Rikets tilstand

Rikets tilstand ("State of the Realm") is a Norwegian investigative documentary series that aired on TV 2 from 1999 to 2002.^[1] The host was Gerhard Helskog, former host of Dokument 2.^[1] The series premiered on 30 September 1999.^[1]

Rikets tilstand
Genre	Documentary Investigative journalism
Created by	Gerhard Helskog
Country of origin	Norway
Original language	Norwegian
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	36
Original release
Network	TV 2
Release	30 September 1999 (1999-09-30) – 11 December 2002 (2002-12-11)
Related
Dokument 2

Rikets tilstand won a SKUP diploma and the Gullruten award for best documentary for the two-part episode Norske jenter omskjæres (2000), about Norwegian Muslim girls being subjected to female genital mutilation with the secret approval of imams.^[2][3]

The series became subject to a scandal in 2002 after an episode made unsubstantiated allegations of doping in the Norwegian national skiing team.^[4] The series was also tarnished for sparking a moral panic following an episode in 2001 alleging the now-discredited link between the MMR vaccine and autism.^[5][6] Helskog was himself sued for libel (although eventually acquitted)^[7] by Jan Simonsen, who claimed the series had directly resulted in him being expelled from the Progress Party.^[8]