The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1988 through to 2026, RTL II has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Discover the best of RTL II with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for April 2026. Some of the best tv shows from RTL II include C.O.P.S. and Ottifants, airing in 1988 and 1993 respectively.

  • The Dome
    The Dome (1997)10.0

    The Dome is a German television program and music event, produced and broadcast by RTL 2. Roughly every three months, a new show is recorded in an event hall in different cities in Germany and Austria. In each episode, several national, but also international bands and musicians perform their recent songs in front of a crowd of 5,000 to 15,000 people. Additionally, a compilation album is published when a new episode of The Dome is broadcast.

  • Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand
    Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand (2020)8.7

    The candidates live for four weeks in a “sala”, an open bamboo hut, on a tropical beach bay on Phuket. In various games they fight for the title “Realitystar 2020” and for a prize of 50,000 euros. In the course of each episode, additional candidates join the candidate field. At the “Hour of Truth”, the followers have the power to elect two of the candidates who have been drafted before them from the show and are protected from being voted out even at their first “Hour of Truth”. The candidates can earn luxury goods, or lose existing ones. In addition, the candidates must regularly assess themselves in different categories.

  • Ottifants
    Ottifants (1993)8.5

    Otto's Ottifants is an animated series published in 1993, featuring the famous elephant-like characters created by german comedian Otto Walkes. Within a short period of time the humorous stories of Family Bommel and their notorious baby Bruno won the hearts of many young and old people in all the German-speaking areas in Europe.

  • Popstars
    Popstars (2000)8.0

    Popstars is a German reality television series that began its first installment on the RTL II network on November 14, 2000. Part of the international Popstars franchise, it originated from the same-titled New Zealand reality program. The show accompanies the making of pop music bands whose members depend on the particular season's concept. In its ten seasons, it spawned musical acts No Angels, Bro'Sis, Overground, Preluders, Nu Pagadi, Monrose, Room 2012, Queensberry, Some & Any, LaViVe and Melouria.

  • Die Wollnys - Eine schrecklich große Familie!
    Die Wollnys - Eine schrecklich große Familie! (2011)8.0

    The programme accompanies the everyday life of the Wollny extended family from Neuss (Germany).

  • Die Geissens – Eine schrecklich glamouröse Familie
    Die Geissens – Eine schrecklich glamouröse Familie (2011)7.7

    The Geisses - A Terribly Glamorous Family is a television programme starring the millionaire family Robert and Carmen Geiss.

  • Genial daneben
    Genial daneben (2023)7.0

    One year after the end of "Genial daneben" on Sat.1, RTL Zwei is reviving the comedy panel show with Hugo Egon Balder. Hella von Sinnen, Wigald Boning and the panel guests humorously try to find answers to open questions.

  • C.O.P.S.
    C.O.P.S. (1988)6.8

    C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment. This cartoon, which ran from 1988–1989, used the tag line: "Fighting crime in a future time, protecting Empire City from Big Boss and his gang of crooks". In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings as CyberCOPS, the name change due to the 1989 debut of the unrelated primetime reality show of the same name. The show was based on Hasbro's 1988 line of action figures called C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks.

  • Die Kochprofis - Einsatz am Herd
    Die Kochprofis - Einsatz am Herd (2005)5.7

    Top chefs Frank Oehler, Mike Süsser, Andreas Schweiger and Ole Plogstedt are stepping up to clean up culinary crisis areas. They give restaurateurs and their kitchens a new perspective. Their mission: to save good taste. Their demeanor: cool, fair and energetic. They arrive in German restaurants when the schnitzel is too soft, the service is too slow or the kitchen is a mess. They are the rescue squad for desperate chefs. With power and passion, they put restaurants and their owners back on the road to success - and provide maximum entertainment in the process.

  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (2000)3.4

    100 days, 24-hour surveillance, a container and no contact with the outside world: the residents live together in their new shared flat in a container for 100 days and are under 24-hour camera surveillance. Big Brother sees everything. Big Brother sets the rules. Big Brother is unpredictable.

  • Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung
    Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung (1994)N/A

  • Die Schicksalsreportage
    Die Schicksalsreportage (2006)N/A

  • Berlin - Tag & Nacht
    Berlin - Tag & Nacht (2011)N/A

    A german reality-TV soap opera with various changing protagonists, mainly young people and bachelors, trying to live their lifes in the giant metropole of Berlin.

  • MEK 8
    MEK 8 (2012)N/A

    MEK 8 works behind the scenes and always comes into play when conventional police units are overwhelmed.

  • Stadt, Land, … – Promi Spezial
    Stadt, Land, … – Promi Spezial (2012)N/A

  • Köln 50667
    Köln 50667 (2013)N/A

    The show is set in the city of Cologne and follows the lives of a group of young people in their twenties and thirties. The characters work, live, and love in the city, and the show focuses on their relationships, dramas, and personal struggles.

  • Daniela Katzenberger: Mit Lucas im Babyglück
    Daniela Katzenberger: Mit Lucas im Babyglück (2015)N/A

    Blonde docu-soap queen Daniela Katzenberger is having a baby... and is sharing it with everyone. Everything revolves around the everyday life of pregnant Daniela Katzenberger and her partner Lucas Cordalis. Their baby is due to be born in August. In eight episodes, the Palatinate chatterbox will be followed on camera through the ups and downs of having a baby, building a nest and so on. The couple go in search of a new home, as the 55 square meters of space in Daniela's apartment are gradually becoming too small. Daniela's family, who viewers have already met in previous episodes, are back on board. Lucas' relatives, above all his celebrity father Costa Cordalis, will also be seen.

  • Die Straßencops – Jugend im Visier
    Die Straßencops – Jugend im Visier (2015)N/A

  • Klinik am Südring
    Klinik am Südring (2016)N/A

    At the Klinik am Südring, real doctors and nurses offer an insight into the unknown world of medicine and everyday hospital life: exciting medical research into causes and treatment meets personal stories. Our hospital staff are the heroes of the stories and always find a solution, are competent, empathetic and always there for the patients with a lot of heart and time.

  • Kampf der RealityAllstars
    Kampf der RealityAllstars (2026)N/A