The Best TV Shows on RTL II

Every RTL II Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1988 through to 2020, RTL II has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Among RTL II’s finest offerings are C.O.P.S. and Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung, which debuted in 1988 and 1994, respectively. Discover the best of RTL II with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for November 2026.

  • C.O.P.S.
    C.O.P.S. (1988)8.0

    C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment. This cartoon, which ran from 1988–1989, used the tag line: "Fighting crime in a future time, protecting Empire City from Big Boss and his gang of crooks". In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings as CyberCOPS, the name change due to the 1989 debut of the unrelated primetime reality show of the same name. The show was based on Hasbro's 1988 line of action figures called C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks.

  • Die Wollnys - Eine schrecklich große Familie!
    Die Wollnys - Eine schrecklich große Familie! (2011)8.0

    The programme accompanies the everyday life of the Wollny extended family from Neuss (Germany).

  • Love Island: Hot Flirts & True Love
    Love Island: Hot Flirts & True Love (2017)7.8

    On Love Island, a group of candidates called "Islander" live isolated from the outside world in a villa on Mallorca (Tenerife in spring 2021), under constant observation by video cameras. In order to stay in the villa, one must be linked to another "Islander", whether it is for love, friendship is the basis or for calculation (the couple remaining at the end receives 50,000 euros in prize money).

  • Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand
    Kampf der Realitystars – Schiffbruch am Traumstrand (2020)7.8

    The candidates live for four weeks in a “sala”, an open bamboo hut, on a tropical beach bay on Phuket. In various games they fight for the title “Realitystar 2020” and for a prize of 50,000 euros. In the course of each episode, additional candidates join the candidate field. At the “Hour of Truth”, the followers have the power to elect two of the candidates who have been drafted before them from the show and are protected from being voted out even at their first “Hour of Truth”. The candidates can earn luxury goods, or lose existing ones. In addition, the candidates must regularly assess themselves in different categories.

  • Die Geissens – Eine schrecklich glamouröse Familie
    Die Geissens – Eine schrecklich glamouröse Familie (2011)7.7

    The Geisses - A Terribly Glamorous Family is a television programme starring the millionaire family Robert and Carmen Geiss.

  • Popstars
    Popstars (2000)7.5

    Popstars is a German reality television series that began its first installment on the RTL II network on November 14, 2000. Part of the international Popstars franchise, it originated from the same-titled New Zealand reality program. The show accompanies the making of pop music bands whose members depend on the particular season's concept. In its ten seasons, it spawned musical acts No Angels, Bro'Sis, Overground, Preluders, Nu Pagadi, Monrose, Room 2012, Queensberry, Some & Any, LaViVe and Melouria.

  • #CoupleChallenge – Das stärkste Team gewinnt
    #CoupleChallenge – Das stärkste Team gewinnt (2020)7.5

  • Grip - Das Motormagazin
    Grip - Das Motormagazin (2008)7.0

    Thrills, adrenaline, passion, speed, adventure - all this can be described in just four letters: GRIP! This superlative automotive magazine is always about one thing: Fun! The team around presenter and racing driver Matthias Malmedie has pure petrol in their blood and checks everything that has an engine for fun factor and power formula. "GRIP - Das Motormagazin" shows the hottest car trends every week, dares rapid tests and gives competent tips.

  • Die Kochprofis - Einsatz am Herd
    Die Kochprofis - Einsatz am Herd (2005)6.4

    Top chefs Frank Oehler, Mike Süsser, Andreas Schweiger and Ole Plogstedt are stepping up to clean up culinary crisis areas. They give restaurateurs and their kitchens a new perspective. Their mission: to save good taste. Their demeanor: cool, fair and energetic. They arrive in German restaurants when the schnitzel is too soft, the service is too slow or the kitchen is a mess. They are the rescue squad for desperate chefs. With power and passion, they put restaurants and their owners back on the road to success - and provide maximum entertainment in the process.

  • Promi Frauentausch
    Promi Frauentausch (2013)6.0

    For the show, celebrities swap their homes for a whole week - with everything that goes with it. They have to get to grips with everything they find in their new surroundings. This includes their house, dog and possibly even their partner.

  • Neanderthals
    Neanderthals (2016)5.5

    Mankind faces its greatest challenge as a successfully cloned Neanderthal is on the run...

  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (2000)3.9

    100 days, 24-hour surveillance, a container and no contact with the outside world: the residents live together in their new shared flat in a container for 100 days and are under 24-hour camera surveillance. Big Brother sees everything. Big Brother sets the rules. Big Brother is unpredictable.

  • Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung
    Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung (1994)N/A

  • MegaMan
    MegaMan (2001)N/A

  • Berlin - Tag & Nacht
    Berlin - Tag & Nacht (2011)N/A

    A german reality-TV soap opera with various changing protagonists, mainly young people and bachelors, trying to live their lifes in the giant metropole of Berlin.

  • MEK 8
    MEK 8 (2012)N/A

    MEK 8 works behind the scenes and always comes into play when conventional police units are overwhelmed.

  • Köln 50667
    Köln 50667 (2013)N/A

    The show is set in the city of Cologne and follows the lives of a group of young people in their twenties and thirties. The characters work, live, and love in the city, and the show focuses on their relationships, dramas, and personal struggles.

  • Klinik am Südring
    Klinik am Südring (2016)N/A

    At the Klinik am Südring, real doctors and nurses offer an insight into the unknown world of medicine and everyday hospital life: exciting medical research into causes and treatment meets personal stories. Our hospital staff are the heroes of the stories and always find a solution, are competent, empathetic and always there for the patients with a lot of heart and time.

  • Fake Reaction
    Fake Reaction (2016)N/A

  • Endlich Klartext!
    Endlich Klartext! (2017)N/A