The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1988 through to 2021, RTL II has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. For top-tier entertainment, RTL II delivered C.O.P.S. and Riding High in 1988 and 1995. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from May 2025 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Riding High
    Riding High (1995)9.0

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We Are Now
    We Are Now (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.

  • Love Island: Hot Flirts & True Love
    Love Island: Hot Flirts & True Love (2017)7.2

    On Love Island, a group of candidates called "Islander" live isolated from the outside world in a villa on Mallorca (Tenerife in spring 2021), under constant observation by video cameras. In order to stay in the villa, one must be linked to another "Islander", whether it is for love, friendship is the basis or for calculation (the couple remaining at the end receives 50,000 euros in prize money).

  • 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

  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (2000)3.5

  • Zuhause im Glück – Unser Einzug in ein neues Leben
    Zuhause im Glück – Unser Einzug in ein neues Leben (2005)N/A

  • 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.

  • MEK 8
    MEK 8 (2012)N/A

  • Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland
    Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland (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

  • Krass Schule – Die jungen Lehrer
    Krass Schule – Die jungen Lehrer (2018)N/A

  • Let’s Love – Eine Hütte voller Liebe
    Let’s Love – Eine Hütte voller Liebe (2021)N/A