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The Best TV Shows on RTL+

Every RTL+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Across the timeline from 1988 to 2018, RTL+ has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Among RTL+’s finest offerings are Alles Nichts Oder?! and Stern TV, which debuted in 1988 and 1990, respectively. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of RTL+’s elite series, with our list refreshed for April 2025.

  • Das Strafgericht
    Das Strafgericht (2002)8.5

  • RTL Samstag Nacht
    RTL Samstag Nacht (1993)8.2

    RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped comedy in German television to a breakthrough and was a model for several later comedy shows. Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports telling about his death at the end of each episode. The name Karl Ranseier has become a catchphrase in Germany that has led to its own joke category of Ranseiers which are in widespread usage outside of the comedy origin.

  • Unter Uns
    Unter Uns (1994)7.2

    Unter uns is a German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL on 28 November 1994. Centered around the lives of the people in a residential house, which is set in the fictional Schillerallee in Cologne. Since the show debuted the baker's family Weigel is the series core family. Unter uns isn't based on a foreign soap opera like Verbotene Liebe or Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. After Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, the show was the second daily soap for RTL, followed years later in 2006 by Alles was zählt. The show aired its 3,500th episode on 30 December 2008.

  • Im Namen des Gesetzes
    Im Namen des Gesetzes (1994)7.0

  • 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe
    7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (1996)7.0

  • Stern TV
    Stern TV (1990)6.5

  • Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
    Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (1996)6.5

    A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

  • Alles Nichts Oder?!
    Alles Nichts Oder?! (1988)6.0

  • Let's Dance
    Let's Dance (2006)6.0

    German version of Dancing with the Stars, the reality competition in which celebrities perform choreographed dance routines which are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts and voted on by viewers.

  • Das Supertalent
    Das Supertalent (2007)6.0

    Das Supertalent is the German talent show and part of the internationally successful Got Talent franchise, presented by Marco Schreyl, who was joined by Daniel Hartwich from the second season onwards. Just like in all other versions of the franchise, auditions take place and the judges review their talent and then later the home audience votes in an election to deem who wins.

  • Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt
    Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt (1998)5.9

    Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt is a German television series.

  • Deutschland sucht den Superstar
    Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002)5.8

    Deutschland sucht den Superstar is a German reality talent show, also commonly known by its initials DSDS. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by English media mogul Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between the years of 2001 and 2003. Debuting to mediocre ratings in October 2002 on the RTL network, the show has since become one of the most successful shows on German television. The program aims to discover the best singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions in which viewer voting determines the winner. Voting is done through telephone and SMS text voting.

  • Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
    Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992)5.7

    Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.

  • Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
    Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997)4.5

    Drama set in a women's prison in Germany. Susanne Teubner, a sympathetic young woman who has killed her husband in an affect, is poorly advised by her lawyer and sentenced to life imprisonment for willful murder. The arrival in prison is a shock to her. Resigned and exhausted, she endures the degrading admission procedure. She doesn't notice that the young doctor Dr. Beck immediately felt more than professional interest for her.

  • Alles was zählt
    Alles was zählt (2006)4.5

    Alles was zählt is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on September 4, 2006. The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Julian Herzog, who signed her at the prestigious Steinkamp Sport and Wellness Center, run by the unscrupulous Steinkamp dynasty. Diana and Julian eventually became a couple, but in November 2007, Julian suffered a brain hemorrhage and died during their wedding. Diana remained in Essen until January 2009, when she left to join a skating centre in Halle. The story continues to revolve around the Steinkamp Sport and Wellness Centre and its quest to become a sporting powerhouse, as well as the lives of the characters who work at and around the Centre.

  • Die Wache
    Die Wache (1994)1.0

  • Stadtklinik
    Stadtklinik (1993)N/A

  • Dr. Stefan Frank - Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen
    Dr. Stefan Frank - Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen (1995)N/A

    Dr. Stefan Frank – Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen is a German television series.

  • Faszination Leben
    Faszination Leben (2009)N/A

  • Freundinnen - Jetzt erst recht
    Freundinnen - Jetzt erst recht (2018)N/A