| Rederiet | |
|---|---|
 MS Birka Princess portrayed the fictional MS Freja in Rederiet | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Louise Boije af Gennäs Peter Emanuel Falck |
| Directed by | Filippa Wallström Marcelo Racana Christian Wikander Thomas Hellberg |
| Starring | Gösta Prüzelius Johannes Brost Kenneth Söderman Hans V. Engström Bert-Åke Varg Gaby Stenberg Bengt Bauler Thomas Hellberg Peter Harryson Mikael Samuelson Suzanne Reuter Per Holmberg Gösta Krantz |
| Theme music composer | Anders Neglin |
| Country of origin | Sweden |
| Original language | Swedish |
| No. of seasons | 20 |
| No. of episodes | 318 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 min |
| Original release | |
| Network | SVT |
| Release | 20 August 1992 – 18 April 2002 |
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Rederiet (High Seas or The Shipping Company) was a (318 episodes) Swedish soap opera that aired on Sveriges Television between August 1992 and April 2002.[1] The cast featured many popular and renowned Swedish actors.
The 45-minute episodes were broadcast weekly on Thursday nights on the public-service channel SVT1 and normally had between one and two million viewers. For ten years, Rederiet was the number-one rated show on Swedish television, along with the rival TV4 show Tre Kronor. The competition for viewers can be compared to that between Dynasty and Dallas.
Rederiet also gained popularity in Finland on Yle TV2, and the show was a hit in Norway too on TV2. The first season of the show was also sold to Egypt. The later seasons of the series were produced in collaboration with YLE, which led most notably to Finnish actor Åke Lindman appearing in the series. Rapper Ken Ring also appeared as an extra in the show in 1996.
Rederiet became the first TV-series in Sweden to show a kiss between two homosexual characters, the kiss scene received attention in media.[2]
On April Fools' Day 1993 SVT News announced that Mel Gibson was to play a lead role in the series. Gibson himself was interviewed and confirmed the information. It was later revealed that the whole event had been a joke.
- ^ Pelle Jacobsson (17 April 2002). "318 x Joker" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ Wallén-Widung, MInna (16 September 2017). "5 saker du kanske inte visste om Rederiet". Allas. Retrieved 2 July 2024.