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The Best TV Shows on MTV3

Every MTV3 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of January 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of MTV3’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Ruusun aika and Gladiaattorit represent the pinnacle of MTV3’s programming, launching in 1990 and 1993. Across the timeline from 1990 to 2025, MTV3 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Pelimies
    Pelimies (2016)8.0

  • The Joulukalenteri
    The Joulukalenteri (1997)7.7

    The Joulukalenteri was a 1997 Finnish television miniseries produced by MTV3 that was broadcast again in 1998. It was based on the Danish series The Julekalender from 1991. A Norwegian version was made in 1994. The series came out in December 1997 with one episode per day, concluding on Christmas Eve. The original concept and script of the series, as well as its numerous songs came from the Danish trio of De Nattergale. The Finnish adaptation was directed by Jukka Virtanen and starred Seppo Korjus, Kari Lehtomäki, Raimo Smedberg and Jukka Virtanen. In December 2007 there was a rerun on Subtv and now a DVD and a CD which contains the songs played in the series, can be bought on a special web-site.

  • Roba
    Roba (2012)7.6

    A new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the Venla award for the best drama series in 2013.

  • Ruusun aika
    Ruusun aika (1990)7.5

  • Helsingin herra
    Helsingin herra (2012)7.5

  • Vintiöt
    Vintiöt (1994)7.0

    Vintiöt is a Finnish television comedy and sketch series that ran on the MTV3 channel beginning in 1994.

  • Trabant Express
    Trabant Express (1997)7.0

  • MasterChef Finland
    MasterChef Finland (2011)7.0

    MasterChef Suomi sees amateur chefs compete against each other in different culinary challenges for the honourable title of MasterChef!

  • Taskmaster Finland
    Taskmaster Finland (2020)6.3

    In this Finnish version of popular British format "Taskmaster," Jaakko Saariluoma will be seen in the role of Taskmaster, with Pilvi Hämäläinen as his right hand. They will be judging the stars competing as they explore the limits of their insight in a variety of tasks that require intelligence, skill, and wit. Guests will be visiting the studio and joining the fun.

  • Hotel Swan Helsinki
    Hotel Swan Helsinki (2020)6.0

    A hotel manager of the brand-new Hotel Helsinki, is found dead one day before the opening festivities, leaving behind him a suicide note.

  • Secret Lives
    Secret Lives (1999)4.8

    Salatut elämät (Secret Lives) is a Finnish television soap opera that premiered on MTV3 on 25 January 1999. The series' storylines follow the daily lives of several families who live in the same apartment block in Helsinki.

  • Putous
    Putous (2010)4.8

    Finnish sketch comedy television show.

  • Freezing Embrace
    Freezing Embrace (2021)4.7

    Commissioner Antti Hautalehto is faced with a complicated case when young men start drowning in the small Finnish town of Borg. Almost every week a new body is found in the river, and soon Hautalehto has reason to distrust his own police colleagues.

  • Easy Living
    Easy Living (2009)4.5

    Tapio, as family man is deep in debt and married to a financially irresponsible woman he cannot control. To avoid disaster, he starts doing questionable jobs for a career criminal.

  • Gladiaattorit
    Gladiaattorit (1993)3.5

    A Finnish reality competition that matches amateur athletes against each other and the show's own "gladiators" in contests of strength, agility, and endurance.

  • Tanssii tähtien kanssa
    Tanssii tähtien kanssa (2006)2.0

    Tanssii tähtien kanssa is a Finnish version of the British BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing. The show has run on MTV3 since March 3, 2006, on Sunday evenings. The sixteenth season will be aired in the fall of 2023. The show was originally hosted by Marco Bjurström and Ella Kanninen. Ella Kanninen left the show after the second season and was replaced by model and Season 2 contestant Vanessa Kurri. In 2009, Kurri was replaced by Vappu Pimiä after only one season. Marco Bjurstöm left the series after Season 4 and Mikko Leppilampi took over as host. Ella Kanninen returned to host the seventh season due to Pimiä's maternity leave; Pimiä will return to host the eight season with Leppilampi. From 2022 Pimiä was joined by Ernest Lawson. The series' title is a pun on the title of the film Dances with Wolves, Tanssii susien kanssa.

  • The Look of a Killer
    The Look of a Killer (2011)N/A

    In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one.

  • Pitääkö olla huolissaan?
    Pitääkö olla huolissaan? (2016)N/A

  • Rantabaari
    Rantabaari (2019)N/A

  • Illallinen kansallismaisemassa
    Illallinen kansallismaisemassa (2025)N/A