The Best TV Shows on RTP Play

Every RTP Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of RTP Play’s elite series, with our list refreshed for July 2026. Direct Flight and Near Distance represent the pinnacle of RTP Play’s programming, launching in 2010 and 2016. Boasting a rich catalog, RTP Play features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2010 to 2026.

  • 5Starz
    5Starz (2021)10.0

    5Starz follows the lives of five friends who live together and deliver food. Each one of them is overcoming a traumatic experience from their past while they speed through the city delivering food to starving clients.

  • Portuguese Problems
    Portuguese Problems (2024)10.0

    Portuguese Problems is a highly anticipated six-episode sketch comedy series that is scheduled to air on March 18, 2024 on Radio Television Portugal International as well as the RTP Play App the following day). This uproarious sketch comedy show parodies well known genres and puts them through the lenses of first generation kids of immigrants, delving into the humorous and heartwarming experiences of growing up in an ethnic home.

  • Taskmaster Portugal
    Taskmaster Portugal (2022)8.6

    Five public figures are challenged by “Taskmaster” Vasco Palmeirim and his assistant Nuno Markl to overcome a series of fun tests with a small dose of madness.

  • #CasaDoCais
    #CasaDoCais (2018)8.5

    A controversial and humorous series about five very peculiar friends. Ema comes to Lisbon and shares a house with four eccentric friends. Their day-to-day, and as nights, are marked by fun stories, without taboos, about being young in the new millennium (such as sex, drugs, job search, self-discovery and maturity).

  • Until Life Do Us Part
    Until Life Do Us Part (2021)7.1

    Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

  • A Criação
    A Criação (2017)7.0

    A fable with people and furrys about the creative industry and the commercial arts.

  • Amnésia
    Amnésia (2017)7.0

    Police thriller that tells the story of Joana Almeida, a young successful blogger. On the morning of the publication of her first novel she wakes up with her boyfriend Carlos death in their bed.

  • Cold Haven
    Cold Haven (2025)7.0

    Maria is a Portuguese woman who emigrates to Vestmannaeyjar, a small and remote island in Iceland, in search of a better life for herself and her teenage daughter, Bela. Away from a past marked by domestic violence and deep secrets, she looks for freedom and a place to be herself. Six months after her arrival, Maria is found lifeless. Her violent death shocks the isolated community and exposes the secrets everyone is keeping. The investigation is placed in the hands of Soffía an Icelandic detective who, as she immerses in the investigation, faces her own crossroads, trying to balance professional duty and the ghosts of her past.

  • Lume
    Lume (2025)4.3

    In the quaint Galician village of Seara, journalist Lucía returns to probe a forest fire eerily tied to her family's dark past.

  • Red Light
    Red Light (2019)3.0

    Red Light is a TV series created by Patrícia Muller & directed by Marco Leão & André Santos about the true story of a group of women from Bragança that in 2003 rebelled against the presence of Brazilian immigrant prostitutes that were having a social and moral impact on the life of this small town.

  • Direct Flight
    Direct Flight (2010)N/A

    Life at 500 mph... Patrícia, Marta, Yara and Weza are flight attendants who share a close friendship travelling between Portugal and Luanda. Filled with humour, strength and hope, these four friends have each other’s back unconditionally, in their highs and lows. As they’re hitting 30, new concerns come up, which they put off, such as marriage, motherhood and their own careers. When confronted with their first big disappointments in their adult lives, they’ll start to question the way they saw their future play out up until then... And the men in their lives as well... Their odd work hours and the distance that separates them leave little room for them getting together so, when their days off match and their flight schedule permitting, they get together and up to speed with each other. When everything in their lives seems to be decided for them, they’ll end up realizing that each day can turn into a new start after all.

  • Near Distance
    Near Distance (2016)N/A

    A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.

  • InstaVerse
    InstaVerse (2020)N/A

    Maria discovers a portal into the posts of her favorite influencer.

  • A Vida Privada dos Livros
    A Vida Privada dos Livros (2021)N/A

  • 1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
    1936 - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (2022)N/A

  • Sempre
    Sempre (2024)N/A

    Half a century of dictatorship came to an end on April 25, 1974. The main protagonists, and the unfolding of events, are duly and meticulously portrayed. But hundreds, perhaps thousands of episodes of tension and fear, courage and adrenaline, pain and loss, fury and dreams were experienced by anonymous citizens during the intense hours that changed the country.

  • The Cowboy
    The Cowboy (2024)N/A

    Early 80’s. A group of criminal’s spreads terror across the Algarve with more than 20 bank robberies. The gang is led by a man they call "The Doctor" and a carpenter who earns the nickname of "The Cowboy". Captured and sentenced to 18 years in prison he becomes the protagonist of the bloodiest escape in Portuguese prison history.

  • PRISMA
    PRISMA (2024)N/A

  • Novas Narrativas de Caça
    Novas Narrativas de Caça (2026)N/A

  • Homens de Honra
    Homens de Honra (2026)N/A