The Best TV Shows on VRT CANVAS

The Scheldepeloton tells the story of five young riders from Ghent: Wouter Weylandt, Iljo Keisse, Dimitri De Fauw, Kurt Hovelijnck and Bert De Backer. They get to know each other on their training trips along the Scheldt and fight together for the same dream: to become a professional cyclist. One by one, they make the dream come true, but the road to fame is fraught with hurdles, drama and tragedy.

Albatross is a tragicomic TV show, about ten obese people who participate in a fourteen-day camp in the Ardennes to lose weight.

Six-part documentary series about a number of Belgian soldiers on a mission in Afghanistan. It is an observing, but also critical series that looks at the lives of the soldiers through the eyes of photographer Bas Bogaerts.

Sofie Lemaire and Bent Van Looy take an open, eager and curious look at culture and cultural events. Culture in the broadest sense of the word, live from the heart of Antwerp, Belgium with weekly guests from home and abroad, concerts and performances.

In the series My Youth Judge, Phara de Aguirre returns to the youth court with young adults who were once judged by a youth judge, to look at their file and ask their youth judge the questions they are left with. They also visit the institutions where they stayed or people who were important in their youth. For the series, it was also possible - and this is exceptional - to attend the hearings where the youth judge has to decide on today's young people.

Basisschool Balder is a hyperrealistic and often moving dipslay of running a school in Brussels. It's a four-part documentary series in which the school staff opens their hearts to Brussels youth and the parents involved, displaying great openness and vulnerability to the VRT Canvas camera, which followed them for a year as a fly-on-the-wall.