
Charactersd Self
In the spring of 2022, the comedian, actor and journalist Sven Melander passed away after a long illness. He then had a long career behind him in stage, film and television. With his unique combination of warmth, intelligence and mischievousness, he not only won the audience's love, but also made a clear mark in Swedish entertainment history. In this portrait, the story of Sven's career is told, but we also meet him on a more personal level when he talks about his alcoholism, outlook on life, childhood and where he got his sense of humour.
Release Date2022-08-08
Charactersd Self
In Sven Melander's last comedy series, we follow the Mursa family who, after inheriting hundreds of millions of kroner, move from Rosengård in Malmö to Strandvägen in Stockholm.
Release Date2023-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count2
A new production of the play "Hurra, ein Junge!" at Fredriksdalsteatern.
Release Date2018-06-16
DepartmentWriting
JobCreative Producer
Billy is about to become the heir to a millionaire, provided that he is the only living heir. Complications arise quite soon when it turns out that Billy has three twin brothers who are also looking after heritage.
Release Date1993-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Comedy about a cab driver who is a bigamist.
Release Date1992-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
2015's traditional production from Eva Rydberg and Fredriksdalsteatern. Based on a comedy by Ludvig Holberg about restless people who rush and stand around but still don't get anything done. The play was originally called The Rushed One. Cast: Eva Rydberg, Johannes Brost, Marie Robertsson, Lotta Ramel and others.
Release Date2016-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".
Release Date1959-02-26
Vote Count8
Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.
Release Date2006-01-01
Episode Count5
Vote Count3
Release Date2014-04-26
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
Release Date1983-08-26
Vote Count8
In Knohult things havn't changed much. Eulalia is tired of Nisse who's engaged in all sorts of inventions in his workshop or poaching in the forest rather than to repair the water pump. When Eulalia in protest begins swimming in soft drinks and water the plants with spirit Åsa-Nisse sees nothing else to do but to repair the pump. As with all his inventions he adds a few extra features ... When he starts the machine the ground rumbles and up comes oil instead of water! Now, not only Åsa-Nisse, but the whole Knohult sees their chance to become wealthy! But "Dunderpumpen", as he calles the invention, turns out to be stronger than anyone had imagined, and when shady Scanian oil magnates with support of the Swedish government wants their share of the pie Knohult declares themselves a republic...
Release Date2011-02-11
Vote Count24
