The Best TV Shows on NRK1

Every NRK1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from July 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. Icons of NRK1, Eurovision Song Contest and Åpen Post made their debut in 1956 and 1998, setting industry standards. NRK1 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1956 all the way to 2026.

  • Agent Tørr
    Agent Tørr (2026)8.3

    Retired PST officer Harrbjørn Tørr is clumsy and doesn't understand most things. Yet, he's called upon time and again to save Norway.

  • Åpen Post
    Åpen Post (1998)8.2

    Åpen Post was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program that ran on the Norwegian state channel NRK from 1998 till 2002. It was created and hosted by Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The show started in a talk show format with interviews and guests but later leaned more towards being a pure sketch show. The show became one of Norway's most popular TV productions though it was the center of criticism due to controversial episodes such as Bård Tuft Johansens "Chicken stunt", involving the then Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland. After the show was taken of the air Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen continued to created new successful NRK shows such as Uti vår hage, Team Antonsen, Tre brødre som ikke er brødre, Ut i vår hage 2 and Storbynatt.

  • Trygdekontoret talkshow
    Trygdekontoret talkshow (2009)8.0

    Trygdekontoret is a Norwegian themed talk show and debate program with Thomas Seltzer that aired on NRK 2009 - 2019.

  • Brille
    Brille (2013)8.0

    Brille is a humor-based quiz show where some of Norways best known comedians get to work on seemingly impossible tasks and questions. The answers are often as unexpected and funny as the panel's train of thought.

  • Side by Side
    Side by Side (2013)8.0

    Norwegian sitcom about life on an idyllic street in Granli Norway, where the fences are low and neighborly relations close. Here we meet the residents who struggle with life's challenges big and small, trials all of us can relate to.

  • Mesternes mester
    Mesternes mester (2009)7.5

    Retired athletes compete for the title of "Mesterens Mester".

  • TWIN
    TWIN (2019)7.5

    When a young mother is responsible for the accidental death of her husband, she persuades the dead husband's identical twin to take his identity.

  • Exit
    Exit (2019)7.4

    Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.

  • Lilyhammer
    Lilyhammer (2012)7.3

    After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.

  • Home Ground
    Home Ground (2018)7.3

    When a newly promoted football club lose their trainer just before the start of the league season, a female, Helena Mikkelsen, gets the historic chance to coach the team, even before an ambitious retired professional.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • Norsemen
    Norsemen (2016)7.2

    Norsemen is an epic and humorous drama series set in the Viking Age. The residents of an 8th-century Viking village experience political rivalry, social change and innovations that upend their culture and way of life.

  • Nytt på nytt
    Nytt på nytt (1999)7.0

    Nytt 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.

  • Ukens vinner
    Ukens vinner (2016)7.0

  • Rykter
    Rykter (2022)6.9

    Erik is forced to move to an island to get away from his past, but you don't easily run away from rumours, and a broken past.

  • Atlantic Crossing
    Atlantic Crossing (2020)6.5

    The incredible, true story of the Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha’s efforts to support her country during World War II. After a headlong flight from the Nazis, she was forced to part from her husband and cross the Atlantic Ocean to seek refuge in the United States. There, she soon found herself involved in a close relationship with the President of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • After Benjamin
    After Benjamin (2025)6.0

    Best friends Benjamin and Elias have the world at their feet. But in January 2001, something happens that changes all of Norway forever.

  • Snowfall
    Snowfall (2016)5.8

    Selma, a 9 year old girl who lost her parents in an accident, is now living with Ruth, a quite strict neighbour who was just supposed to temporarily look after Selma and her dog Casper.

  • Skavlan
    Skavlan (2009)5.0

    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."

  • Kø
    (2020)N/A