The Best TV Shows on France 5

Every France 5 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

For top-tier entertainment, France 5 delivered Le Monde En Face and Rolie Polie Olie in 1987 and 1998. Peruse our comprehensive roster of France 5’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of August 2025. Showcasing over 20 shows from 1987 up until 2020, France 5 stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • Un film et son époque
    Un film et son époque (2003)10.0

  • Le Monde En Face
    Le Monde En Face (1987)9.7

    Weekly current affairs show

  • Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects
    Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects (2006)8.1

    Short video animations giving a bird's eye view of insects' day to day existence, distorted through a burlesque, yet poetic lens.

  • Noddy: Toyland Detective
    Noddy: Toyland Detective (2016)8.0

    Toyland’s boy detective, Noddy, solves mysteries and finds missing objects with help from his friends: a panda, a superhero, a dinosaur and a robot.

  • Simon
    Simon (2016)7.7

    Simon is an adorable little rabbit who exudes all the vitality of childhood. He's at an age when little rabbits (and indeed little children!) are starting to come into their own - challenging relationships with parents, embarking upon school life, learning about the world in general, dealing with authority and of course, language.

  • The Naked Travellers
    The Naked Travellers (2012)7.6

    Two bold young adventurers set off naked and penniless, only equipped with a knife, a bundle, three discreet cameras and a drone.

  • The Real War of Thrones
    The Real War of Thrones (2017)7.6

    In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.

  • Amazing Train Journeys
    Amazing Train Journeys (2011)7.5

  • Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
    Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land (2004)7.3

  • Science grand format
    Science grand format (2016)7.0

    A look at relevant scientific issues

  • Brazen
    Brazen (2020)7.0

    Thirty portraits of women who dared to shatter prejudice and change the world in their own way.

  • Loopdidoo
    Loopdidoo (N/A)6.8

    LOOPDIDOO tells the adventures of an eager pup and his 5-year-old human, Petunia. Each day is a new slate for these two best pals, typically bringing much mischief along with fun times together. Sometimes they're joined by Loopdidoo's feline nemesis, Oodles, who keeps the doggy on his toes with his antics.

  • Rolie Polie Olie
    Rolie Polie Olie (1998)6.6

    Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.

  • Yakari
    Yakari (2005)6.6

    The adventures of a young Sioux Native American who has the unique ability to talk with animals.

  • C à vous
    C à vous (2009)6.1

    Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.

  • Le Doc du dimanche
    Le Doc du dimanche (2008)5.7

  • SamSam
    SamSam (2007)3.0

    Meet SamSam, the smallest of heroes. For a hero, he doesn't quite yet have super powers. But it doesn't mean he can't fly his own SamSaucer into space or can't deal with dirty rotten monsters. Sometimes he does need a little help from his cuddly SamTeddy, SamMummy or SamDaddy, as well as his friends. And granted, sometimes, using his noggin and a bit of imagination gets the work done, too.

  • C ce soir, le débat
    C ce soir, le débat (2021)2.0

  • Empreintes
    Empreintes (2007)N/A

  • Little Bear
    Little Bear (2020)N/A

    Pompon is a six-year-old - in bear years. He is mischievous, cheerful, and playful. But above all things, he has an incredible and precious talent that his best friend Rita and his parents enjoy tremendously: he can make extra out of ordinary! Thanks to his imagination taking him on creative detours, growing day by day becomes child’s play!