Kanal 5

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**Kanal 5** is a Swedish television channel that was launched in 1989. It is owned by the media corporation SBS Discovery Media, changing its ownership from ProSiebenSat.1 Media in April 2013.

After a troublesome 1990s, **Kanal 5** seemed to be launched new strategies in the early 2000s (decade) that established it as a popular entertainment channel targeting young people. The channel's slogan is "Roligare TV" ("More Entertaining TV") and it only broadcasts entertainment, such as series, movies, reality series and infotainment documentaries. In 2006, the channel was the most popular channel among Swedes aged 15–24.

## History

On 8 March 1989, businessman Matts Carlgren announced that he intended to start a new commercial television channel, as Jan Stenbeck had done with TV3. The channel was called **Nordic Channel** and launched on 27 March 1989.

The channel made heavy losses during its first years. In 1991, it was sold to Scandinavian Broadcasting System, headed by Harry E. Sloan, who had already bought Kanal 2 in Copenhagen and TV Norge in Norway. He renamed the channel **TV5**, but the French language TV5 complained and the channel had to be called **TV5 Nordic**. This was still in the early years of cable television and French TV5 still had widespread distribution in Swedish cable networks. TV5 Nordic finally had to drop its name in 1994, and became known as **Femman** ("The Five"). On 4 February 1996, the channel was named **Kanal 5**.

The Swedish version of *Big Brother* was launched in 2000 and ran for six seasons. Kanal 5 also had the rights for the American sitcom *Friends*. The last episode was broadcast on 15 December 2004, and attracted 965,000 viewers, one of the highest rated programmes in the channel's history. Kanal 5 is also involved in broadcasting the Olympic Games alongside sister channel Eurosport starting with PyeongChang 2018.

## Programming

### Swedish shows

* 100 höjdare
* Big Brother Sverige
* Boston Tea Party
* Café Bärs
* Ett herrans liv
* Fråga Olle
* Grattis världen
* High Chaparall
* Oumi
* Outsiders
* Partaj
* Roomservice
* So You Think You Can Dance Sweden
* Vakna med The Voice
* Veckans nyheter
* Welcome to Sweden

### Imported series, miniseries and children's shows

* 7th Heaven
* Airline
* Aliens in America
* America's Funniest Home Videos
* Balls of Steel
* Battlestar Galactica
* Beyond the Break
* Body of Proof
* Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed
* Brothers & Sisters
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Charmed
* Cold Case
* Cougar Town
* Criminal Minds
* Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour
* CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
* CSI: Miami
* CSI: NY
* Denver, the Last Dinosaur
* Desperate Housewives
* Diagnosis: Murder
* Dirty Sexy Money
* Ellen
* Eleventh Hour
* ER
* Everwood
* Extreme Makeover
* Falcon Crest
* Fashion House
* Flashpoint
* Footballers' Wives
* Friday Night Lights
* Frasier
* Freddie
* Friends
* Fringe
* Full House
* Gary Unmarried
* GCB
* Gilmore Girls
* Gossip Girl
* Greek
* Grey's Anatomy
* Happy Endings
* Hart of Dixie
* Hellcats
* High School Reunion
* Home and Away
* How to Get Away with Murder
* Human Target
* Invasion
* Jail
* Jerseylicious
* Jimmy Kimmel Live!
* Joey
* Justice
* Kevin Hill
* Keeping Up with the Kardashians
* Kim Possible
* Kyle XY
* Ladette to Lady
* Las Vegas
* Last Man Standing
* Law & Order: Criminal Intent
* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
* Law & Order: Trial by Jury
* Lewis
* Live from Abbey Road
* Lizzie McGuire
* MacGyver
* Mad Men
* Magnum, P.I.
* McLeod's Daughters
* Mike & Molly
* Missing
* Mr. Bean
* Nikita
* Nip/Tuck
* No Ordinary Family
* Off the Map
* Oggy and the Cockroaches
* Once Upon a Time
* One Tree Hill
* Pineapple Dance Studios
* Prime Suspect
* Privileged
* Providence
* Psych
* Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
* Reaper
* Rizzoli & Isles
* Rome
* Rules of Engagement
* Sabrina the Teenage Witch
* Saturday Night Live
* Secret Diary of a Call Girl
* Seinfeld
* Shear Genius
* Skins
* Sonny with a Chance
* Supernatural
* The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* The Bachelor
* The Bachelorette
* The Big Bang Theory
* The Biggest Loser
* The Biggest Loser Australia
* The Buried Life
* The Catherine Tate Show
* The Cleveland Show
* The Ellen DeGeneres Show
* The F Word
* The Forgotten
* The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
* The Jay Leno Show
* The Life & Times of Tim
* The Middle
* The New Adventures of Old Christine
* The O.C.
* The Office
* The Real Housewives
* The River
* The Starter Wife
* The War at Home
* The X-Files
* Third Watch
* Top Gear
* Traveler
* Trinny & Susannah Undress...
* Two and a Half Men
* Ugly Betty
* What Not to Wear
* Wipeout
* Wizards of Waverly Place