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Boston Tea Party (TV Series)
''Boston Tea Party'' is a Swedish infotainment television program is broadcast on Kanal 5 hosted by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson Lars Filip Hammar (born 26 March 1975) and Fredrik Wikingsson (born 16 August 1973), commonly known as Filip och Fredrik, are two Swedish writers, television hosts and journalists both known for their youthful, though intellectual, humor and un .... Kanal 5 (Swedish TV channel) original programming {{sweden-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infotainment
Infotainment (a portmanteau of ''information'' and ''entertainment''), also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news, is a type of media, usually television or online, that provides a combination of information and entertainment. The term may be used disparagingly to devalue infotainment or soft news subjects in favor of more serious hard news subjects. Infotainment-based websites and social media apps gained traction due to their focused publishing of infotainment content, e.g. BuzzFeed. Background The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used in September 1980 at the Joint Conference of ASLIB, the Institute of Information Scientists, and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK. The Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on comedy shows at these professional conferences between 1980 and 1990. In 1983, "infotainment" began to see more popular usage, and the infotainment style gradually began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanal 5 (Sweden)
Kanal 5 (''Channel 5'') is a Swedish television channel that was launched in 1989. It is owned by the US-based media company Warner Bros. Discovery, changing its ownership from ProSiebenSat.1 Media in April 2013. After a troublesome 1990s, Kanal 5 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 Nordic Channel Åke Wilhelmsson and Kari Storækre through production company Karissima aired in 1988 ''God Morgon Scandinavia'', a breakfast programme for Sky Channel, at the time when it was widely available on Swedish cable networks. When Sky announced that it would change its target group and started aiming at the British market, the couple bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Hammar And Fredrik Wikingsson
Lars Filip Hammar (born 26 March 1975) and Fredrik Wikingsson (born 16 August 1973), commonly known as Filip och Fredrik, are two Swedish writers, television hosts and journalists both known for their youthful, though intellectual, humor and unconventional journalism. In 2024, they released their film ''The Last Journey (2024 film), The Last Journey'', becoming the highest-grossing Swedish documentary in history, later it was selected as the Swedish entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Filip and Fredrik have produced eleven different TV shows together and are book authors. The duo founded their company "Framgångsfabriken" (The Success Factory), which started in 2001 and takes credit for their media appearances. The pair have had their sexuality questioned repeatedly by the people they interact with on camera. Although they are heterosexual, jokes about their would-be gay relationship have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
