The Best TV Shows on KykNET

Every KykNET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Check out the most acclaimed shows on KykNET, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for March 2026. Highlighting KykNET’s quality programming, Villa Rosa and Binnelanders stand out, premiering in 2004 and 2005. Across the timeline from 2004 to 2024, KykNET has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Proesstraat
    Proesstraat (2010)9.0

    Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.

  • Hotel
    Hotel (2016)9.0

    Fictionally in the heart of Mpumalanga, in the small town of Fransenburg, stands the Fransen Hotel. Once the town's pride. Once a beacon. Once. Now barely a one out of five star on Trip Advisor. Ferdie Kruger, the middle-aged hotel manager and his small-town staff, struggle to keep the substandard hotel's doors open.

  • Fynskrif
    Fynskrif (2018)9.0

    A legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.

  • Een Keer Om Die Son
    Een Keer Om Die Son (2024)9.0

    Over the course of a year, the Van Wyk's mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.

  • Getroud Met Rugby
    Getroud Met Rugby (2009)8.5

    Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various interconnected scandals.

  • Diepe Waters
    Diepe Waters (2022)8.2

    A South African, Afrikaans-language telenovela which takes place in and around a competitive swimming club, Die Swartmarlyne.

  • Bravo!
    Bravo! (2012)8.0

    A local weekly entertainment news magazine show.

  • 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.

  • Die Boekklub
    Die Boekklub (2016)8.0

    The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.

  • Die Spreeus
    Die Spreeus (2019)8.0

    Die Spreeus (The Starlings) is a South Africa, Afrikaans-language supernatural crime procedural series which tells the story of two fearless detectives - Bas Koorts and Beatrice Mack - who investigate a new phenomenon each week and try to solve crimes... even in worlds that are not our own.

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.2

    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.

  • Jukebox
    Jukebox (2008)7.0

    Jukebox is a South African Afrikaans-language music video request television show in which a selection of viewer's choice music videos are played.

  • Boer Soek 'n Vrou
    Boer Soek 'n Vrou (2008)7.0

    Boer Soek 'n Vrou is a reality program based on the international series "Farmer Wants A Wife". The farmers for the program are selected from hundreds of applications and then introduced to the public in a special program on KykNET earlier in the year. Singles then get the chance to send a romantic love letter to the farmer of their choice. Based on the letters that the farmers receive, they choose 10 potential life partners that they would like to get to know better on the program.

  • Spoorloos
    Spoorloos (2018)7.0

    Spoorloos is a South African crime drama anthology television series created by Ilse van Hemert and developed by Ochre Moving Pictures. The first season is based on the 2014 novel Daddy Long Legs by Vernon W. Baumann and set in the fictional town of Digtersdal in the Eastern Cape. Each subsequent season follows a new small town and cast of characters.

  • Lui Maar Op, Belinda
    Lui Maar Op, Belinda (2019)7.0

    Lui Maar Op, Belinda is a South African, Afrikaans-language television sitcom which revolves around a group of older shop staff and their bumbling young security chief at a general dealer in George.

  • Villa Rosa
    Villa Rosa (2004)6.0

    In Bloemfontein there is a guest house where the walls have ears and where there is daily drama, intrigue and also a lot of comedy.

  • Molly & Wors
    Molly & Wors (2009)6.0

    Molly en Wors is a situation comedy (sitcom) that was broadcast on kykNET from 2009 to 2011. The program revolves around the dysfunctional Visagie family who live in a luxurious Tuscan Villa within Johannesburg. The family members consist of Wors, Molly, Vaatjie and Blapsie. The underlying humor lies in irony, the exposure of double standards, allusion, as well as the "parvenu" that comes out.

  • Vallei van Sluiers
    Vallei van Sluiers (2010)6.0

    A South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three well-known Boland fruit farming families - the De Bruyns, the Roberts' and the Van Rhijns - and the people who are drawn into their disasters, quarrels and scandals.

  • Binnelanders
    Binnelanders (2005)5.5

    A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.

  • Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie
    Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie (2016)3.0

    Getroud met Rugby: Die Sepie is a South African soap opera based on the feature film and later drama series Getroud met Rugby by Deon Opperman, which is set amongst a rugby-playing community.