The Best TV Shows on SVT Play

Every SVT Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from September 2025 that includes over 20 unique series. SVT Play’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1979 to 2024. Icons of SVT Play, Pat & Mat and På spåret made their debut in 1979 and 1987, setting industry standards.

  • Trädgårdstider
    Trädgårdstider (2015)8.5

  • Allt för Sverige
    Allt för Sverige (2011)8.0

    Allt för Sverige is a Swedish reality show based on the original Norwegian format Culture Shock:Norway. The first season of Allt för Sverige premiered on Sveriges Television SVT1 on October 30, 2011, and the last episode aired on December 18, 2011. The series is about Swedish Americans who return to their Swedish roots. In the program, they give the participants more about their families but in each episode one in the group must leave the show and therefore know less about their ancestry.

  • Svenska nyheter
    Svenska nyheter (2018)8.0

    The show that explains why things are the way they are, how they should be, and jokes about politics and things you do not know are politics.

  • Detektiverna
    Detektiverna (2024)8.0

  • Pat & Mat
    Pat & Mat (1979)7.8

    Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek.

  • Mästarnas mästare
    Mästarnas mästare (2009)7.8

    A Swedish sport competition based on "Eeuwige roem" (Eternal Glory.)

  • Kenny Starfighter
    Kenny Starfighter (1997)7.5

    Kenny Starfighter fights against the evil lord Dr. Deo.

  • Thin Blue Line
    Thin Blue Line (2021)7.4

    Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.

  • Married at First Sight Sweden
    Married at First Sight Sweden (2014)7.0

    Six singles who have tried everything in the search for great love are matched by a team of experts. In front of the television cameras, they will then get married, even though they have never met before. The couple will live as husband and wife for four weeks. If love arises, the experiment has been successful, if not - they must divorce. Could an arranged marriage be the way to great love?

  • Bara Sex
    Bara Sex (2024)7.0

    The series revolves around Miriam, who is 16 years old and wants to get rid of her virginity. Preferably with someone she doesn't need to start a love relationship with. However, it doesn't turn out the way she imagined. The second season of the series revolves around Fabian and Adam, who a year after the music camp will celebrate Midsummer in Fabian's summer cottage in Blekinge

  • Eagles
    Eagles (2019)6.8

    Influencer Felicia and hockey talent Elias, children of the former NHL star Mats Kroon, move from Boston to their dad's hometown Oskarshamn. A move which doesn't turn out to be completely uncomplicated as the current hierarchies in both school and hockey teams are challenged with the new siblings' arrival.

  • På spåret
    På spåret (1987)6.5

    På 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.

  • History of the World
    History of the World (2020)6.5

    It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civilizations - from early Mesopotamia to the industrial revolution. Documentary series from various european production company’s like BBC, SVT, NRK, DR, ARTE, Covering serveral topics of war, Persons Like Cleopatra, Hitler, George Washington, etc

  • Blackwater
    Blackwater (2023)6.3

    Set in the 1970s, Blackwater tells the story of how four random people's lives converge after two tourists are found murdered in a tent near the Swedish mountain town of Blackwater.

  • Doobidoo
    Doobidoo (2005)6.2

    Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.

  • Snow Angels
    Snow Angels (2021)6.2

    Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.

  • The Class
    The Class (2017)6.0

    The Class is aimed at children in their younger teens and addresses issues and dilemmas that are relevant to them but that parents or other adults usually do not think are important. It's about small and big things that create recognition with topics that range from how the friendship is put to the test when two friends fall in love with the same girl to how it feels not to be seen. The Class addresses the challenges and problems that children face in everyday life and are largely taken from the reality of high school students, the one they do not share with adults.

  • 66th North Precinct
    66th North Precinct (2023)5.0

    Police work, boxing and family life in Lapland! Maria Pudas (Saara Kotkaniemi), a former boxing world champion, investigates crimes with her partner Samu Pajala (Karim Rapatti) in Lapland. The life of Maria's cordial and slightly chaotic family (Iina Kuustonen, Eero Saarinen, Katariina Kaitue and Heikki Ranta) changes when Maria's father Esko has a seizure and it is revealed that he has debts of 500,000 euros. In order to save her family, Maria decides to return to the ring once more, and to resolve the situation, only victory matters.

  • Up4noise
    Up4noise (2020)4.0

    The four friends, Leo, Iggy, Sam and Alex, transform overnight into a successful boy band. But what happens to their friendship when they get their dreams fulfilled and celebrity puts their relationships to the test?

  • Svenska tv-historier
    Svenska tv-historier (2015)N/A

    Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.