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The Best TV Shows on Showmax

Every Showmax Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Highlighting Showmax’s quality programming, Suidooster and Die Byl stand out, premiering in 2015 and 2016. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from April 2025 that includes over 20 unique series. Showcasing over 20 shows from 2015 up until 2024, Showmax stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.4

    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.

  • Adulting
    Adulting (2023)7.2

    Four varsity friends, whose strong bond has held them together even as their journeys in life have taken them in very different directions. As they try to find love and success in Johannesburg after university.

  • SNL Polska
    SNL Polska (2017)7.0

  • 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.

  • Exorcist
    Exorcist (2017)6.7

    Bogdan Boner is a true jack-of-all-trades: handyman, house painter, lawn mower... and self-taught exorcist. He has yet to met a demon he can't kill.

  • 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.

  • Catch Me a Killer
    Catch Me a Killer (2024)6.4

    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.

  • 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.

  • The Real Housewives of Lagos
    The Real Housewives of Lagos (2022)6.1

    The show focused on the luxury lives in the Lagos socialites, from shopping sprees, parties, traveling, and competition within their social circles.

  • Kobiety mafii
    Kobiety mafii (2018)5.2

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

  • The Real Housewives of Durban
    The Real Housewives of Durban (2021)5.0

    The Real Housewives of Durban (abbreviated RHODurban) is a South African reality television series that focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women living in Durban, South Africa.

  • Pulse
    Pulse (2022)1.0

    An Electromagnetic Pulse bomb disables a secure building and disrupts the bio-electric signals in everyone's minds, trapping a group of video game designers and turning each floor into a psychotic battlefield. Survival is not just a game.

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