About this season
Skavlan 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."
Episodes (12)
1. Börje Ahlstedt, Eva Gabrielsson, September, Jens Stoltenberg
Aired 14 January 2011 • 58 min
2. Duffy, Joachim Larsson, Hanne-Vibeke Holst, Alex Schulman, Bjørn Eidsvåg
Aired 21 January 2011 • 58 min
3. Philip Zimbardo, Tommy Körberg, Gudrun Schyman, Lene Nystrøm, Kurt Elling
Aired 28 January 2011 • 58 min
4. Janne Josefsson, Malena Ernman, Pär Johansson, Pernille Sørensen, Kaizers Orchestra
Aired 4 February 2011 • 58 min
5. Carola Häggkvist, Robin Gibb, Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Thomas Bodström, Bjørn Dæhlie
Aired 11 February 2011 • 58 min
6. Stella Mwangi, Sven-Bertil Taube, Bodil Malmsten, Andreas Kleerup, André Pops
Aired 18 February 2011 • 58 min
7. Bert Sundström, Irina Sundström, Ingemar Stenmark, Ari Behn, Per Heimly, Omer Bhatti, Genevieve Jackson
Aired 25 February 2011 • 58 min
8. Natascha Kampusch, Dave Grohl, Kenny Bräck, Ane Dahl Torp
Aired 4 March 2011 • 58 min
9. Petter Northug, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Erna Solberg, Sir Ken Robinson, Nina Persson
Aired 11 March 2011 • 58 min
10. Jo Nesbø, Anne Sofie von Otter, Karen Armstrong, The Dudesons, Mari Boine
Aired 18 March 2011 • 58 min
11. Bob Geldof, Ingvar Oldsberg, Maiko Nishino, Christina Vukicevic, Petar Vukicevic
Aired 25 March 2011 • 58 min
12. Yusuf Islam - Cat Stevens, Lykke Li, Arja Saijonmaa, Morten Harket, David Garrett
Aired 1 April 2011 • 58 min