The Best TV Shows on TV4

Every TV4 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Discover the best of TV4 with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for May 2026. A broadcaster of distinction, TV4 has aired more than 20 shows between 1981 and 2025. Highlighting TV4’s quality programming, The Guldbagge Awards and Robinson stand out, premiering in 1981 and 1997.

  • Sweden's Got Talent
    Sweden's Got Talent (2007)8.5

    Talang Sverige, formerly named Talang between 2007–2011, is the Swedish version of the Got Talent series show where singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support and the prize money. The show was broadcast for five seasons on TV4, between 2007–2011, before TV4 put the show on indefinite hiatus. Two years later, on June 19, 2013, TV3 announced that they had acquired the rights for the show and will re-launch the show in Spring 2014 under the name "Talang Sverige".

  • Johan Falk
    Johan Falk (2009)8.4

    When Johan Falk was 19 years old he lost his girlfriend Maria and their unborn child when Maria got hit by a car. Falk takes the accident very hard and do not even go to the funeral. He decides that crime must be fought and applies immediately to the Police Academy. The movies are, however, only about Falk as an police officer with many years of experience from the National Task Force. He often goes his own way and does not shy away from using controversial methods. This leads to that the colleagues often experience difficulties in cooperating with him and managers are forced to turn a blind eye to what he's doing.

  • Arn: The Knight Templar
    Arn: The Knight Templar (2010)7.6

    Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.

  • Masked Singer Sverige
    Masked Singer Sverige (2021)7.6

    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.

  • Taskmaster Sweden
    Taskmaster Sweden (2017)7.5

    Swedish version of Taskmaster.

  • The Sandhamn Murders
    The Sandhamn Murders (2010)7.2

    Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.

  • Mother Goose
    Mother Goose (2015)7.1

    Sonja lives a rather carefree life with her beloved family. The husband Frederick's marijuana business providing family finances a silver lining. But life is shattered and Sonja forced to play a dangerous game with both organized crime and police to protect their children. She can no longer be sure which ones are her friends and who she can trust.

  • Solsidan
    Solsidan (2010)7.0

    The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just moved to Alex's childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County. Alex tries to get Anna to enjoy herself, and at the same time spend time with his childhood friend Fredde.

  • Wallander
    Wallander (2005)6.9

    Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

  • Fallen
    Fallen (2023)6.9

    A cold case turns topical again and turns everything upside down, intertwining the lives of several people.

  • Beck
    Beck (1999)6.8

    Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.

  • Maria Wern
    Maria Wern (2008)6.8

    Crime Inspector Maria Wern returns to duty at the Police Department on the island of Gotland, and is immediately thrown into a murder investigation.

  • Rebecka Martinsson
    Rebecka Martinsson (2017)6.4

    Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

  • Robinson
    Robinson (1997)6.3

    Expedition Robinson is a Swedish reality television program in which contestants are put into survival situations, and a voting process eliminates one person each episode until a winner is determined. The format was developed in 1994 by Charlie Parsons for a United Kingdom TV production company called Planet 24, but the Swedish debut in 1997 was the first production to actually make it to television.

  • Welcome to Sweden
    Welcome to Sweden (2014)6.1

    The fish-out-of-water story of New York accountant Bruce, who falls in love with a Swedish girl named Emma and follows her to Sweden.

  • Idol
    Idol (2004)6.0

    The first season of Sweden's Idol premiered in August 2004 and continued until its grand finale on 26 November. It is a spin off of Britain's Pop Idol.

  • The Guldbagge Awards
    The Guldbagge Awards (1981)5.5

    The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

  • Parlamentet
    Parlamentet (1999)5.4

    Parlamentet is a satirical panel gameshow on on TV4, which parodies Swedish political debate. It was first broadcast in 1999 and is currently in its 23rd series. The current presenter is Anders S. Nilsson, who has hosted the show since 2004. Current team members include Babben Larsson, Robin Paulsson, Johan Rheborg and Johan Glans. Kodjo Akolor has also been featured. The program is a Swedish version of the short-run British show If I Ruled the World, which itself was as spin-off from Have I Got News For You - both produced by Hat Trick Productions. The comedians are divided into two teams, red and blue, representing traditional political colours. At the end of the show, the audience vote for the winners based on which team was funniest.

  • Paradise Hotel
    Paradise Hotel (2005)5.0

    A group of hot singles check into a luxury hotel in Mexico. Prepare for love, partying, betrayal and tears. Half a million kronor is at stake and anything can happen in paradise.

  • We Come in Peace
    We Come in Peace (2025)4.7

    A huge jellyfish-like object is seen over Stockholm and triggers global panic. Biologist Zandra Kraft realizes that it may be humanity's first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. Together with Prime Minister Moa Halmgren and crisis expert Elias Charbel, she must deal with hysteria, corruption and the threat of military intervention. In the roles we see Evin Ahmad, Fares Fares and Suzanne Reuter and others.