The Best TV Shows on Kanal 5

Every Kanal 5 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of September 2025, our compilation of Kanal 5’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Among Kanal 5’s finest offerings are Måndagsklubben and Mullvaden, which debuted in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From 1996 through to 2024, Kanal 5 has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows.

  • Ett herrans liv
    Ett herrans liv (2006)9.5

    Ett 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.

  • High Chaparall
    High Chaparall (2003)9.3

    High Chaparall is a Swedish television program which first aired in 2003 on the Kanal 5 network. The show is an interview/adventure series featuring the Swedish comedy duo of Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. Although the pair continued to be provocative, this program proved to be less controversial than their previous television work and ultimately became much more successful. The team is known popularly in Sweden as simply "Filip and Fredrik."

  • Mullvaden
    Mullvaden (2000)9.0

  • Över Atlanten
    Över Atlanten (2019)8.7

    Six famous Swedes embark on the greatest adventure of their lives - a voyage across the Atlantic. 500 miles on the high seas. Surrendered to the forces of the weather - and each other.

  • Wahlgrens Värld
    Wahlgrens Värld (2016)8.5

    The artist Pernilla Wahlgren opens up the doors to her luxurious home on Lidingö and invites us to follow her crazy, funny, messy everyday life filled with love, emotions and a bit of chaos - glitter and glamour is mixed with sweatpants and family bickering.

  • Kompani Svan
    Kompani Svan (2022)8.0

    Famous Swedes sign up to be trained by Gunde Svan, Mikael Tornving and the Swedish military at boot camp. It requires a will of steel - and blood, sweat and tears.

  • Race Across the World Sweden
    Race Across the World Sweden (2024)8.0

    Five teams will undertake an impossible journey. In 40 days they will travel a 11000k secret route without airplanes, smart phones or credit cards.

  • Vägens hjältar
    Vägens hjältar (2015)7.7

    Heroes of the road gives us a unique look into how it looks on the roads of Stockholm County. We follow the people that every day works to get the traffic to flow as safely and efficiently as possible - salvagers, operators and road assistance, when they try to create order in the traffic chaos of Stockholm.

  • Tunnelbanan
    Tunnelbanan (2012)7.5

  • The Truth Will Out
    The Truth Will Out (2018)7.5

    Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.

  • Summer with the Family
    Summer with the Family (2017)6.5

    Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.

  • All Against All
    All Against All (2019)6.4

    Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson put the general knowledge of popular celebrities to the test - with a brand new twist.

  • Jeopardy!
    Jeopardy! (2023)6.2

    Well-educated, well-known Swedes compete for a pot of money that goes to charity. Mikael Tornving provides the answers and the contestants ask the questions.

  • Helt perfekt
    Helt perfekt (2018)6.0

    Johan is a friendly but self-absorbed man with a difficult inability to say no. He strives for the perfect life, but is getting involved constantly in uncomfortable situations.

  • Playa del Sol
    Playa del Sol (2007)5.8

    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.

  • Ullared
    Ullared (2009)5.3

  • Smartare än en femteklassare
    Smartare än en femteklassare (2011)5.0

    A Swedish game show based on "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"

  • Måndagsklubben
    Måndagsklubben (1996)N/A

  • Nybyggarna
    Nybyggarna (2012)N/A

    To find participants for the program Anders Öfvergård lived as a homeless in ten days, around the Greater Stockholm. He spent nights in public toilets, an illegal campsite and in a cellar. The idea for the program came when it hit him and his two colleagues from the production company Skare.

  • BIANCA
    BIANCA (2022)N/A

    Unfiltered and unexpected when Bianca Ingrosso invites Swedish and international stars to Sweden's new big talk show - BIANCA.