På Minuten
Encyclopedia
På Minuten is a radio entertainment program in Sweden
similar to BBC's Just a Minute
. It is broadcast in Sveriges Radio
P1
Saturdays at 3:03 pm in front of a live audience. The taping is often located at Sveriges Radio, but sometimes the taping is done at Stockholm City Theatre's Soppteaterscen.
Just a Minute that had started just two years earlier. It was first broadcast in Malmö, Sweden with Herbert Söderström as host and a panel with Ulla Akselson
, Agneta Prytz
, Lasse Holmqvist and Per-Henry Richter.
On April 15, 1969, the production was moved to Stockholm
, Sweden, Ursula Richter was made producer and Lennart Swahn took over as host. The panel was first made up with Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson, Stig Järrel
and Olle Pahlin but it soon got the classical set of Margaretha Krook
, Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson and Stig Järrel
. Some of the reserves was Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt
, Åke Strömmer and Hasse Alfredson. Hasse Alfredson was later made regular member of the panel after Catrin Westerlunds passing 1982.
April 5 - June 14, 1975 six programs was made for television, as a part of the program Nöjeshallen.
After being in hibernation
since 1988 the program was brought to life by Erik Blix 1994 with the title 60 sekunder (English: 60 seconds) before Ingvar Storm took over the role as host 1995 and named it På Minuten again. His first panel was made up with Maja Aase, Fredrik Lindström
, Carina Lidbom
and Ulf Larsson
. In the beginning, Ingvar Storm was also the producer of the show, but after some time Conny Sandberg took over that role.
At the end of the program the participant who collected to the highest score is announced as the winner. The price is often something edible.
Removed rule:
Rules that have been added later:
A combination of hesitation and diversification of the subject was introduced by Moltas Eriksson as homoeopathic dilution - a lot of words that doesn't say anything. Something like what Hans Rosenfeldt today calls "stacking of words without any meaning within itself".
is scorekeeping, timekeeping, slam the gong
when the minute is over and to announce the winner.
Producer Bibi Rödöö has been the Supreme Referee since 2004.
had to offer in tin cans she started to bring home prices from travels she'd been on. After that the audience started to bring prizes of their own. Mostly local specialities like truffle from Gotland
, chanterelle
from Ludvika
or fruitloaf with homemade marmalade. After that listeners abroad started to send prices. Some of them were avocado crème
from Israel
, grasshopper
lollipop
s from USA, arctic char
from Canada
and a meal for two from a Japan
ese arctic
research station.
But there have not only been edible prizes. Sometimes there have been musical teachers that have offered their services under the motto "Learn how to play a instrument under an hour". The contestants have never been able to choose which instrument they want to learn how to play, as this is decided before the show starts and the price is announced. The winner usually plays a small musical piece with the said instrument in the beginning of the program next time it is being recorded.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
similar to BBC's Just a Minute
Just a Minute
Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003....
. It is broadcast in Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB – Swedish Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with...
P1
P1
- Computing, electronics and telecommunications :* Peer 1, Internet hosting provider* DSC-P1, a 2000 Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model* Sony Ericsson P1, a UIQ 3 smartphone* Packet One, the first company to launch WiMAX service in Southeast Asia- Media :...
Saturdays at 3:03 pm in front of a live audience. The taping is often located at Sveriges Radio, but sometimes the taping is done at Stockholm City Theatre's Soppteaterscen.
History
På Minuten was first broadcast February 18, 1969. It was the Swedish version of BBC'sBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Just a Minute that had started just two years earlier. It was first broadcast in Malmö, Sweden with Herbert Söderström as host and a panel with Ulla Akselson
Ulla Akselson
Ulla Mariana Akselson, , also known as Ulla Axelsson, was a Swedish actress.-External links:*...
, Agneta Prytz
Agneta Prytz
Agneta Prytz was a Swedish movie and stage actress who appeared in thirty-six films over the course of her career. Prytz was the wife of Swedish director, Gösta Folke, who died in April 2008....
, Lasse Holmqvist and Per-Henry Richter.
On April 15, 1969, the production was moved to Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden, Ursula Richter was made producer and Lennart Swahn took over as host. The panel was first made up with Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson, Stig Järrel
Stig Järrel
Stig Järrel was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films...
and Olle Pahlin but it soon got the classical set of Margaretha Krook
Margaretha Krook
Margaretha Krook was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.-Selected Filmography:...
, Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson and Stig Järrel
Stig Järrel
Stig Järrel was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films...
. Some of the reserves was Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt
Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt
Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt was a Swedish actor. He grew up in Kungsholmen in Stockholm, where there now is a street named after him....
, Åke Strömmer and Hasse Alfredson. Hasse Alfredson was later made regular member of the panel after Catrin Westerlunds passing 1982.
April 5 - June 14, 1975 six programs was made for television, as a part of the program Nöjeshallen.
After being in hibernation
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate. Hibernating animals conserve food, especially during winter when food supplies are limited, tapping energy reserves, body fat, at a slow rate...
since 1988 the program was brought to life by Erik Blix 1994 with the title 60 sekunder (English: 60 seconds) before Ingvar Storm took over the role as host 1995 and named it På Minuten again. His first panel was made up with Maja Aase, Fredrik Lindström
Fredrik Lindström
Fredrik Lindström is a Swedish linguist, comedian, film director and presenter.In the 2000s, Lindström has become a household name in Sweden through his documentary series Värsta språket about the Swedish language on Sveriges Television...
, Carina Lidbom
Carina Lidbom
Solbritt Carina Lidbom is a Swedish actress and comedian.-Filmography:*1988 - S.O.S. – En segelsällskapsresa*1989 - Det var då.....
and Ulf Larsson
Ulf Larsson
Ulf Sigfrid Larsson , better known as Uffe Larsson, was a Swedish actor, revue artist, comedian and stage director....
. In the beginning, Ingvar Storm was also the producer of the show, but after some time Conny Sandberg took over that role.
The Program
The program has the form of a competition where someone in the panel shall try to speak a whole minute within a certain subject without breaking the rules. If someone of the opponents thinks they have heard something that break the rules they tell this through a sounding signal. The host then decide if the protest shall be accepted or rejected. If the protest get accepted the one who interrupted get the chance to speak the remaining seconds of the minute. In it is uncertain that the one of the rules have been broken the host can conform to "People's Court", i.e. the audience. Here the audience shall shout "Yes" to the participator who they think is right. The participator who get the strongest acclamation get the chance to speak the remaining of the minute.At the end of the program the participant who collected to the highest score is announced as the winner. The price is often something edible.
Rules
There are three ground rules which the participants must follow:- Not to hesitate or punt.
- Not to repeat him- or herself.
- Not to leave the subject.
Removed rule:
- Factual error.
Rules that have been added later:
- Not to leave the premises. (Jokingly added by Lennart Swahn)
- Not to steal anyone's approach to the subject.
- Not to fraying at the edges (i.e. start snickering or laughing)
A combination of hesitation and diversification of the subject was introduced by Moltas Eriksson as homoeopathic dilution - a lot of words that doesn't say anything. Something like what Hans Rosenfeldt today calls "stacking of words without any meaning within itself".
Scoring
- 1 point is given if a participant manage to take over the subject or if the protest against oneself is rejected.
- 2 points is given if oneself manage to end the minute.
- 3 points is given if oneself manage to speak the whole minute without interruptions.
Supreme Referee
The function of the Supreme RefereeReferee
A referee is the person of authority, in a variety of sports, who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view and making on the fly decisions that enforce the rules of the sport...
is scorekeeping, timekeeping, slam the gong
Gong
A gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet....
when the minute is over and to announce the winner.
Producer Bibi Rödöö has been the Supreme Referee since 2004.
Prizes
Prizes had not been a part of På Minuten until Bibi Röddö joined in 2004. The first prizes were tin cans containing exotic food. Some of them were so exotic that the contestants did their most to let someone else win. After Bibi Rödöö gone through most of what StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
had to offer in tin cans she started to bring home prices from travels she'd been on. After that the audience started to bring prizes of their own. Mostly local specialities like truffle from Gotland
Gotland
Gotland is a county, province, municipality and diocese of Sweden; it is Sweden's largest island and the largest island in the Baltic Sea. At 3,140 square kilometers in area, the region makes up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area...
, chanterelle
Chanterelle
Cantharellus cibarius, commonly known as the chanterelle, golden chanterelle or girolle, is a fungus. It is probably the best known species of the genus Cantharellus, if not the entire family of Cantharellaceae. It is orange or yellow, meaty and funnel-shaped...
from Ludvika
Ludvika
Ludvika is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Ludvika Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 14,018 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:The conurbation of Ludvika extends over the border of Smedjebacken Municipality, where about 400 inhabitants live....
or fruitloaf with homemade marmalade. After that listeners abroad started to send prices. Some of them were avocado crème
Avocado
The avocado is a tree native to Central Mexico, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel...
from Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, grasshopper
Grasshopper
The grasshopper is an insect of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish it from bush crickets or katydids, it is sometimes referred to as the short-horned grasshopper...
lollipop
Lollipop
A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. They are available in many flavors and shapes.- Types :Lollipops are available in a number of colors and...
s from USA, arctic char
Arctic char
Arctic char or Arctic charr is both a freshwater and saltwater fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters. No other freshwater fish is found as far north. It is the only species of fish in Lake Hazen, on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic...
from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and a meal for two from a Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese arctic
Arctic
The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
research station.
But there have not only been edible prizes. Sometimes there have been musical teachers that have offered their services under the motto "Learn how to play a instrument under an hour". The contestants have never been able to choose which instrument they want to learn how to play, as this is decided before the show starts and the price is announced. The winner usually plays a small musical piece with the said instrument in the beginning of the program next time it is being recorded.
Differences from Just a Minute
The Swedish program has a slightly different interpretation of rules than the British.- In Just a Minute the participants are allowed to repeat the same word in different forms like "apple" and "apples", something the participants aren't allowed to do in På Minuten.
- In Just a Minute the participants are allowed to repeat the words in the subject. If the subject contains the word "apple" the participant can say "apple" as many time the participant wants. In På Minuten the participant is only allowed to say a word once until he or she gets interrupted or finish the minute.
- In Just a Minute the participants are not allowed to repeat a word for the whole minute, whereas in På minuten the participants are allowed to use the same words as many times they want within the same minute if they have been interrupted in between.
- In Just a Minute the rule deviation from the subject is more strict than in På Minuten. It is often not allowed in Just a Minute to deviate from the truth, logic thinking or the rules of the English language.
- The rule "Not to steal anyone's approach to the subject." does not exist in Just a Minute.