''Nya tider'' () is a Swedish

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which was broadcast on TV4. It began after ''

Skilda världar ''Skilda världar'' (''Worlds Apart'') is a Swedish soap opera originally airing from 1996 to 2002 about two families in Stockholm and their friends. One of the two families is rich and the other poor and Daniel and Sandra from the two families f ...

'' became a one-episode-a-week show. The show premiered in 1999 and got good ratings the first season, but they soon dropped. Broadcast was moved to just being an episode a week on Sundays, but this did not increase viewership; ''Nya tider'' never enjoyed the same viewership as ''Skilda världar''. It was cancelled in 2006. The show's cast included

Rebecca Ferguson Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress. Ferguson began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera ''Nya tider'' and made her motion picture acting debut in 2004 with the Swedish slash ...

as Anna Gripenhielm (1999–2001). In 2000 TV4 ran the reality show '' Jakten på Billie Jo'' to pick an actress to play the new villain, Billie Jo. American Alexandra Sapot won the role.

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1990s Swedish television series 1999 Swedish television series debuts 2000s Swedish television series 2006 Swedish television series endings Swedish television soap operas Swedish-language television shows TV4 (Sweden) original programming {{sweden-tv-prog-stub