The Best TV Shows on NTR

Every NTR Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, NTR has aired more than 20 shows between 2001 and 2025. Sinterklaasjournaal and Top 2000 represent the pinnacle of NTR’s programming, launching in 2001 and N/A. As of January 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of NTR’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Real Life in the Zoo
    Real Life in the Zoo (2019)9.0

    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
    The Story of The Netherlands (2022)9.0

    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.

  • Sinterklaasjournaal
    Sinterklaasjournaal (2001)8.6

  • Het verhaal van Amsterdam
    Het verhaal van Amsterdam (2025)7.0

  • Elixir
    Elixir (2025)6.3

    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?

  • Top 2000
    Top 2000 (N/A)N/A

    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.

  • Verborgen Verleden
    Verborgen Verleden (2010)N/A

    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.

  • De Wilde Keuken
    De Wilde Keuken (2010)N/A

  • SpangaS: Leergeld
    SpangaS: Leergeld (2010)N/A

  • Welkom bij de Romeinen
    Welkom bij de Romeinen (2014)N/A

  • Hier zijn de Van Rossems
    Hier zijn de Van Rossems (2015)N/A

  • Project Rembrandt
    Project Rembrandt (2019)N/A

    Viewers follow painters across eight episodes as the show searches for the most talented painter in the Netherlands.

  • Nieuw Zeer
    Nieuw Zeer (2020)N/A

  • Who do you think you are?
    Who do you think you are? (2020)N/A

    Who do you think you are? is a program full of psychological, social and physical experiments with a good dose of humor. Rob Urgert and Joep van Deudekom always subject two groups of people who are opposite each other in society to scientific, but often hilarious experiments, to gain more insight into their differences.

  • Kiespijn
    Kiespijn (2021)N/A

  • Welkom in de Middeleeuwen
    Welkom in de Middeleeuwen (2022)N/A

  • Welkom in de prehistorie
    Welkom in de prehistorie (2023)N/A

  • Jan Janszoon, Piraat van de wereld
    Jan Janszoon, Piraat van de wereld (2024)N/A

    Documentary series about the life of the 17th century pirate Jan Janszoon aka Mourad Raïs.

  • Het Verhaal van de Oranjes
    Het Verhaal van de Oranjes (2024)N/A

  • Welkom in Amsterdam
    Welkom in Amsterdam (2025)N/A