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The Best TV Shows on NPO 1

Every NPO 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of NPO 1’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of April 2025. For top-tier entertainment, NPO 1 delivered Eurovision Song Contest and Dagboek van een herdershond in 1956 and 1978. NPO 1 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1956 all the way to 2022.

  • NOS Studio Sportzomer
    NOS Studio Sportzomer (2021)9.0

  • Oogappels
    Oogappels (2019)8.2

    Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!

  • Wie is de Mol?
    Wie is de Mol? (1999)8.0

    Ten candidates have to complete assignments to earn money. However, one of the group members is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is and need to unmask them. At the end of every episode, the candidates take a multiple-choice test about the mole's identity. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. This process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.

  • Farmer Wants a Wife
    Farmer Wants a Wife (2004)8.0

    The basic structure of the program is that a number of farmers are presented with women from the city, from whom they choose one to be their spouse. The first edition premièred in the United Kingdom on ITV in 2001. However, the original format of the program is likely to date back to the TV program Bauer sucht Bäuerin, which was broadcast in 1983 on SF DRS in Switzerland.

  • Keyzer en de Boer Advocaten
    Keyzer en de Boer Advocaten (2005)8.0

  • 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.

  • Flikken Rotterdam
    Flikken Rotterdam (2016)7.7

    Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

  • De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach
    De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022)7.5

    Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.1

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • Oppassen!!!
    Oppassen!!! (1991)6.8

    Sitcom about two grandfathers taking care of their grandchildren, so their children can focus on their careers.

  • Toen was geluk heel gewoon
    Toen was geluk heel gewoon (1994)6.8

    On January 2, 1994 the Dutch KRO television started an comic TV-show, based on the American sitcom 'The Honeymooners'. The scripts of these series were translated and edited by Gerard Cox and Sjoerd Pleijsier, two of the main actors. From the start of the fourth season they started to write their own episodes. The series are taking place in the south of Rotterdam, late fifties. The last season of the series took place in 1976.

  • Van der Valk
    Van der Valk (2020)6.2

    Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.

  • Dagboek van een herdershond
    Dagboek van een herdershond (1978)6.1

    In this period drama series, the young, unexperienced Catholic priest Erik Odekerke -who keeps a diary, and is once described as a (pastoral) 'sheperd dog', gets his first assignment, as kapelaan -literally 'chaplain', but in Dutch still in assistant to the parish's curate- in a mining town in Dutch Limburg.

  • Dit Was Het Nieuws
    Dit Was Het Nieuws (1996)5.7

    Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

  • Hunted
    Hunted (2016)4.8

    Can you just disappear nowadays? 12 contestants need to stay out of a hunter team of experts for 21 days. the 'hunters' have experience in police, military and private sector tracking. Leading detective Sander Schaepman hunts the 'fugitives' from his headquarters.

  • De Avondetappe
    De Avondetappe (2005)1.0

    De Avondetappe is a daily television program during the Tour de France that discusses the stage of that day. From 2003 to 2014, the presentation was in the hands of Mart Smeets. In 2015, the program was replaced by NOS Studio Tour, but since 2016 De Avondetappe has returned to the screen, now with presenters Dione de Graaff and Herman van der Zandt.

  • NOS Studio Voetbal
    NOS Studio Voetbal (2002)0.5

  • Van jonge leu en oale groond
    Van jonge leu en oale groond (2005)N/A

  • Maestro
    Maestro (2012)N/A

  • Khalid & Sophie
    Khalid & Sophie (2021)N/A

    Daily talk show hosted alternately by Khalid Kasem and Sophie Hilbrand. They discuss social themes with stakeholders and receive current guests from politics, sports, music, culture and entertainment.