The Best TV Shows on KykNET

Every KykNET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

KykNET has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2004 all the way to 2026. Highlighting KykNET’s quality programming, Villa Rosa and Binnelanders stand out, premiering in 2004 and 2005. Discover the best of KykNET with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for September 2026.

  • Die Oord
    Die Oord (2026)10.0

    A holiday town on the coast. Families who have been camping at the same caravan park for generations. Children playing on the beach. Braai under the trees. Everything is idyllic - until a body washes up on the beach.

  • Beter as Gister
    Beter as Gister (2026)10.0

    Beter as Gister is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around four families and especially the role of the men in them, inspired by the question: Why are fathers held to a different standard than mothers?

  • Proesstraat
    Proesstraat (2010)9.0

    Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.

  • Sterlopers
    Sterlopers (2014)9.0

    Sterlopers is a South African musical youth drama television series created and written by Deon Opperman and produced by Bottom Line Entertainment which follows the fortunes of a group of young people who are all trying to make it in the entertainment industry, as viewers get an inside view into the secrets that are to be found behind the scenes of success.

  • Republiek van Zoid Afrika
    Republiek van Zoid Afrika (2014)9.0

    Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.

  • Fynskrif
    Fynskrif (2018)9.0

    A legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.

  • Alles Malan
    Alles Malan (2019)9.0

    Alles Malan is a family drama that plays off in the Paarl just outside Cape Town. Derik and Brenda Malan are the head of the family. Their first born son, Frik returns after 8 years from England to take over their family business from his father. His wife, Tessa, and their two teenage kids accompanies him, but each has a challenge of their own.

  • Projek Dina
    Projek Dina (2020)9.0

    A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

  • Getroud Met Rugby
    Getroud Met Rugby (2009)8.5

    Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various interconnected scandals.

  • Diepe Waters
    Diepe Waters (2022)8.2

    A South African, Afrikaans-language telenovela which takes place in and around a competitive swimming club, Die Swartmarlyne.

  • Amalia
    Amalia (2005)8.0

    Amalia is a South African television drama series created by Chris Barnard, directed by Katinka Heyns and produced by Sonneblom Films about an unsolved murder where all the inhabitants of a small town are suspects. The series is in Afrikaans, with English subtitles.

  • Bravo!
    Bravo! (2012)8.0

    A local weekly entertainment news magazine show.

  • Die Byl
    Die Byl (2016)8.0

    The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

  • Jukebox
    Jukebox (2008)7.0

    Jukebox is a South African Afrikaans-language music video request television show in which a selection of viewer's choice music videos are played.

  • Boer Soek 'n Vrou
    Boer Soek 'n Vrou (2008)7.0

    Boer Soek 'n Vrou is a reality program based on the international series "Farmer Wants A Wife". The farmers for the program are selected from hundreds of applications and then introduced to the public in a special program on KykNET earlier in the year. Singles then get the chance to send a romantic love letter to the farmer of their choice. Based on the letters that the farmers receive, they choose 10 potential life partners that they would like to get to know better on the program.

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.0

    Suidooster is a South African television soap opera produced by Suidooster Films which revolves around a matriarch, her family, friends and the people of Suidooster, a small shopping and business centre in the fictional Cape Town suburb of Ruiterbosch.

  • Villa Rosa
    Villa Rosa (2004)6.0

    In Bloemfontein there is a guest house where the walls have ears and where there is daily drama, intrigue and also a lot of comedy.

  • Molly & Wors
    Molly & Wors (2009)6.0

    Molly en Wors is a situation comedy (sitcom) that was broadcast on kykNET from 2009 to 2011. The program revolves around the dysfunctional Visagie family who live in a luxurious Tuscan Villa within Johannesburg. The family members consist of Wors, Molly, Vaatjie and Blapsie. The underlying humor lies in irony, the exposure of double standards, allusion, as well as the "parvenu" that comes out.

  • Binnelanders
    Binnelanders (2005)5.5

    A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.

  • Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie
    Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie (2016)3.0

    Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie is a South African soap opera based on the feature film and later drama series Getroud met Rugby by Deon Opperman, which is set amongst a rugby-playing community.