Beat your Host! Sets Swedish Launch

MUNICH, August 22: The hit ProSieben event game show Beat your Host!, distributed by SevenOne International, will make its debut in Sweden on Kanal 5 on September 9 under the title Vem kan slå Filip och Fredrik.

The show will kick off Kanal 5’s fall season lineup, airing as a one-hour prime-time special every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for three consecutive weeks. Comedians Filip and Fredrik will appear as a team and will alternately compete against a contestant from the audience.

Jens Richter, the managing director of SevenOne International, commented: “We are extremely excited that Beat your Host! will now be the season opener for Kanal 5. Filip and Fredrik are ideal challengers for the show. Persistence and cleverness combined with humor and a quick wit are the key elements in the show. These two have it all. The combination of their will to win and the show’s powerful concept fulfill all the criteria for making Vem kan slå Filip och Fredrik a great hit in Sweden”.

Added Lars Beckung, the managing director of Kanal 5: “Beat your Host! is a perfect mixture of good entertainment, eagerness and comedy. Filip and Fredrik have a similar popularity and cult status in Sweden like Stefan Raab has in Germany. The two already present shows on Kanal 5 for many years. We are very delighted to have them now with a really big entertainment show on air.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski