The Best TV Shows on VTM

Every VTM Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, VTM has aired more than 20 shows between 1991 and 2024. Icons of VTM, De Kotmadam and Familie made their debut in 1991 and 1991, setting industry standards. Discover the best of VTM with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for August 2025.

  • LouisLouise
    LouisLouise (2008)8.0

    LouisLouise is a Flemish soap opera based on the Argentine success Lalola format and has been broadcast since 24 September 2008 on vtm. It is the successor of the series Sara.

  • Milo
    Milo (2024)8.0

    The telenovella 'Milo' is a modern musical fairy tale. The series tells the story of Milo, a very talented baker's daughter with a golden voice, who is forced to hide her talent from the outside world. No matter how hard she dreams of a life full of singing and music.

  • Russian Dolls: Sex Trade
    Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)7.3

    Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.

  • Lisa
    Lisa (2021)6.9

  • Lili and Marleen
    Lili and Marleen (1994)6.8

    Lili en Marleen is a television series about the fortunes of the residents of café De Lichttoren from World War II until the end of the 1960s in Antwerp (Belgium). The series is based on the play of the same name by Walter Van de Velde, which was first performed by the Traveling People's Theater in 1987.

  • Code 37
    Code 37 (2009)6.7

    Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her mother.

  • 13 Commandments
    13 Commandments (2018)6.7

    A serial killer reverts to the 10 commandments in order to kick society a conscience with his crimes.

  • Fair Trade
    Fair Trade (2021)6.6

    Walter Wilson (Kevin Janssens) and Robin De Rover (Ella-June Henrard) once started their careers in the police force with great dedication and noble ideals, but too often saw months of intensive and dangerous detective work lost due to what they considered irrelevant procedural errors, dexterity of expensive lawyers and dubious decisions of foreign judges. They are increasingly colouring outside the lines during their patrols: for example, they tip criminals off about future police actions and get heavily paid for them. Wilson is also addicted (women, booze, drugs...) and that makes him incalculable. When he is suspended from the police force after repeated conflicts, he looks for even more rapprochement with the criminal environment, but in the meantime is tipsy game.

  • Thieves of the Wood
    Thieves of the Wood (2020)6.3

    Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 18th-century Belgium.

  • Spoed
    Spoed (2000)6.2

    Spoed is a Belgian action drama TV series produced in the Dutch language in Belgium since 2000. The series is also shown on both Flemish/Belgian TV and Dutch TV. The series is directed by Johan Thiels and Guy Thys. The series has produced 217 episodes to date. It may be compared to the American TV programs ER or Chicago Hope.

  • Familie
    Familie (1991)6.1

    'Familie' is the longest running Belgian soap opera. The Van den Bossches originally had an electronics company, later a holding company that included a clothing chain and a sandwich shop. In the meantime, we closely follow the personal lives of the Van den Bossches and their entourage. Grandma Anna and all her children and grandchildren have been through a lot over time and it doesn't look like their lives will become calmer any time soon.

  • Sara
    Sara (2007)6.0

    Sara De Roose, a business economics graduate, passed with honours at the university but has trouble finding a job—until she comes across an assistant job in a Belgian fashion company, called "Présence".

  • De Kotmadam
    De Kotmadam (1991)5.7

    'De Kotmadam' was a classic Flemish comedy television series, that aired from 1991 to 2024, meaning the show is the longest running Belgian sitcom in terms of time and amounts of episodes and seasons. The series revolves around Jeanne Piens, who owns a small sweet shop in the centre of Leuven and rents out several rooms of her house to students studying in the city. She is a caring type and loves all her students. Her husband Jef Liefooghe works for the city's gardening department. Except for the last season, their friend Odilon Bonheur, a naïve warden in the local prison, visits regularly to give or seek help.

  • Zone Stad
    Zone Stad (2003)5.6

    Zone Stad is a Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Antwerp. In the series, police officers solve various crimes, which are shown as realistically as possible.

  • Aspe
    Aspe (2004)5.5

  • Wittekerke
    Wittekerke (1993)4.5

  • David
    David (2009)4.0

  • Ella
    Ella (2010)1.0

  • Kabouter Plop
    Kabouter Plop (1997)N/A

    Kabouter Plop is the eponymous protagonist in a children's television series by Studio 100. The television series is directed by Bart Van Leemputten. Most episodes last about five minutes and are set in Plop's milk inn or in Kabouter forest. The stories often involve pranks by naughty Kabouter Klus. Each episode starts with Plop lying in bed and reviewing what happened the past day. At the end of the episode he says he goes to "Kabouter dream land". Most episodes contain a moral.

  • Binnenstebuiten
    Binnenstebuiten (2013)N/A