The Best TV Shows on NPO 3

Every NPO 3 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 2001 to 2023, NPO 3 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. For top-tier entertainment, NPO 3 delivered Sinterklaasjournaal and Dunya & Desie in 2001 and 2002. Peruse our comprehensive roster of NPO 3’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of March 2026.

  • Sinterklaasjournaal
    Sinterklaasjournaal (2001)8.6

  • Ranking the Stars
    Ranking the Stars (2006)8.3

    Ten Dutch celebrities participate in each broadcast. Two non-ordinary questions are asked of the Dutch celebrities per episode, such as "Who would have the easiest time going forty days without sex?", "Who used to be chosen last in gymnastics?" and "Who is your best friend?". The broadcasts claim that for each question a panel of 100 people compiled in advance a top 10 in which the famous candidates were "ranked."

  • Girls Who Ride
    Girls Who Ride (2021)8.0

    We follow fourteen women who have fulfilled their girlhood dream and become truck drivers. The girls drive 500 hp trucks, sometimes cross all of Europe and sleep in their cabins. They are tough girls who hold their own in a world dominated by men.

  • Penoza
    Penoza (2010)7.7

    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.

  • SKAM NL
    SKAM NL (2018)7.6

    The story of a group of teenagers in high school in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in their search for friendship, love, their own identity, and overcoming fears.

  • Dunya & Desie
    Dunya & Desie (2002)7.3

  • Het gouden uur
    Het gouden uur (2022)7.3

  • Zondag met Lubach
    Zondag met Lubach (2014)7.2

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

  • #BOOS
    #BOOS (2016)7.0

  • MoleTalk
    MoleTalk (2016)7.0

    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.

  • De Faker
    De Faker (2021)7.0

  • Arcadia
    Arcadia (2023)6.0

    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
    The First Years (2014)5.2

    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
    Best Friends (2007)3.0

    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
    Draadstaal (2007)1.5

    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
    Waku Waku (2022)1.0

    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.

  • Metropolis
    Metropolis (2008)N/A

  • Het Verborgen Eiland
    Het Verborgen Eiland (2014)N/A

    Two families join forces for a sailing holiday, but after their navigation equipment stops working, they find themselves stranded on a mysterious island that doesn't seem to exist on any maps. But they are not alone.

  • Nieuw Zeer
    Nieuw Zeer (2020)N/A

  • Van Roosmalen & Groenteman
    Van Roosmalen & Groenteman (2023)N/A