The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

RTL II’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 1988 to 2021. Some of the best tv shows from RTL II include C.O.P.S. and Ottifants, airing in 1988 and 1993 respectively. As of June 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of RTL II’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • #CoupleChallenge – Das beste Team gewinnt
    #CoupleChallenge – Das beste Team gewinnt (2020)7.5

  • 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

    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)3.5

    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.

  • 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.

  • Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland
    Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland (2012)N/A

  • MEK 8
    MEK 8 (2012)N/A

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

  • 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

    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.

  • Daniela Katzenberger: Mit Lucas im Hochzeitsfieber
    Daniela Katzenberger: Mit Lucas im Hochzeitsfieber (2016)N/A

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