The Best TV Shows on RTL+

Every RTL+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Premiering in 1956 and 1989, Eurovision Song Contest and Blauer Panther are among RTL+’s most celebrated shows. A broadcaster of distinction, RTL+ has aired more than 20 shows between 1956 and 2021. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from March 2026 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • RTL Samstag Nacht
    RTL Samstag Nacht (1993)8.0

    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.

  • German Television Award
    German Television Award (1999)8.0

  • Das Strafgericht
    Das Strafgericht (2002)8.0

  • Der Clown
    Der Clown (1998)7.3

    Der Clown was a German television series that ran between 21 April 1998 and 11 October 2001. It ran for 46 episodes, and starred Sven Martinek, Diana Frank, Thomas Anzenhofer and Volkmar Kleinert. Der Clown was also a 2005 film.

  • Sisi
    Sisi (2021)7.3

    "Sisi" follows the extraordinary life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Modern, honest, and authentic. Told from the perspective of her closest confidants, the series takes a new look at the empress' life and reveals a multi-layered woman.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • 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

  • Die Cleveren
    Die Cleveren (1998)6.8

    Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.

  • Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
    Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police (1996)6.6

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

  • Stern TV
    Stern TV (1990)6.5

    Current studio guests, exciting backgrounds, moving stories, spectacular studio events and captivating reports - presenters pull all this and much more live from the grab bag of German television every week.

  • Balko
    Balko (1995)5.8

    Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.

  • Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
    Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992)5.4

    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.

  • Let's Dance
    Let's Dance (2006)5.4

    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.

  • Die ultimative Chartshow
    Die ultimative Chartshow (2003)5.0

  • Alles was zählt
    Alles was zählt (2006)5.0

    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.

  • Shopping Queen
    Shopping Queen (2012)4.0

    "Shopping Queen" is a styling documentary in which five women compete against each other on five consecutive days each week to become the woman with the best style and the best sense of fashion.

  • Die Wache
    Die Wache (1994)1.0

  • Blauer Panther
    Blauer Panther (1989)N/A

  • ECHO-Verleihung
    ECHO-Verleihung (1992)N/A