The Best TV Shows on RTVE Play

Every RTVE Play Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from February 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. A broadcaster of distinction, RTVE Play has aired more than 20 shows between 1989 and 2025. Premiering in 1989 and 1990, El mundo de Juan Lobón and En Jaque are among RTVE Play’s most celebrated shows.

  • 4 estrellas
    4 estrellas (2023)8.1

  • Hasta el fin del mundo
    Hasta el fin del mundo (2025)8.0

  • Promises of Sand
    Promises of Sand (2019)7.7

    A young girl leaves the comfort of her home town to work for an NGO at a hospital in Libya. Adaptation of the novel by Laura Garzón.

  • Megamix brutal
    Megamix brutal (2024)7.7

    The story of how two friends, Ricardo Campoy and Miguel Degà, created a record empire in Barcelona in the eighties and how the wild rivalries in the Spanish dance music industry led them both to disaster.

  • Make Up Stars
    Make Up Stars (2023)7.3

    Makeup contest series presented by the dazzling Pilar Rubio. Eight contestants compete armed with gloss, shadows and blush, judged by MUA David Molina and designer and influencer Camila Redondo.

  • El asesino de la baraja
    El asesino de la baraja (2022)6.8

  • El mundo de Juan Lobón
    El mundo de Juan Lobón (1989)6.0

  • Ruiz-Mateos: el primer fenómeno viral
    Ruiz-Mateos: el primer fenómeno viral (2021)6.0

  • This Is Not Sweden
    This Is Not Sweden (2023)3.1

    Mariana and Samuel go to live in Vallvidrera, a mountain neighbourhood in Barcelona, to raise their children in a more authentic place, far from their respective painful childhoods. There, they find a community with the same aspirations. But when tragedy shakes the neighbourhood, they dismantle their ideal, the couple's certainties begin to waver and fear settles in, coming dangerously close to everything they were trying to escape.

  • En Jaque
    En Jaque (1990)N/A

  • Martes de Carnaval
    Martes de Carnaval (2009)N/A

    Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece of The Daughter of the Captain, a portrait of the crazy soldiers who returned home after losing the Spanish Colonies. In other occasion, they attend one of the limited performances of Valle-Inclán’s:The deceiving Mr. Friolera. They are just longing for the best premiere ever: the Second Spanish Republic, a drama on for a very short time. It was a beautiful dream thought, like the Esperpentos (strange-looking characters) of Valle-Inclán.

  • Tiempo de confesiones
    Tiempo de confesiones (2016)N/A

  • Late Xou con Marc Giró
    Late Xou con Marc Giró (2023)N/A

    Marc Giró presents a very entertaining late night show with interviews with prominent personalities from the world of cinema, theatre, music, television, literature and social activism in our national scene.

  • Pacto De Silencio, Santiago Corella El Nani Y La Mafia Policial
    Pacto De Silencio, Santiago Corella El Nani Y La Mafia Policial (2023)N/A

  • Territorio Gravedad
    Territorio Gravedad (2023)N/A

  • Al cielo con ella
    Al cielo con ella (2024)N/A

    The comedian and writer Henar Álvarez sits on the throne of 'Al cielo con ella', the new RTVE Play programme. A mischievous, irreverent, transgressive and vindictive interview space in the purest Henar style. The stage of the Quique San Francisco theatre in Madrid will witness the passage of popular guests with interviews full of humour in which the voices of women who have a lot to say will be heard. The music band 'Manny Calavera' will be in charge of setting the rhythm for a programme in which there will be no shortage of surprises.

  • Hope!
    Hope! (2025)N/A

    A future within our reach. Inspiring stories to solve the climate crisis.

  • La familia de la tele
    La familia de la tele (2025)N/A

  • Vive San Fermín
    Vive San Fermín (N/A)N/A

    Vive San Fermín” is RTVE’s dedicated television program broadcasting live, behind-the-scenes coverage and highlights of the San Fermín festival. It airs on La 1 and RTVE Play every morning during the festival period. From July 4 to July 15, it’s also featured round-the-clock on the special RTVE “Sanfermines” channel. The program covers all the daily events—run of the bulls, the opening chupinazo, special reports, and historical retrospectives—offering viewers a continuous immersion into the traditions and atmosphere of the famous Pamplona celebrations

  • Cuánto, cuánto, cuánto
    Cuánto, cuánto, cuánto (2025)N/A