The Best TV Shows on KykNET

Every KykNET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

KykNET has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 2004 and as recent as 2025. Icons of KykNET, Villa Rosa and Binnelanders made their debut in 2004 and 2005, setting industry standards. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from January 2026 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Sterlopers
    Sterlopers (2014)9.0

    Sterlopers is a South African musical youth drama television series created and written by Deon Opperman and produced by Bottom Line Entertainment which follows the fortunes of a group of young people who are all trying to make it in the entertainment industry, as viewers get an inside view into the secrets that are to be found behind the scenes of success.

  • Edik van Nantes
    Edik van Nantes (2015)9.0

    Just outside Nantes, on the le Roux family farm, stands a historic stone house, uninhabited for decades. In this series, Nataniël and Erik finally transform the house into a holiday home for the whole family, making a play area for all the godchildren and grandchildren and installing a free-standing kitchen.

  • Projek Dina
    Projek Dina (2020)9.0

    A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.

  • 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.

  • Hotel
    Hotel (2016)8.5

    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.

  • 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.

  • Niggies
    Niggies (2025)8.0

    An Afrikaans drama series based on the double murders in 1965 of Issie Fourie and Petro Nel in the Free State province town of Odendaalsrus who were both abducted and murdered. Issie's brother, André decided to bring the perpetrator to justice - something that took 18 years.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Donkerland
    Donkerland (2013)5.0

    The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

  • 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.