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The Best TV Shows on M-Net

Every M-Net Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Showcasing over 20 shows from 1988 up until 2024, M-Net stands as a beacon of television excellence. Premiering in 1988 and 1992, Carte Blanche and Egoli: Place of Gold are among M-Net’s most celebrated shows. Discover the best of M-Net with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for November 2024.

  • The Coconuts
    The Coconuts (2008)9.0

    A South African television sitcom which tells the story of a white family who transform into a black family after violating the burial grounds of an ancient tribe.

  • 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.

  • Lioness
    Lioness (2021)9.0

    A woman is wrongly convicted of fraud and in the process losses her children. She emerges from prison eight years later intending to reunite with her children and clear her name.

  • 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.

  • My Kitchen Rules South Africa
    My Kitchen Rules South Africa (2017)8.0

    Join local singing and cooking sensation J'Something and award-winning chef David Higgs for the South African version of this addictive cooking show.

  • Legacy
    Legacy (2020)8.0

    Legacy is a South African telenovela which follows the wealthy Price household, a family at war with itself after the patriarch announces he is stepping down, creating a power vacuum.

  • Summertide
    Summertide (2024)8.0

    Summertide tells the story of marine biologist and father of two children, Martin Field, who moves to the False Bay area to get away from a big secret - the death of his wife. There he starts a marine conservation trust for False Bay - but life isn't as simple as it seems.

  • Survivor South Africa
    Survivor South Africa (2006)7.4

    The South African edition of the Survivor reality television game show format in which contestants are isolated in a remote location and progressively eliminated by the vote of their fellow contestants.

  • Carte Blanche
    Carte Blanche (1988)7.0

    Carte Blanche is a South African current affairs investigative series which covers a variety of current affairs topics including Mark Shuttleworth's trip to the moon to the Tsunami disaster to the biggest murder cases being tried in SA courts.

  • MasterChef South Africa
    MasterChef South Africa (2012)7.0

    Aspiring chefs go up against one another in a culinary competition that requires them to impress the judges by preparing various types of dishes and become the ultimate winner.

  • Egoli: Place of Gold
    Egoli: Place of Gold (1992)6.8

    A South African television soap opera created by Franz Marx which revolves around the daily ups, downs, trials and tribulations of a handful of families in and around Johannesburg (which is often referred to as eGoli - the City of Gold)

  • Desert Rose
    Desert Rose (2022)6.8

    The Greyling siblings reunite at their family home in the Namaqualand desert in the Northern Cape after one of them reneges on a decade-long deal to settle the debts they took on when their father abandoned them and disappeared.

  • Trackers
    Trackers (2019)6.5

    Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

  • White Lies
    White Lies (2024)6.4

    Set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, investigative journalist Edie Hansen gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past.

  • Recipes for Love and Murder
    Recipes for Love and Murder (2022)5.7

    Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

  • 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.

  • Reyka
    Reyka (2021)5.4

    In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.

  • Idols (South Africa)
    Idols (South Africa) (2002)5.0

    Idols was a television show on the South African television network Mzansi Magic, and previously on M-Net, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show was a contest to determine the best young singer in South Africa.

  • Devil's Peak
    Devil's Peak (2023)4.7

    Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.

  • The Wild
    The Wild (2011)4.0

    The Wild is a South African soap opera created by Rohan Dickson, Richard Nosworthy and Bronwyn Berry and produced by M-Net's in-house production arm Magic Factory and shot entirely on location which revolves around three families – the Lebones, the van Reenens and the Tladis - who, because of past conflicts, struggle to negotiate a cohesive future, despite being bound together by their relationship to a special piece of land.