The Best TV Shows on VPRO

Every VPRO Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Icons of VPRO, Pat & Mat and Jiskefet made their debut in 1979 and 1990, setting industry standards. A broadcaster of distinction, VPRO has aired more than 20 shows between 1979 and 2024. Check out the most acclaimed shows on VPRO, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for June 2025.

  • Jiskefet
    Jiskefet (1990)10.0

  • Happy Christmas
    Happy Christmas (2014)10.0

    What do you do when you lose everything and have to start all over again? Ten-year-old Lucas, the middle child of a wealthy family, lives in an expensive neighborhood in a large house, equipped with every luxury. Everything changes completely when Lucas, while searching for his Sinterklaas surprise, finds a large box of unpaid bills. Father Maarten turns out to have enormous financial problems and the family loses everything. The family is evicted and, with the help of their cleaner Nina, finds shelter in an old office building among other new poor people. While father (Jeroen Spitzenberger) and mother (Hadewych Minis) have a hard time with themselves and each other, and big brother Thomas (15) and sister Emma (7) have a terrible time getting used to the new situation, Lucas tries to make the best of it with the highest goal: a Merry Christmas for the whole family.

  • Debiteuren Crediteuren
    Debiteuren Crediteuren (1995)9.0

  • Missie Aarde
    Missie Aarde (2015)9.0

  • The terrible eighties
    The terrible eighties (2022)8.5

  • Andere Tijden
    Andere Tijden (2000)8.0

  • Pat & Mat
    Pat & Mat (1979)7.8

    Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek.

  • Zondag met Lubach
    Zondag met Lubach (2014)7.7

    Sunday with Lubach is a satirical television program of the VPRO network that is presented by Arjen Lubach.

  • Backlight
    Backlight (2002)7.4

    Tegenlicht in Dutch or Backlight in English is a series of television documentaries by the VPRO, a Dutch public broadcasting organisation. Backlight "aims to grasp the quintessence of prominent trends and developments" in the practice of critical journalism, and tries to improve understanding of the intricate inner workings of our modern society.

  • Zenith
    Zenith (2017)7.0

    Fay (14) and Boris (10) discover that their parents secretly replaced themselves by robots. Claudia and Joost each have demanding jobs and even though they try very hard, they are not able to combine their jobs with spending quality time with their children. Boris, Fay, Claudia and Joost slowly realize they need each other as a family and when the robots become uncontrollable, they can only clear up the mess by working together.

  • TreurTeeVee
    TreurTeeVee (2017)6.0

  • Toren C
    Toren C (2008)5.0

    Margôt Ros and Maike Meijer play 40 different characters working in office tower Toren C, an office hell of eight flours, filled with a plethora of ridiculous situations.

  • Laura H.
    Laura H. (2024)5.0

    Laura H, The teenager from Zoetermeer takes on a new identity in her search for herself and travels with her husband Ibrahim and two children to the caliphate in Syria. When she shows up at the border in 2016 and says she has escaped and regrets it, doubts about her motives are great. Why did Laura choose to travel to the 'Caliphate'?

  • Draadstaal
    Draadstaal (2007)1.5

    Draadstaal is a satirical sketch comedy television program of the VPRO, and CCCP 2 Dutch production company and broadcaster. It was created by CCCP and Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Dennis van de Ven. The show features lots of recurring stereotypical characters. The program is reminiscent of the work of Van Kooten en De Bie.

  • TV7
    TV7 (2002)N/A

  • Wintergasten
    Wintergasten (2007)N/A

  • 24 uur met...
    24 uur met... (2008)N/A

  • Beagle: In Darwin's Wake
    Beagle: In Darwin's Wake (2009)N/A

  • Brommer op zee
    Brommer op zee (2021)N/A

  • Koolhoven Presents
    Koolhoven Presents (2024)N/A

    A manless world, a nuclear missile on Amsterdam, a collective brainwash, and suffering as a recipe for success. Six filmmakers drag the viewer into their most terrifying fantasies.