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The Best TV Shows on RTL+

Every RTL+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Among RTL+’s finest offerings are Bambi Awards and Dall-As, which debuted in 1948 and 1985, respectively. From 1948 through to 2021, RTL+ has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from January 2025 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Maple Avenue
    Maple Avenue (2007)10.0

    Focused on a woman after the death of the father of her two children, who, plagued by financial worries, moves to the big city of Düsseldorf to start a new life. The series was discontinued due to low ratings.

  • Bambi Awards
    Bambi Awards (1948)9.0

    The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

  • Das Strafgericht
    Das Strafgericht (2002)8.5

  • Sisi
    Sisi (2021)7.5

    "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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Abschnitt 40
    Abschnitt 40 (2001)6.2

    Abschnitt 40 was a German police television series broadcast between May 21 2001 and 2006. It was aired on RTL Television.

  • 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.

  • Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
    Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992)5.9

    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.

  • Die Camper
    Die Camper (1997)5.6

  • Das Amt
    Das Amt (1997)5.3

    Das Amt was a German comedy television series which aired between 1997 to 2002 on RTL. It was created by Dietmar Jacobs.

  • 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

  • Dall-As
    Dall-As (1985)N/A

  • Blauer Panther
    Blauer Panther (1989)N/A

  • Stadtklinik
    Stadtklinik (1993)N/A

  • SK-Babies
    SK-Babies (1996)N/A

    SK-Babies is a German television series.