The Best TV Shows on RTP Play

Every RTP Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Premiering in 2010 and 2016, Direct Flight and Near Distance are among RTP Play’s most celebrated shows. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of RTP Play’s elite series, with our list refreshed for November 2025. RTP Play’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2010 to 2025.

  • 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.

  • Salto de Fé
    Salto de Fé (2024)10.0

  • Situações Delicadas
    Situações Delicadas (2025)9.5

  • 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.

  • Error 404
    Error 404 (2024)7.0

    Shaken by sadness, lack of motivation and apathy, Rita discovers an application on her cell phone that offers her the opportunity to live other people's lives. Feeling the need to make a radical change in her life, she decides to install the mysterious application called “Appy” and dive into the different experiences it offers. However, what Rita does not understand is that the errors in the application, still in the experimental phase, will trigger irreparable consequences in her life.

  • Hotel do Rio
    Hotel do Rio (2024)6.5

  • 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.

  • A Família Ventura
    A Família Ventura (2017)N/A

    In Vale da Figueira, the Ventura prepare themselves for the first time to spend Christmas without the company of their children and grandchildren. But these plans change a few days before Christmas, when Francisco is taken to the hospital for emergency. This unexpected event will bring everyone inside the same house. Together, they renew their family spirit by accepting the changes that these days of coexistence have brought.

  • 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.

  • O Americano
    O Americano (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

  • Casa-Abrigo
    Casa-Abrigo (2025)N/A

  • Star Sailors
    Star Sailors (2025)N/A

    The fearless race of the 1920's Portuguese aviation pioneers to cross the South Atlantic Ocean through aerial navigation, became an epic story of the modern age argonauts. In order to reach the stars - sailing is necessary- navigandum est.