The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD), which is likely to pick up major gains in Sunday’s election, has announced that it will boycott broadcaster SVT for the station’s controversial decision to weigh in on opinions aired in a Friday night debate.
Police on Saturday detained two Swedish TV journalists in the sensitive Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakir in
southeastern Turkey after they filmed near a military zone, a local news agency reported.
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen has described Donald Trump as an embarrassment to the United States, saying the Republican presidential candidate is a demagogue with simple solutions.
Swedish parents have complained after they turned on their television and sat down with their kids… only to watch a puppet character use a condom to make the Scottish delicacy haggis.
Swedish public television has been forced to apologize after it broadcast digitally constructed images of a man and woman who were rather more, er, well-equipped, than your average Swede.
UPDATED: A rapping and singing children's television presenter and four dancing tampons feature in a new video designed to teach Swedish children to celebrate menstruation.
A Swedish newsreader has apologized after he referred to immigrants as “kebab technicians” in a rehearsal shoot that went viral in Sweden after it was accidentally beamed out to viewers.
Sweden's public broadcaster SVT has apologized to parents after it accidentally sent an SMS to 60 children which included a link to a pornographic site.
The English version of a Swedish children’s cartoon featuring dancing genitals that went viral last month, is on track for a Valentine’s Day release, its composer has told The Local.
An English version of a viral Swedish children's cartoon featuring dancing genitals, is set to be released next month, its composer Johan Holmström has told The Local.
Sweden has officially declared its interest in staging the 2022 Winter Olympics in Stockholm after lodging a formal bid to bring Olympic sport back to the country for the first time since 1912.
The Olympic flame could return to Sweden for the first time in over a century with Stockholm mulling over a bid to host the 2022 Winter and Paralympic games.
Swedish state broadcaster Sveriges Television and TV4 will not be able to broadcast events from the Sochi Winter Olympics in February after failing to reach an agreement with rights holder MTG.
A Texas cowboy, a garbage man from Wisconsin, and a Hollywood matchmaker are just three of the ten unique Americans hoping to unearth their Swedish roots in the third season of Allt för Sverige.
A normally staid Swedish newscaster found herself overcome with the giggles on live television following a segment featuring Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary trying to impersonate a ghost.
A Catholic priest and several angry viewers have attacked Swedish state broadcaster SVT, claiming its annual Christmas television special promotes occultism.
Moonshine, baked frogs and perfumed swans. A new Swedish television serves up the best culinary experiences of generations past. The Local catches up with host Lotta Lundgren to find out more.
With a second season of Swedish reality television show "Allt för Sverige" set to start on Sunday, The Local catches up with two of the Swedish-American contestants who return to Sweden to explore their families' past.
Sweden's plan to replace licence fees with an income-based tax to fund public broadcasters has been put on ice, according to the ministry of culture, which says that a more thorough analysis into the scheme needs to be carried out.
Sweden's plan to replace licence fees with an income-based tax to fund public broadcasters has drawn criticism from public radio and television officials.
Just two weeks after US company Netflix announced plans to expand to the Nordic countries, TV-hit maker HBO on Thursday revealed plans to launch an internet-streaming service in the region later this year.
As Sweden prepares for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, The Local's Salomon Rogberg asks some of the country's top sports journalists what fans can expect from its athletes.
A Swedish TV-host caused a stir during Sweden's first game of the Euro 2012 football tournament when she sported the same hairstyle as Ukraine's jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in what she later labelled as an act of support.
