The Best TV Shows on NPO 3

Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.

Sunday with Lubach is a satirical television program of the VPRO network that is presented by Arjen Lubach.

Playful penguin Pingu lives with his family in Antarctica, where he often finds himself caught up in mischievous high jinks with his pal Robby.

Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.

The First Years is a Dutch series for young people in which real-life situations are recreated. The series sheds light on subjects that pupils in the first year of secondary school may be confronted with.

Best Friends follows the life of a group of friends at their high school ‘Spangalis College’. Inside and outside of school exciting and challenging experiences take place. Growing up is never easy; every character has its own, unique story of love, friendship, loneliness, sorrow, discovery. There is drama and joy in school, family, teachers, parents, divorce, bullying, and always dreams for the future.

Draadstaal is a satirical sketch comedy television program of the VPRO, and CCCP 2 Dutch production company and broadcaster. It was created by CCCP and Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Dennis van de Ven. The show features lots of recurring stereotypical characters. The program is reminiscent of the work of Van Kooten en De Bie.

Waku waku is the Dutch version of a Japanese game-show format (hence the name, unintelligible in Dutch or other Western languages) in which a small panel of celebrities is shown a number of short film sequences in which (usually wild or zoo) animals are shown in unusual (often artificially created) situations. The presenter asks the panel members multiple choice-questions about what an animal (or group)'s next move or reaction will be, as a rule a matter of guessing, the scores don't actually affect the show.

Young transgenders are followed for a year. The program shows what it's like to be born in the wrong body. What do they have to go through to become who they are?

Tim, Lotte and Floor Bouwman find out that something is wrong at the camping site of their grandfather Darius. Also strange things occur in the forest. Soon they meet secret allies hiding in the forest and trying to figure out together what is going on. Gradually, the children discover that the company Gentopia has everything to do with it. And that Director Cleo King is a lot less innocent than she seems. The kids do everything to find the truth and help grandfather Darius and his campsite, the forest and even save people and animals from extinction.

Immediately after The Mole you can watch MolTalk, live from VondelCS in Amsterdam. In these commentary's, Marlijn Weerdenburg and Splinter Chabot discuss hints, tasks and theory's with former candidates and other guests.

First appeared in black and white on Dutch newspapers in the 50s and 60s, Pim & Pom is a series about the mischievous adventures of two cats. With abundant imagination and energy, these two lifelong friends turn every day into something very special! A vacuum cleaner can be a monster, a pile of newspapers can be a house, and a bathroom floor a skating rink. Through thick and thin Pim and Pom always stand by each other. A fresh, original, and endearing animation series.