The Best TV Shows on TVI

Every TVI Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of TVI’s elite series, with our list refreshed for August 2026. TVI’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2000 to 2025. Big Brother and Strawberries with Sugar represent the pinnacle of TVI’s programming, launching in 2000 and 2003.

  • Terra Forte
    Terra Forte (2025)9.2

    Presumed dead for nearly twenty years, Flor reappears in Azores with a revelation capable of shaking the past and reshaping the present: her disappearance was not an accident, as everyone believed. The reunion with those who thought they had lost her forever, including a former love, reopens deep wounds and sets in motion a dangerous quest for justice.

  • Secret Story - Desafio Final
    Secret Story - Desafio Final (2013)9.0

    Spin-off show from the reality show "Secret Story" where the best players fight each other to find special secrets and to win the cash prize.

  • A Protegida
    A Protegida (2025)8.2

    In the heart of the Alentejo countryside, Mariana and José Diogo are two children whose backgrounds could not be more different: she is the fruit of a loving relationship; he's an orphan. She has a safe haven in her family to run to when she gets hurt; he can only run to her.

  • A Impostora
    A Impostora (2016)8.0

    An airplane disappears mysteriously; on board was Verónica, the twin sister of Vitória, the victim of a fraud by a millionaire. Presumed dead, Verónica assumes the identity of her sister and plans to avenge herself on the entrepreneur's family.

  • Inspetor Max
    Inspetor Max (2004)7.0

    "Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando Luís). Jorge Mendes is a lonely man whose wife died when his children were still small. He works at the DIC of Setúbal, Department of Criminal Investigation, in the 1st season. The successful DIC team from Setúbal was invited to go to DECC (Special Department for Combating Crime) and started the 2nd season. His boss, Graça Madureira (Fátima Belo), after some cases resolved in the DECC, was invited to join Interpol. In the 2nd season, the place is occupied by actress Sílvia Rizzo. Max, Jorge and Sérgio, Jorge's best friend, constitute the victorious trio. A series based on mystery and case solving.

  • Remédio Santo
    Remédio Santo (2011)7.0

    Remédio Santo is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 18 May 2011.

  • A Teia
    A Teia (2018)7.0

    A man and a woman with no apparent connection are involved in a bizarre bank robbery, resulting in their death. Their children (Lara and Simão), faced with the impasse in the police investigation, decide to unravel the mystery that led to the tragedy. What they discover is just the tip of the skein. Other deaths follow, all unrelated to view and entangled in a mysterious web that seems to have no end. What will be the next target?

  • Festa é Festa
    Festa é Festa (2021)6.8

    A village in the interior of Portugal is preparing the best village festival ever, in the year that marks the centenary of its greatest benefactor. Everyone does their best in organizing the party always with something in mind: the inheritance of the elderly woman.

  • A Única Mulher
    A Única Mulher (2015)6.4

  • Strawberries with Sugar
    Strawberries with Sugar (2003)6.3

    Across several generations, groups of young Portuguese people navigate school life and summer holidays while dealing with friendships, first loves, rivalries, family conflicts and decisions that shape their future. Each season introduces new protagonists, schools and challenges, exploring themes related to adolescence, identity, responsibility and belonging. Sport, music, dance and other forms of expression accompany their journeys of growing up, marked by dreams, choices and ever-changing relationships.

  • Cacau
    Cacau (2024)5.7

    Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.

  • The Color of Love
    The Color of Love (2024)5.3

    Eva and her sisters live humbly in Lisbon, unaware that their lives are about to take an unexpected turn. When Gaspar, a wealthy businessman based in Angola, suddenly dies, he leaves his entire fortune to the three young women, who overnight become the owners of a great fortune and an entire estate in Angola. However, not everything will be a bed of roses: they will have to confront Talu, a young Angolan engineer who was excluded from Gaspar’s inheritance in favor of Eva. And despite being in opposite sides, neither Talu nor Eva will be able to resist the strong attraction they feel for each other. Among the breathtaking landscapes of Angola and the modern business world of Portugal, the young lovers will find themselves at the center of a web of antagonistic interests, in the dispute over Gaspar’s inheritance.

  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (2000)2.5

    Portuguese version of the reality competition which follows a group of HouseGuests living together 24 hours a day in the "Big Brother" house, isolated from the outside world but under constant surveillance with no privacy.

  • Love on Top
    Love on Top (2016)2.0

    Five single women and five single men, living in a luxurious mansion, seek for love. They are willing to do anything to conquer the Top Girl or the Top Boy. Every day, they will be evaluated by the Top Girl and the Top Boy, who at the end of every week select two men and two women for eviction.

  • Queridas Feras
    Queridas Feras (2003)N/A

  • Quinta das Celebridades
    Quinta das Celebridades (2004)N/A

  • Meu Amor
    Meu Amor (2009)N/A

    Meu Amor is a Portuguese telenovela which aired from October 19, 2009 to October 23, 2010 on TVI. The show won the 2010 International Emmy award for best telenovela.

  • Deixa Que Te Leve
    Deixa Que Te Leve (2009)N/A

  • Sedução
    Sedução (2010)N/A

  • Doce Tentação
    Doce Tentação (2012)N/A

    Doce Tentação is a Portuguese telenovela that started airing on TVI on 8 January 2012.