The Best TV Shows on Showmax

Every Showmax Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Peruse our comprehensive roster of Showmax’s top shows, encompassing over 20 distinct series as of July 2025. For top-tier entertainment, Showmax delivered Suidooster and Die Byl in 2015 and 2016. Showmax has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2015 all the way to 2025.

  • Tali's Wedding Diary
    Tali's Wedding Diary (2017)9.0

    Tali’s Wedding Diary follows a self-obsessed Sandton princess who’s moved to Cape Town and is filming the build-up to her wedding to her property-agent fiancé Darren.

  • Wyfie
    Wyfie (2024)9.0

    An edgy, youthful and urban Afrikaans drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and how they walk the thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive.

  • Reënboogrant
    Reënboogrant (2025)9.0

    Buckle up for an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the world of authentic teenage drama, family conflicts, love, aspirations and fierce rivalries. An adaption based on Louise van Niekerk's gripping coming-of-age book series.

  • Troukoors
    Troukoors (2021)8.5

    A South African, Afrikaans-language comedy series which evolves after a freak accident sets a wedding planner on an unexpected path. Together with her friends she navigates life and love while wondering if the perfect person, and day, really exists.

  • Die Byl
    Die Byl (2016)8.0

    The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.

  • Spinners
    Spinners (2023)8.0

    Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang. Disgusted with gang life, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an extreme motorsport. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.

  • The Chairman's Ear
    The Chairman's Ear (2017)7.5

  • Spooksoeker
    Spooksoeker (2024)7.5

    When Warno Alberts turns 15, he suddenly becomes aware of ghosts in his dorpie - and it's now his job to banish them.

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.2

    Suidooster is a South African television soap opera produced by Suidooster Films which revolves around a matriarch, her family, friends and the people of Suidooster, a small shopping and business centre in the fictional Cape Town suburb of Ruiterbosch.

  • The Mire
    The Mire (2018)6.8

    The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

  • Catch Me a Killer
    Catch Me a Killer (2024)6.5

    Follow South Africa’s first forensic and investigative psychologist, Micki Pistorius (played by Charlotte Hope), as she studies the minds of South Africa's serial killers. Catch Me A Killer is an adaptation of Micki's autobiography that details her work as the first female criminal profiler in the country, which is brought to life as the events are depicted in the series.

  • Trackers
    Trackers (2019)6.4

    Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.

  • Koek
    Koek (2024)6.3

    When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

  • Dam
    Dam (2021)6.2

    Set in an Eastern Cape farming community, the story follows Yola who returns home from Chile for her father's funeral, only to be met by the ghosts of her past.

  • Kobiety mafii
    Kobiety mafii (2018)5.2

    Story of idealistic police officers in a deadly struggle with ruthless organized crime syndicates.

  • Botoks
    Botoks (2018)3.4

  • Empini
    Empini (2024)3.0

    A vengeful daughter makes it her mission to repay het father's betrayal. She infiltrate's the shady world of VIP security to face a man who is hardened by political enemies.

  • Lekarze na start
    Lekarze na start (2017)N/A

  • The Girl from St. Agnes
    The Girl from St. Agnes (2019)N/A

    Dark secrets are revealed after a tragic event at an elite boarding school sets off a search for the truth.

  • Crime and Justice
    Crime and Justice (2021)N/A