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The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Ottifants and Riding High represent the pinnacle of RTL II’s programming, launching in 1993 and 1995. Across the timeline from 1993 to 2024, RTL II has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Peruse our comprehensive roster of RTL II’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of December 2024.

  • Riding High
    Riding High (1995)10.0

    Fifteen-year-old Wendy lives at Lindentree, a riding school and horse stud, with her parents Charles and Helen. Mad about horses and fiercely devoted to family and friends, Wendy's life primarily revolves around winning a place on the national junior show jumping team, and saving Lindentree from outside forces.

  • 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.

  • Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand
    Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand (2020)8.5

    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.

  • 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 Reimanns – Ein außergewöhnliches Leben
    Die Reimanns – Ein außergewöhnliches Leben (2013)8.0

    Die Reimanns - Ein außergewöhnliches Leben (The Reimanns - An Extraordinary Life) is a German docu-soap about the German entrepreneur Konny Reimann and his family, who emigrated to the USA. To live the American Dream, the family emigrated to the United States. At first, the family lived in the small town of Gainesville in Texas, but later Konny and his wife moved to Hawaii on the island of O'ahu. They own a sprawling estate there called "Konny Island", where they are accompanied by the camera team in their daily lives.

  • 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.

  • Wir sind jetzt
    Wir sind jetzt (2019)7.6

    The series is about 17-year-old Laura and her clique. They go through parties, love affairs, pregnancy fears and their first experiences with alcohol and other drugs. The death of a friend throws the carefree lives of the young people off track.

  • Grip - Das Motormagazin
    Grip - Das Motormagazin (2008)7.0

    Thrills, adrenaline, passion, speed, adventure - all this can be described in just four letters: GRIP! This superlative automotive magazine is always about one thing: Fun! The team around presenter and racing driver Matthias Malmedie has pure petrol in their blood and checks everything that has an engine for fun factor and power formula. "GRIP - Das Motormagazin" shows the hottest car trends every week, dares rapid tests and gives competent tips.

  • Hartz und Herzlich
    Hartz und Herzlich (2016)7.0

    They say people from the Ruhr area wear their 'heart on their sleeve'. The social documentary accompanies the sometimes oppressive everyday life of people from the Ruhr area for four months, but they always have their hearts in the right place.

  • Promi Frauentausch
    Promi Frauentausch (2013)6.0

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

  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (2000)3.5

  • Der Trödeltrupp - Das Geld liegt im Keller
    Der Trödeltrupp - Das Geld liegt im Keller (2009)N/A

    The junk troop - The Money Lies in the Basement is a RTL II documentary soap that helps people make money from their old items...The ebay valuer Sükrü Pehlivan, the antique dealer Mauro Corradino, the household dissolver and junk dealer Otto Schulte and formerly the student of psychology and antique dealer Antoine Richard act as moderators. In some episodes, the junk dealer Detlev Kümmel supports the team of moderators..

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • F4LKENB3RG – Mord im Internat?
    F4LKENB3RG – Mord im Internat? (2019)N/A

  • Love Island VIP
    Love Island VIP (2024)N/A

    The celebrity spin-off of the German dating show Love Island.