| Show Name: | På minuten |
| Format: | Panel game |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Language: | Swedish |
| Home Station: | P1 |
| Television: | På minuten 1975 |
| Presenter: | Herbert Söderström 1969 Lennart Swahn 1969 - 1988 Erik Blix 1994 - 1995 Ingvar Storm 1995 - 2017 Hans Rosenfeldt 2018 - present |
| Starring: | Regular panelists (1969-1988) Catrin Westerlund Moltas Eriksson Stig Järrel Olle Pahlin Margaretha Krook Reserve panelists (1969-1988) Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt Åke Strömmer Hasse Alfredson Panelists (1995-present) Election Special (2006) Election Special (2010) |
| Producer: | Ursula Richter 1969 - 1988 Ingvar Storm 1995 - ? Conny Sandberg ? - 2004 Bibi Rödöö 2004 - present |
| Rec Location: | Sveriges Radio's studio 4 |
| Scen&Quot;≫[Http://Sverigesradio.Se/Sida/Artikel.Aspx?Programid: | 1307&artikel=353581 SR |
| First Aired: | 18 February 1969 |
| Last Aired: | Present |
| Opentheme: | Jones Polka by Spike Jones |
| Website: | På Minuten.se |
| Podcast: | På Minuten Podcast |
På minuten (English lit.: On the minute meaning "within the confines of a minute") is a Swedish radio panel game similar to the BBC's Just a Minute. Recorded before a live audience, it is broadcast on Sveriges Radio P1 on Saturdays at 16.03, with a repeat the following day at 18.00. The recordings are made at Sveriges Radio, or sometimes at Stockholm City Theatre's Soppteater (café-theatre).[1]
På minuten was first broadcast on 18 February 1969. It was the Swedish version of the BBC's Just a Minute that had started two years earlier. It was first broadcast from Malmö with Herbert Söderström as host and Ulla Akselson, Agneta Prytz, Lasse Holmqvist, and Per-Henry Richter as panelists.
On 15 April 1969, production was moved to Stockholm, Ursula Richter was made producer, and Lennart Swahn took over as host. The panel originally consisted of Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson, Stig Järrel, and Olle Pahlin but it soon switched to the classic group of Margaretha Krook, Catrin Westerlund, Moltas Eriksson, and Stig Järrel. Some of the reserve panelists were Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Åke Strömmer, and Hasse Alfredson. Hasse Alfredson was later made a regular member of the panel after Catrin Westerlund died in 1982.
Between 5 April and 14 June 1975 six programs were made for television, as a part of the program Nöjeshallen.
After a six-year gap from 1988, the program was brought back by Erik Blix in 1994 with the title 60 sekunder (English: 60 seconds), before Ingvar Storm took over as the host in 1995 and changed the name back to På minuten. His first panel was made up of Maja Aase, Fredrik Lindström, Carina Lidbom, and Ulf Larsson. At the start, Ingvar Storm was also the producer of the show, but after some time Conny Sandberg took over that role.
The program takes the form of a competition where the panel members, in turn, try to talk about a certain subject for a whole minute without breaking certain rules (detailed below). If the opponents think they have heard something that goes against the rules they interrupt with an audible signal. The host then determines if the challenge will be accepted or rejected. If the challenge is rejected, the interrupted contestant gets one point and carries on. If the challenge is accepted the one who interrupted gets one point and the chance to speak for the rest of the minute. If there is uncertainty about whether or not one of the rules has been broken, the host can refer the matter to "the People's Court", i.e. the audience. First the host asks if the challenger should get the point, and after that asks the same thing regarding the interrupted contestant. The audience members answer by shouting "Yea!" when the host names the contestant that they agree with. The panelist who receives the strongest acclamation gets the chance to speak for the rest of the minute.
At the end of the program the panelist with the highest score is announced as the winner. The prize is often something edible.
There are three ground rules which the contestants must obey:[2]
Removed rule:
Rules that have been added later:
A combination of hesitation and deviation was introduced by Moltas Eriksson as "homoeopathic dilution": a term originally from the field of homeopathy but used here to signify a long, meaningless string of words – what Hans Rosenfeldt usually refers to as "a stacking of words without any meaning within itself".
The functions of the "Notarius Publicus" are scorekeeping, timekeeping, banging the gong when the minute is up, and announcing the winner.[4]
The Swedish program has a slightly different interpretation of the rules compared to the British version.