The Best TV Shows on RTÉ One

Every RTÉ One Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1956 through to 2025, RTÉ One has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of RTÉ One’s elite series, with our list refreshed for October 2025. Notable series such as Eurovision Song Contest and The Late Late Show from RTÉ One first graced the screens in 1956 and 1962.

  • Killinaskully
    Killinaskully (2003)8.5

    details the bizarre goings-on in a fictitious Irish village called Killinaskully located in the hills of Ireland

  • The Fall
    The Fall (2013)7.7

    When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.

  • Obituary
    Obituary (2023)7.7

    When Elvira’s editor informs her that she will be paid per article, she begins murdering people to avoid going broke. Her plans are shaken when she falls for the crime reporter.

  • Kin
    Kin (2021)7.6

    The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.

  • Love/Hate
    Love/Hate (2010)7.5

    Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.

  • Mrs Brown's Boys
    Mrs Brown's Boys (2011)7.5

    Mrs. Brown's Boys is a British-Irish award winning sitcom created by and starring writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. The show is based on O'Carroll's stage plays about the character Agnes Browne, which were developed from books and straight-to-DVD films. The sitcom continues the stories of Agnes, now with the shortened surname "Brown", and her family who are played by real life close friends and family of O'Carroll's. After being slated by critics, the show has become a ratings success in both Ireland, where it is set, and the United Kingdom, where it is recorded. On 29 December 2012 the show began its third series. Mrs Brown's Boys is a co-production among BBC Scotland, BocPix and RTÉ.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.3

    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.

  • Rebellion
    Rebellion (2016)7.0

    A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.

  • Hidden Assets
    Hidden Assets (2021)6.6

    A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.

  • Smother
    Smother (2021)6.6

    On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

  • Blackshore
    Blackshore (2024)6.6

    A police detective returns to her hometown and becomes involved in a missing person case, which is linked to her traumatic past and the town's dark history.

  • SisterS
    SisterS (2023)6.5

    Two women, one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father.

  • Clean Sweep
    Clean Sweep (2023)6.4

    Shelly Mohan is a regular mum who juggles the lives and schedules of three children and a husband who is a local detective. It’s a chaotic and mostly thankless life, but one with which she is happy…until a dark secret emerges from her past.

  • Resistance
    Resistance (2019)6.2

    This follow up to the Rebellion miniseries unfolds at the height of what became known as Ireland's War of Independence, and follows the lives of those caught up in the vicissitudes of history.

  • Dragons' Den
    Dragons' Den (2009)6.0

    Irish version of the reality show in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing.

  • Quirke
    Quirke (2014)5.9

    Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.

  • The Late Late Show
    The Late Late Show (1962)5.2

    Chat show that looks at current affairs in Ireland.

  • Fair City
    Fair City (1989)3.7

    The day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown.

  • The Zoo
    The Zoo (2010)N/A

    Go behind the scenes at Dublin's Phoenix Park zoo and get closer to the animals and its zookeepers. Set in 70 acres, The Zoo welcomes nearly a million visitors a year and is home to more than 600 exotic animals,

  • Leonard and Hungry Paul
    Leonard and Hungry Paul (2025)N/A

    Follow two unique board-gaming friends meandering through leafy suburban life, charting a story about Judo, ancient Rome, first loves, and the expansion of the Universe.