The Best TV Shows on NPO 1

Every NPO 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

NPO 1 has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1956 all the way to 2024. Among NPO 1’s finest offerings are Eurovision Song Contest and Oppassen!!!, which debuted in 1956 and 1991, respectively. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from September 2025 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • Even tot Hier
    Even tot Hier (2019)8.8

    Niels van der Laan and Jeroen Woe literally make a performance of the week every week.

  • Junior Eurovision Song Contest
    Junior Eurovision Song Contest (2003)8.5

    The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong, is a song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003 and is open exclusively to broadcasters that are members of the EBU. It is held in a different European city each year, however the same city can host the contest more than once.

  • Oogappels
    Oogappels (2019)8.2

    Four different families in a medium-sized Dutch city are followed. Their children attend the same high school. The parents all have their own way of raising children. But for all of them it is true that they set the bar very high for themselves and their little ones: life must be perfect above all!

  • Wie is de Mol?
    Wie is de Mol? (1999)8.0

    Ten candidates have to complete assignments to earn money. However, one of the group members is the Mole. The Mole's goal is to make the assignments fail and keep the amount of money earned as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the Mole is and need to unmask them. At the end of every episode, the candidates take a multiple-choice test about the mole's identity. The person who gives the least amount of correct answers is "executed" and must leave. This process continues until only two contestants and the Mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and they get all of the money earned in previous stages of the game.

  • Penoza
    Penoza (2010)7.7

    Carmen, the daughter of a notorious Amsterdam drug lord, reluctantly takes charge of the family's smuggling business in order to clear her husband's debts.

  • Flikken Rotterdam
    Flikken Rotterdam (2016)7.7

    Flikken Rotterdam takes place in Rotterdam, and is after Flikken Maastricht the second Dutch spin-off of the Flemish show Flikken.

  • Swanenburg
    Swanenburg (2021)7.5

    When patriarch Jack Praal is confronted with his biggest fear and his youngest son Dirk is linked to the death of a woman, the family gets trapped into a web of intrigue and betrayal. During the course of five weeks the series follows the family members who put their own interests aside in order to save everything. But not everyone is playing a fair game, which seems to result in the inevitable downfall of the once so close Praal family.

  • Een Huis Vol
    Een Huis Vol (N/A)7.5

  • The Jewish Council
    The Jewish Council (2024)7.5

    In 1940s Amsterdam, Jewish Council co-chairman David Cohen and his daughter Virrie have their bond tested as they pursue increasingly opposing ways of safeguarding their community under Nazi rule.

  • De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach
    De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (2022)7.4

    Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

  • Eurovision Song Contest
    Eurovision Song Contest (1956)7.2

    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

  • Toen was geluk heel gewoon
    Toen was geluk heel gewoon (1994)6.8

    On January 2, 1994 the Dutch KRO television started an comic TV-show, based on the American sitcom 'The Honeymooners'. The scripts of these series were translated and edited by Gerard Cox and Sjoerd Pleijsier, two of the main actors. From the start of the fourth season they started to write their own episodes. The series are taking place in the south of Rotterdam, late fifties. The last season of the series took place in 1976.

  • Oppassen!!!
    Oppassen!!! (1991)6.7

    Sitcom about two grandfathers taking care of their grandchildren, so their children can focus on their careers.

  • Dit Was Het Nieuws
    Dit Was Het Nieuws (1996)6.5

    Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

  • Van der Valk
    Van der Valk (2020)6.3

    Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a series of high-profile cases immersed in the worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism and the fashion industry.

  • NOS Studio Voetbal
    NOS Studio Voetbal (2002)0.5

  • Maestro
    Maestro (2012)N/A

  • MoleTalk
    MoleTalk (2016)N/A

    Immediately after The Mole you can watch MolTalk, live from VondelCS in Amsterdam. In these commentary's, Marlijn Weerdenburg and Splinter Chabot discuss hints, tasks and theory's with former candidates and other guests.

  • Matthijs gaat door
    Matthijs gaat door (2020)N/A

    Matthijs looks back in surprise. With humor, music and other surprises.

  • ARIA
    ARIA (2021)N/A