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Created by The Oxymorons No. of seasons 6 Producer(s) Christer Åkerlund | 8/10 IMDb Original language(s) SwedishEnglish No. of episodes 40 Location(s) Sverige Number of seasons 6 Number of episodes 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Anders Lundin, Brian Gerard, Travis Scott McAfee, Anna Brita Östman Mohr, Shastin Corona, Guy Clark Awards International Emmy Award for best Non-Scripted Entertainment Similar Historieätarna, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, Hoff the Record, Married at First Sight Sweden, Unterm Radar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Allt för Sverige (literally Everything for Sweden, marketed in the United States as The Great Swedish Adventure) is a Swedish reality show based on the original Norwegian format The Great Norway Adventure, also called Alt for Norge. The first season of Allt för Sverige was shown on Sveriges Television SVT1 from 30 October 2011 to 18 December 2011. The series is about Swedish Americans who return to their Swedish roots. In the program, they give the participants more about their families but in each episode one in the group must leave the show and therefore know less about their ancestry.
Contents
- Allt f r sverige s song 1del 1 av 8
- Contestants
- Episodes
- Season 2 2012
- Season 3 2013
- Season 4 2014
- Christmas Special 2014
- Season 5 2015
- Season 6 2016
- US casting
- References
The host of the program is Anders Lundin.
Allt f r sverige s song 1del 1 av 8
Contestants
Episodes
Winner: Brian Gerard
In the eighth and final episode, filmed on the island of Utö and broadcast December 18, 2011, the Kentucky preacher Brian Gerard, New York City designer Guy Clark, Colorado student Kirstin Highfield and Florida police officer Shastin Corona participated in the final. Kirstin and Shastin ended up at 3rd and 4th place respectively, leaving Brian and Guy competing for 1st place. In the end it was Brian who won by less than 10 seconds in the final. Brian got to meet the Swedish part of his family at the end of the last show.
Season 2 (2012)
Season two began airing on 28 October 2012 at 8:00 PM on SVT1.
Contestants
Episodes
Winner: Anna Brita Östman Mohr won the show and met her relatives from the High Coast valley in central Sweden.
Season 3 (2013)
The third season of Allt För Sverige was filmed during the month of June 2013, and was being broadcast in Sweden during the autumn of 2013.
Contestants
Episodes
The winner of Allt för Sverige season 3 was Lori Ferguson, who met her relatives from Skåne in southern Sweden.
Season 4 (2014)
Season four was filmed over summer 2014.
Contestants
Episodes
The winner of season four was John Olson who met 120 relatives in Trollhättan, Västergötland. Katie Malik, George Strid and Courtney Schlagel came in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places, respectively.
Christmas Special 2014
In the Christmas special four Americans from previous seasons visit the town of Gällivare in northern Sweden in winter, but without having to compete for a single prize. Guy Clark (Season 1), Rebecca Redner (Season 3), Katie Malik (Season 4), and Nick Jones (Season 4) are able to meet with Swedish relatives as well as sample Swedish Christmas traditions. Anders Lundin hosts.
Season 5 (2015)
Season five casting calls opened in December 2014. It was filmed in Sweden over the summer of 2015.
Contestants
Episodes
The winner of season five was John Winscher, who met his relatives on the island of Tjörn, Västra Götaland. Jamie Lystra, Beverly and Charles Wassberg, and Karen Berg-Roylance came in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, respectively.
Season 6 (2016)
Season six casting calls opened in December 2015. It was filmed in Sweden in May and June 2016.
Contestants
Episodes
The winner of season six was Sarah Steinman, who met her relatives near Skara, Västra Götaland. Micka Cain, Patrick Glass, and Steven Swanson came in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, respectively.
US casting
Casting each year is announced through The Great Swedish Adventure.