På Minuten
''På minuten'' (''English lit.: On the minute'' meaning "within the confines of a minute") is a Swedish radio panel game similar to the BBC's '' Just a Minute''. Recorded before a live audience, it is broadcast on Sveriges Radio P1 on Saturdays at 16.03, with a repeat the following day at 18.00. The recordings are made at Sveriges Radio, or sometimes at Stockholm City Theatre's Soppteater (café-theatre).SR, Stadsteatern
Pictures from Stockholm City Theatre from På Minuten's website.

History

''På minuten'' was first broadcast on 18 February 1969. It was the Swedish version of the ''Just a Minute'' that had started two years earlier. It was first broadcast from

Panel Game
A panel show or panel game is a radio broadcasting, radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on ''The News Quiz''; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on ''Match Game'' and ''Blankety Blank''; or do both, such as on ''Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me''. The genre can be traced to 1938, when ''Information Please'' debuted on United States, U.S. radio. The earliest known television panel show is ''Play the Game (American game show), Play the Game'', a charades show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with ''Stop Me If You've Heard This One'' in 1939 and ''Can You Top This?'' in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the United Kingdom. Format While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get the right answers ...
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