Häxan Surtant
Häxan Surtant (The Sour-Hag Witch), also called "Världens suraste och elakaste häxa" ("The Sulkiest and Meanest Witch in the World"), is a Swedish fictional character who appears on SVT. Four TV series about Häxan Surtant have been broadcast and all of them are directed and written by Carl Englén. The narrator (called "Pratgubben"), who always appears, is Sven Björklund. On 28 August 2009 Häxan Surtant received the Kristallen Award for being "the 2009 best children's TV program". About the TV series. Häxan Surtant. This TV series was broadcast in the 2004/2005 "Jullovsmorgon"s "Jonas jullov" and had  six episodes. Every morning Häxan Surtant stops a young prince going to kindergarten who lives in an apartment near Häxan Surtant's. She asks him what he'll do at kindergarten and in one episode he answers "Spela fotboll" ("Play football"). Then Häxan also wants to play football and goes out to play it, but it doesn't go as she planned and she becomes very angry, so she conjures away everything which is relevant to football. When the prince comes home from kindergarten he and the princess (his bigger sister) watch the TV program "Sagonytt" ("Story News") where they  inform that something has been conjured away, for example footballs. The boy and his sister know Häxan did it so they tell her to conjure it back and play with them so she understands that playing football can be fun and isn't as bad as she thought. In the end Häxan always becomes angry anyway; she listens to what the prince and the princess say through the walls: Aktiebolaget Häxan Surtant. This TV series was broadcast as "Jullovsmorgon" 2006/2007 in 15 episodes. Häxan Surtant has nothing to do. She wants to work but hates co-workers, so she works  alone for herself in her newly founded company Aktiebolaget Häxan Surtant (The Häxan Surtant Joint-stock company), without knowing just what the company should do. Every day, she arranges something random for the display window without reason, a pizza box in this case. She then hopes that no one will enter. Trollet Trygve happens to pass the shop every day and upon seeing the pizza box decides to enter. Trollet Trygve walks up to Häxan and says that he saw a pizza box by the window, so is it maybe possible that this is a pizzeria? Häxan tells him to  come back at afternoon to pick up his order. She then goes outside to find someone (Riddaren Ragnar in this episode) who can help her make the pizza. This scenario happens in each episode but with different goods. In the pizza episode, the pizza was finished long before afternoon, so she ate it while it was warm. Then when she realized that she does not have the pizza for Trollet Trygve as she promised, she became so angry, that she conjured away every pizza in the world. The TV program "Sagonytt" reporter Älvan Ellen comes to the shop and tells  Häxan that if the things have disappeared, she can't do something "bad" with the things. Häxan understands that she must make the things that have disappeared come back. After conjuring back all pizza she then realizes that she must fix pizza before Trollet returns for his order. Depending on the episode, Häxan often goes away to another place to get the thing done. She then returns to her shop just before Trollet Trygve arrives, upon Trygve's arrival he asks Häxan how much it'll cost, which she replies with "12 000 kronor". Häxan Surtant och den fruktansvärda fritiden . This TV series (""The Sour-Hag Witch and The Terrible Playtime"") was broadcast first during November 2008–January 2009 and had ten episodes. Häxan Surtant hasn't paid her apartment for more than 200 years and Gråtmilda Gråvätten Greger, Häxan's landlord, wonders if she'll pay soon. Häxan doesn't want to pay and it's difficult to find a new apartment so she must move back to her mother, Halvgalna Häxmamman Harriet. But she's not so "halvgalen" ("half-mad"), she is very kind and Häxan hates that she is kind and nice and goes away. Häxan wants  to go to work but can't because it's Sunday and Sundays are work-free days. Then she gets a "play-time-hobby" (for example ceramic in the 2nd program) and goes to Sagofolkets hus ("House of Fairytale People") where Trollet Trygve works as chief and 2 other story-figures are there and have fun with the same hobby as Häxan. But suddenly it doesn't go as Häxan planned and she becomes angry and conjures away everything which has to do with the hobby. When she suddenly doesn't have some hobby, she must go home to her  mother who tells her that they said on TV that someone conjured her favourite things, so she can't go out and have fun. Häxan wants to be alone and her mother promises to leave her alone at home if she conjures the things back, so she does it. After that she sleeps in her mother's sofa until the next Sunday, she finds a new hobby, but becomes unhappy about the hobby because it didn't go as she planned. And when she sleeps, she dreams about "elaka saker man kan göra mot barn" ("mean things one can do  to children"). Häxan Surtant och landet Häxania. "The Sour-Hag Witch and the country Häxania" was broadcast first during January–March 2012 and had ten episodes. Häxan Surtant hates nice people on the streets etc. She is so angry that she goes to a forest where she believes she can be alone, but suddenly she finds two princesses and a prince who stop her from coming into their country Kojania where they live in a tree house ("koja" in Swedish). Then she also wants to start a country where she can be alone. She buys Gråtmilda Gråvätten Greger's holiday  village and pays only a banana and forces away Greger and calls the new country Häxania. But suddenly she isn't alone, she is together with Riddaren Ragnar, Fen Felicia, Trollet Trygve and Trollmor who are on holiday in the "former" holiday village. Riddaren Ragnar says that they may stay in Häxania because they are citizens and citizens can't be forced away. But Häxan has an own house where she lives alone and sulk. The next day Häxan becomes angry when she wakes up and sees something "nice" so she angrily goes to the forest. She meets the children  in Kojania who say that they are doing something and then Häxan goes back to Häxania and says that the citizens of Häxania should do it too. In the final episode, Greger gets his holiday village back, but Trollet Trygve thinks it's "expensive", because Häxan Surtant says that "it costs 12,000 SEK". In the final program Kojania is also cancelled; the children say that they miss their home and are "trötta på att leka land" ("tired of playing country").