Nils Gunnar Lie is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 television personality.

He hails from Øystese

Øystese

Øystese is a village located at the Hardangerfjord in Kvam municipality, Norway, about 7 kilometres east of Norheimsund. Riksvei 7 passes through. In 2004 Øystese had a population of 1641.-External links:* *...

. He started his career in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and worked in Dagsnytt

Dagsnytt

Dagsnytt is the main news programme of Norwegian radio. It is broadcast on most of the radio channels of the government-owned Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , with bulletins every hour and longer programmes four times a day...

and as a news anchor in Dagsrevyen

Dagsrevyen

Dagsrevyen is the daily evening news programme for the Norwegian television channel NRK1, the main channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , broadcast at 7 pm. In 2007, the programme started airing simultaneously on NRK's dedicated news channel NRK2, but this arrangement ended that same...

. In 1989 he was awarded the Se og Hør readers' TV personality of the year award.

In 1992 he was hired in the new television channel TV 2

TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

. From 1992 to late 1997 he hosted about 180 editions of the debate program Holmgang. He also hosted the Norwegian version of Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

for a period, parallel to hosting Holmgang, but quit in April 1997 to concentrate on the latter program. From Holmgang he continued to TV 2-nyhetene as a news anchor.

In early 2005 he went from TV 2-nyhetene to the breakfast television

Breakfast television

Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...

 show God morgen, Norge. He became known to a new audience in 2009 through Kristian Valen

Kristian Valen

Kristian Valen is a comedian, actor, singer and songwriter originally from Stavanger, Norway. Known for an extremely wide range of comedic impressions, Valen has also pursued a serious music career; his pop music album Listen When Alone was released internationally in Europe and Asia...

's parody character "Nils Georg".