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The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of April 2025, showcases over 20 of RTL II’s highest-rated series. For top-tier entertainment, RTL II delivered Ottifants and Riding High in 1993 and 1995. Boasting a rich catalog, RTL II features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1993 to 2023.

  • 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.

  • 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 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).

  • Genial daneben
    Genial daneben (2023)7.0

  • 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

  • Welt der Wunder - Schau dich schlau
    Welt der Wunder - Schau dich schlau (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

  • 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

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