PHOTO: Bildbyrån
Linn Svahn, Frida Karlsson and William Poromaa have been guests.
The new SVT program “Kallprat” with Johan Kücükaslan has been praised.
But now there is also unexpected criticism from TV journalist Johan Croneman.
During the winter, SVT launched a brand new TV program called “Kallprat”. Johan Kücükaslan is the host and invites the biggest names in Swedish skiing for a different interview between four eyes.
Svahn & Karlsson
The Star Riders Frida Karlsson, Sebastian Samuelsson, William Poromaa, Lynn Svahn, Emil Persson and Hanna Öberg guests to be grilled for a quarter of an hour with uncomfortable questions that they are not usually asked in connection with competitions. It should rub a little and it should be offered for laughs during the interviews with our popular athletes.
The article continues after the picture.
The SVT program is broadcast in six episodes and has so far offered unexpected recognitions and delicious headlines when the skiing profiles opened up about their lives and careers. The TV show has also been praised by viewers and critics.
“A cold chat with Johan Kücükaslan on SVT Sport is very good, but it’s hardly a cold chat,” writes the experienced TV journalist Johan Croneman in a column on Dagens Nyheter.
“It will be 16 minutes of really good entertainment, Johan Kücükaslan has a disarming style and the cast also seem to have fully accepted the slightly more playful concept. That said, it’s going to be very good, the best sports interviews I’ve seen on TV in a long time – even when Johan Kücükaslan pushes the informal style a little too far. No matter how you twist and turn an interview in a television studio, with an outspoken sports reporter and an outspoken sports star, there are always limits to what can and will unfold.”
The criticism against SVT
Croneman is impressed by both the TV show and presenter Kücükaslan.
“It is not, and will not be, a completely authentic conversation – but it can sometimes sound like one, and in that respect, Johan Kücükaslan has succeeded exceedingly. He even dares to be a little childish and creepy without it bothering him, and the participating skiers have both understood the premise and play along with it. Several of the conversations in the Kallprat series partly feel as if they are being conducted behind the scenes, and anyone who has ever tried to interview a sports star – regardless of which one – knows how incredibly difficult it can be to get a single original answer to their questions,” writes he in his chronicle
“Johan Kücükaslan is one of the best they have at SVT Sport, so no one is really surprised that he has so far made all the participants feel good, relax, talk quite a lot, and actually: Succeeds in saying a lot like us did not know.
The article continues after the picture.
But the DN journalist also directs unexpected criticism at SVT for what happens at the end of each episode. He doesn’t appreciate that crucial detail at all.
“The conversations take place in a quite deliberately (?) cheerful ‘sports hall environment’, I have a hard time understanding why, but it is perhaps of secondary importance. On the other hand, I find it very difficult to understand why, after the interview is finished, it should be zoomed out so that we really see that they were sitting in a small, cramped studio in the middle of studio technology, studio men, lights, cords,” writes Johan Croneman in his column.
“Is it a deliberate move? Shall an illusion be broken? Maybe it’s a good intellectually thought-out idea – or maybe you just think it’s cool to show how it actually looks and works. Adds absolutely nothing, possibly on the contrary detracts from the nice 16 minutes they just had together. A bit unnecessary.”
What do you think of the TV program “Kallprat”? Share the article and have your say!
READ MORE: Gunde Svan reveals the truth about the huge fight with his friend Thomas Wassberg – now admits 40 years later: “It stung”
Sign up for our newsletter
Share