The Best TV Shows on NTR

A Dutch television program consisting of short sketches that parody news, actualities and social media.

The animals play the main role in this series. The animals are the real main characters and the supporting roles are for the caretakers or zoo staff. Decisive for the program is the camera technology, which shows the animals' lives everywhere behind the scenes and out of sight of the audience. We experience the 24-hour feeling within the walls of the zoo, just like the animals themselves. The program is recorded at Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands.

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.

Dutch quiz show that preceeds the yearly Top 2000 list

In the year that the gas tap in Groningen is finally closed, Andere Tijden (NTR) presents the four-part documentary series The earth is shaking: about the discovery of the gas bubble, the cheering everywhere in the Netherlands, the economic trees that reach the sky and the consequences and aftermath for the residents.

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?

Sesamstraat is a children's television show in the Netherlands, spin off the popular U.S. children's program Sesame Street.

De Dino Show is een wekelijks humoristisch praatprogramma uit 2011 dat wordt uitgezonden door de NTR. De presentatie is in handen van cabaretier Jandino Asporaat, naar wie het programma ook vernoemd is. In elke uitzending ontvangt Asporaat bekende gasten, waarmee hij in gesprek gaat. Tussen de gesprekken door worden komische filmpjes getoond, bijvoorbeeld de vaste sketch over het fictieve fastfoodrestaurant FC Kip . Asporaat speelt zelf mee in de sketches, veelal ondersteund door mensen met wie hij ook samenwerkte in Comedy at work, zoals acteur Sergio IJssel. De Dino Show wordt geproduceerd door Men At Work TV Produkties uit Rotterdam. Het programma wordt opgenomen in de Schiecentrale Studio's in Rotterdam.

In Hidden Past, famous Dutch people go in search of their family history. Who were their ancestors and what did they do? To find out, the main characters have to travel. Sometimes very far back in the past, sometimes much closer. In Hidden Past, the broad lines of history become visible in the stories hidden in the family trees of the main characters.

Music program of the NTR (public TV) with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and Leo Blokhuis about the list of lists: The Top 2000. The program will be broadcast around Christmas and New Year's Eve, based on the Top 2000 as defined every year by music lovers and will be broadcast in full by Radio 2 at the end of the year.

In the year of the presidential elections in the US, journalist Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal and director Hans Pool sketch a portrait of the most activist generation since the 1970s: Generation Z. However, the freedom they demand collides with other freedoms, and nowhere does that collision occur as on the surface as in Florida, a state where 'freedom' is rotten in everyone's mouth.