24-Hour Live Coverage of Sweden´s Epic Moose Migration Draws to a Close

This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)
This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)
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24-Hour Live Coverage of Sweden´s Epic Moose Migration Draws to a Close

This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)
This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)

The seventh season of Swedish slow TV hit "The Great Moose Migration" will end Sunday night after 20 days of 24-hour live coverage.
The show, called " Den stora älgvandringen " in Swedish, began in 2019 with nearly a million people watching. In 2024, the production hit 9 million viewers on SVT Play, the streaming platform for national broadcaster SVT.

By midmorning Sunday, the livestream´s remote cameras captured 70 moose swimming across the Ångerman River, some 300 kilometers (187 miles) northwest of Stockholm, in the annual spring migration toward summer grazing pastures.
The livestream will end at 10 p.m. local time (2000 GMT) Sunday. It kicked off April 15, a week ahead of schedule due to warm weather and early moose movement.
Johan Erhag, SVT´s project manager for "The Great Moose Migration," said this year's crew will have produced 478 hours of footage - "which we are very satisfied with," he wrote in an email to The Associated Press Saturday evening.
Figures for this year's audience were not immediately available.
"The Great Moose Migration" is part of a trend that began in 2009 with Norwegian public broadcaster NRK´s minute-by-minute airing of a seven-hour train trip across the southern part of the country.
The slow TV style of programing has spread, with productions in the United Kingdom, China and elsewhere. The central Dutch city of Utrecht, for example, installed a " fish doorbell " on a river lock that lets livestream viewers alert authorities to fish being held up as they migrate to spawning grounds.



World’s Most Popular TikTok Star Khaby Lame Leaves the US after Being Detained by ICE

Khaby Lame poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Oppenheimer" in London, July 13, 2023. (AP)
Khaby Lame poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Oppenheimer" in London, July 13, 2023. (AP)
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World’s Most Popular TikTok Star Khaby Lame Leaves the US after Being Detained by ICE

Khaby Lame poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Oppenheimer" in London, July 13, 2023. (AP)
Khaby Lame poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Oppenheimer" in London, July 13, 2023. (AP)

Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the US after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa.

The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order, a spokesperson for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed in a statement.

Lame arrived in the US on April 30 and “overstayed the terms of his visa,” the ICE spokesperson said. The Associated Press sent a message seeking comment Tuesday to the email address listed on Lame’s Instagram account. He has not publicly commented on his detainment.

His detainment and voluntary departure from the US comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigration, including raids in Los Angeles that sparked days of protests against ICE, as the president tests the bounds of his executive authority.

A voluntary departure, which was granted to Lame, allows those facing removal from the US to avoid a deportation order on their immigration record, which could prevent them from being allowed back into the US for up to a decade.

The 25-year-old rose to international fame during the pandemic without ever saying a word in his videos, which would show him reacting to absurdly complicated “life hacks.” He has over 162 million followers on TikTok alone.

The Senegal-born influencer moved to Italy when he was an infant with his working class parents and has Italian citizenship.

His internet fame quickly evolved. He signed a multi-year partnership with designer brand Hugo Boss in 2022. In January, he was appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

Last month, he attended the Met Gala in New York City, days after arriving in the US.