
Writing
Jan Guillou
Born
1944-01-17 (82)
Place of birth
Södertälje, Stockholm County, Sweden
Known for
Writing
Credits
43 titles
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget (Pirate P…
Known for
6.4Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson put the general knowledge of popular celebrities to the test - with a brand new twist.
All Against All
2019
6.7På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.
På spåret
1987
5.0Skavlan 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."
Skavlan
2009
7.0Nytt 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 Bård Tufte Johansen with permanent panelists Kristine Grændsen and Johan Golden. Grændsen replaced Isalill Simonsen Kolpus from the spring of 2026. 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.
Nytt på nytt
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hellenius Hörna
2010
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Min sanning
2012
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
NRDocumentary about the author Jan Myrdal and his strange friendship with Lasse Diding, founder of the Jan Myrdal Society.
In Anticipation of Jan Myrdal's Death
2021
5.5At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Året var 1973
2023
NRAbout the IB affair 1973. Two young journalists, Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou, reveal an unknown spy organization. They themselves are accused of espionage and have to pay a high price for their whistle-blowing.
IB - hemligare än Säpo
2020
NRIn Götene, they wanted to ride the wave of Arn fever and attract visitors from across the country. The solution was a gigantic medieval theme park – an investment that soon turned into an expensive lesson. Hundreds of millions in taxpayer money vanished, the plans collapsed, and the municipality was left with empty buildings.
Medeltidens värld - Arn-fiaskot i Götene
2025
2010s · 3 titles
7.3Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
2019
7.6Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
Palme
2012
5.0The whole story of how the books about Martin Beck came to be is told here. It's a love story. A young couple wanted to talk about the injustices in society. Thus was born the modern detective story. It has been over 50 years since the first book in the series came out and it would only be in the fall of the age that Sjöwall Wahlöö was celebrated as the creator of the entire modern detective genre.
Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott
2016
2000s · 3 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Stig Bergling - I fiendens tjänst
2009
7.8A documentary dealing with the publisher Ebbe Carlsson's decision to start his own investigation on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
Ebbe - The Movie: Mannen, Myten, Affären
2009
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Varför erkände dom?
2008
Series credits
6.4Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson put the general knowledge of popular celebrities to the test - with a brand new twist.
All Against All
2019
6.7På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.
På spåret
1987
5.0Skavlan 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."
Skavlan
2009
7.0Nytt 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 Bård Tufte Johansen with permanent panelists Kristine Grændsen and Johan Golden. Grændsen replaced Isalill Simonsen Kolpus from the spring of 2026. 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.
Nytt på nytt
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hellenius Hörna
2010
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Min sanning
2012
8.2The program follows the two presenters as they "live" in a certain time period. They dress up in period accurate clothes, and live life as you would in that certain time period with a large emphasis on the food. Each program features a guest chef who prepares period accurate food.
Historieätarna
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sveriges bästa
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Babben & Co
2007
9.5Literature talkshow with Jessika Gedin.
Babel
2014
10.0Documentary about Leif GW Persson, told by Jens Lind. The story spans over seven decades, from Leifs birth at the end of world war II in march 1945, until now when the working class kid has become one of Swedens most appreciated writers and tv-personalities.
Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa
2015
NRSchulman show is a web-TV program on aftonbladet.se which premiered 30 October 2009. It is structured as a talk show in which TV host Alex Schulman talks with recurrent Ann Söderlund and Markus Larsson and usually a guest in each program. The topics are current entertainment events. Each program has had between 350,000 and 500,000 viewers, making it the Swedish breakthrough for Web TV.
Schulman Show
2009
4.2Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.
Talismanen
2003
7.5Boston Tea Party is a Swedish infotainment television program is broadcast on Kanal 5 hosted by Fredrik Wikingsson and Filip Hammar.
Boston Tea Party
2007
7.5The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.
Kvällspressen
1992
8.0Ett 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.
Ett herrans liv
2006
10.0Over the course of eight episodes, the famed Norwegian musician and performer Kristopher Schau sets out to commit all the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth. By using himself as his chief researcher’s tool, Schau holds a mirror to modern society and asks: What does the concept of religious dogma and the Seven Deadly Sins mean in a largely secularized world?
The 7 Deadly Sins
2007
NRIn the four-episode series, Jan Guillou, Leif GW Persson and Pär Lorentzon engaged in hunting, fishing and other classically "male activities". The series can be described as a social program in a hunting environment, at a red cabin.
Grabbarna på Fagerhult
1990
7.040 years ago, a woman was found dismembered under a highway in Stockholm. It was the beginning of what would become Sweden's strangest and most controversial legal process: the Catrine da Costa case. The two doctors Teet Härm and Thomas Allgén were identified as guilty of the dismemberment. But how did the legal system actually come to the conclusion that they were guilty?
Dokument inifrån: Det svenska styckmordet
2024
10.0Leif Silbersky has been a defender in many of Sweden's most media-acclaimed trials over the past fifty years. And in this three-part documentary, he tells himself about how it has been.
Silbersky
2019
10.0Birger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society
Korset
1985
NRThe unlikely story of Sweden's most controversial big business owner, who in the 1970s steered the Kinnevik family business from traditional industry to becoming a giant in telephony and media.
Stenbeck
2013
NRAlongside the story of forbidden love and sibling rivalry, Vår tid är nu tells the story of the change in Swedish society between 1945 and 1971. The actors meet people who inspired the series. Charlie Gustafsson meets restaurateur Leif Mannerström who knew Tore Wretman, who inspired the kitchen boy Calle. Hedda Stiernstedt delves into the life of a housewife in the 1940s and 1950s with author Kristina Sandberg and researcher Yvonne Hirdman. Josefin Neldén meets Ulrika Knutson.
Berättelsen bakom Vår tid är nu
2019
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Agenternas världskrig - Jan Guillou berättar
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arns rike
2004
NRWith the IB revelation in the 70s, Jan Guillou made the Swedish scoop of the century, was imprisoned for his words and wrote himself into Swedish press history. The program follows his trajectory from scandalous articles in men's magazines to his heyday as an investigative journalist, program host and strong voice in the social debate. Journalist Jan Guillou is portrayed by Kristina Hedberg. Participants also do i.a. former partner Marina Stagh, half-sister Pia Hansén, colleagues Staffan Heimerson, Britt-Marie Mattsson, Peter Bratt and Leif GW Persson.
Den överlägsne journalisten
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Häxornas tid
2005
Behind the camera
8.5Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.
Genombrottet
1981
7.3Carl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American congressional hearing) to answer questions about a spy war between Sweden and the Soviet Union.
The Interrogation
1989
6.4Carl Hamilton is called to Moscow to testify on behalf of a GRU officer who is charged with treason against the state. He has to testify that the officer has not sold information to Sweden.
Tribunal
1995


