Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven (born October 20, 1967) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 television host, known from Typisk norsk

Typisk norsk

Typisk norsk is a news and magazine program about language and communication produced by Dropout Productions and Rubicon TV for NRK. Three seasons of the program have been produced...

which airs on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for "Midt i smørøyet" and as the producer of the radio program "Holger Nielsens metode" on NRK P3

NRK P3

NRK P3 is one of three nation-wide analogue radio channels operated by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation . It was established as NRK's third radio channel in 1993, and focuses on youth culture: principally music, together with humour, entertainment, and health education.Over the years NRK P3...

, among other things. After Typisk norsk he hosted the shows Adam og Eva and Tingenes tilstand.

During his education, he has studied psychology, Norwegian language, media studies

Media studies

Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...

, and philosophy (both generally and as a minor/concentration).

He is the older brother of actor Erik A. Schjerven. He is the partner of Norunn Blichfeldt and has two children.