The Best TV Shows on NPO Start

Every NPO Start Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Across the timeline from 1996 to 2024, NPO Start has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Premiering in 1996 and 1999, Dit Was Het Nieuws and Wie is de Mol? are among NPO Start’s most celebrated shows. As of November 2025, our compilation of NPO Start’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • NOS Studio Sportzomer
    NOS Studio Sportzomer (2021)9.0

  • The Story of The Netherlands
    The Story of The Netherlands (2022)8.5

    The Story of the Netherlands tells the story of the country we live in, from the moment the first inhabitants settled there. Never before has our history, and how it has made us who we are today, been made tangible in this way. The project consists of a 10-part television series for NPO 1, with Daan Schuurmans as narrator.

  • Wie is de Mol?
    Wie is de Mol? (1999)8.1

    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.

  • Een Huis Vol
    Een Huis Vol (N/A)7.5

  • Oogappels
    Oogappels (2019)7.3

    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!

  • Het gouden uur
    Het gouden uur (2022)7.3

  • 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.

  • Dit Was Het Nieuws
    Dit Was Het Nieuws (1996)6.5

    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.

  • Laura H.
    Laura H. (2024)5.0

    Laura H, The teenager from Zoetermeer takes on a new identity in her search for herself and travels with her husband Ibrahim and two children to the caliphate in Syria. When she shows up at the border in 2016 and says she has escaped and regrets it, doubts about her motives are great. Why did Laura choose to travel to the 'Caliphate'?

  • 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.

  • Ik vertrek
    Ik vertrek (2005)4.7

  • 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.

  • NOS Studio Voetbal
    NOS Studio Voetbal (2002)0.5

  • Maestro
    Maestro (2012)N/A

  • ARIA
    ARIA (2021)N/A

  • Kiespijn
    Kiespijn (2021)N/A

  • In het spoor van Oranje
    In het spoor van Oranje (2021)N/A

  • Hunted VIPS
    Hunted VIPS (2021)N/A

    Five duos of Dutch celebrities go on the run and try to stay out of the hands of the detective team. Is it a disadvantage that everyone knows who you are?

  • Geheugenmemory
    Geheugenmemory (2022)N/A

    Six tough questions are hidden behind twelve memory cards. If Arjen turns over a set, he can ask the question. Does the guest get a set? Then the question is out of the game.

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