The Best TV Shows on NPO Start

Every NPO Start Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Highlighting NPO Start’s quality programming, Dit Was Het Nieuws and Wie is de Mol? stand out, premiering in 1996 and 1999. Dive into our updated selection of NPO Start’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of June 2025. From 1996 through to 2025, NPO Start has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows.

  • Een Huis Vol
    Een Huis Vol (N/A)9.0

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • De vuurwerkramp
    De vuurwerkramp (2025)7.8

    Residents, police and the municipal government of the Dutch city of Enschede face loss, guilt and responsibility as they grapple with the May 2000 explosion of a fireworks depot that wipes a working-class suburb off the map.

  • Elixer
    Elixer (2025)7.0

    Isabelle Rombauts is unexpectedly appointed CEO of the family business Rombauts Pharma, an important player on the international pharmaceutical market. She soon encounters the consequences of serious mismanagement by her father and brother. And she is faced with a devilish dilemma: should she follow her own conscience? Or the interests of her influential family?

  • 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.

  • Ik vertrek
    Ik vertrek (2005)5.2

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Maestro
    Maestro (2012)N/A

  • MoleTalk
    MoleTalk (2016)N/A

    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.

  • Vermist!
    Vermist! (2019)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