Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (abbreviated UMK) is an annual music contest organised by the Finnish public broadcaster Yle. UMK began in 2012 as a new concept for the Finnish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, replacing the original Finnish Eurovision Song Contest qualifying event (Suomen euroviisukarsinta) which had been held since 1961.
En dyktig kriminaletterforsker tar seg jobb i en liten by for å tilbringe mer tid med familien. Han blir imidlertid raskt innblandet i en serie uhyggelige mordgåter.
Police work, boxing and family life in Lapland! Maria Pudas (Saara Kotkaniemi), a former boxing world champion, investigates crimes with her partner Samu Pajala (Karim Rapatti) in Lapland. The life of Maria's cordial and slightly chaotic family (Iina Kuustonen, Eero Saarinen, Katariina Kaitue and Heikki Ranta) changes when Maria's father Esko has a seizure and it is revealed that he has debts of 500,000 euros. In order to save her family, Maria decides to return to the ring once more, and to resolve the situation, only victory matters.
A satirical spy comedy. Aleksis Nyqvist, an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is pushed to the head of Finland's newly founded secret service, when a suitable dummy is needed for the position. However, Nyqvist identifies with his role too well and accidentally causes a security political crisis - and soon Helsinki is swarming with secret agents. How is Nyqvist doing?
I et lite øysamfunn på på Helgelandskysten kjemper beboerne en desperat kamp for å holde sitt lille samfunn i live. I Oslo kjemper den slitne alenemoren Marit med å få endene til å møtes. Hun har to like slitne barn, Robin og Iris, en håpløs jobb og ikke engang nok penger til å leve det livet hun hater. Annonsen i VG er som sendt fra himmelen. Det eneste problemet er at Marit ikke kan tilby den perfekte kjernefamilien de søker etter. For å pynte på situasjonen, overtaler hun bestevennen Kim til å være med som ektemann. Før de vet ordet av det er Marit, Kim, Robin og Iris bosatt tusen kilometer fra storbyen med en gammel nedslitt fiskarheim som bosted og arbeidsplass. Serien var opprinnelig basert på den Britiske serien av Timothy Prager og Adrian Bate, «Two Thousand Acres of Sky», den gikk på BBC fra 2001 til 2003. Serien vant Gullruten 2009 beste TV-drama og beste kvinnelige skuespiller.
Sannheten har ingen deadline. Fire journalister holdes som gisler i én manns kamp for rettferdighet.
A journalist traces a microchip found in baby food. A bank manager's mistake ensnares her in a much larger scheme. A family falls apart after the father goes missing. An insurance examiner investigates what happened to a border control veterinarian. This suspenseful Nordic noir drama enters the world of international money laundering through the stories of ordinary people caught up in the crimes.
The life of Aki Honkala, a blindly dedicated Member of the European Parliament, takes a radical turn during one scandal-plagued election night. The fall from grace is no surprise to anyone but himself. The people have spoken, let the chatter go - but what remains of a man who has lived and breathed politics for most of his adult life?
One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.
Invisible Heroes tells the heroic tale of young Finnish diplomats in Chile during 1973’s infamous military coup. Finnish diplomats Tapani Brotherus and Ilkka Jaamala along with Tapani’s wife Lysa Brotherus helped over 2000 left-wing Chileans escape the military junta’s persecution. The Finns acted without official authorization while Swedish ambassador Harald Edelstam was the most visible defendant of human rights with the backing of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
Sketch show Studio Julmahuvi ran for 8 episodes on YLE in 1998. The show is a parody of YLE's own programming, squeezing an entire evening's worth of programming into a half-hour show which included everything from news and weather to a children's show and a German police drama, with commercials and TV-spots on the side. The show was created with an impressive budget of 67 000 € per episode which resulted in extremely high production-values.