The Best TV Shows on VRT 1

Every VRT 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, VRT 1 features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1990 to N/A. Check out the most acclaimed shows on VRT 1, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for September 2025. Samson & Gert and F.C. De Kampioenen represent the pinnacle of VRT 1’s programming, launching in 1990 and 1990.

  • Scheire and the Creation
    Scheire and the Creation (2012)8.3

    Lieven Scheire wanders like a forensic blood hound on planet science and all her secondary planets. Faithfully assisted by Googleman and his one-man house orchestra Stijn Cole.

  • De Slimste Mens ter Wereld
    De Slimste Mens ter Wereld (2003)7.7

  • The House
    The House (2015)7.5

    Every episode, one interesting Belgian visits "The House" ("Het huis") for 24 hours. In this imposing house with a pool, surrounded by a forest, in an unknown location, the visitor is "locked away" from the rest of the world for 24 hours. They are interviewed, dissected, confronted by the interviewer.

  • Professor T.
    Professor T. (2015)7.5

    Eccentric criminal psychology Professor T is a successful police advisor but his unpredictable nature drives his colleagues crazy. He has a brilliant mind, but also several psychological and neurological disorders which make him a complex and often difficult individual. However, aided by the trusty and understanding Annelies and Daan they form a team of high-powered experts that Antwerp Homicide Department rely on. After Season Two, however, things change radically. This is a thinking person's television series.

  • Undercover
    Undercover (2019)7.5

    Undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation by posing as a couple at the campground where he spends his weekends. Inspired by real events.

  • Samson & Gert
    Samson & Gert (1990)7.3

    Samson & Gert is a Flemish children's television series produced by Studio 100, centered around the talking dog Samson and his boss Gert.

  • Under Fire
    Under Fire (2021)7.3

    At East Bank Station, a close-knit team of firefighters must balance a dangerous, high-stress job, personal challenges and professional setbacks.

  • F.C. De Kampioenen
    F.C. De Kampioenen (1990)7.2

    F.C. De Kampioenen, was a long-running Flemish sitcom chronicling the adventures of a fictional local football team. It aired on the Belgian-Flemish channel één between 1990 and 2011, for 21 seasons with 273 half-hour long episodes, making it one of the most successful comedy programs ever on Belgian television. In 2009 a film had been planned, but has since been cancelled following complaints by the actors about the script. In 2012 the crew announced a new script was written and a movie will be produced. The movie is to be released in December 2013. The series relies heavily on stereotypical characters and farce for its humour. The story is mainly set around a few members of the football club who regularly visit the club canteen before or after a soccer training or match. The canteen is run by Pascale, who is in a relationship with Maurice. The football club is sponsored by the owner of a sausage factory, Balthazar Boma. Next to the field is an antiques shop, owned by the fraudulent Fernand. Most of the episodes are based on misunderstandings or dirty tricks from Fernand.

  • The Twelve
    The Twelve (2019)7.1

    Twelve ordinary people are called for jury duty for a controversial murder case.

  • Dertigers
    Dertigers (2019)7.0

  • High Tides
    High Tides (2023)6.8

    Over a tense summer on the Belgian coast, a wealthy friend group faces adulthood's harsh realities while grappling with love and societal expectations.

  • Flikken
    Flikken (1999)6.6

    Flikken was a popular Flemish-Belgian TV series about a police-department located in Ghent. The show started in 1999 and ended recently on 19 April 2009. In the series, a team of six police officers solved various crimes, petty crimes as well as organised crime. The series always aimed at showing the policework in a realistic way - though a little personal drama was never far off. Of all the actors that came along during the ten seasons, only Mark Tijsmans and Ludo Hellinx appeared throughout the entire series. Flikken was produced by the VRT and broadcast on Belgian public channel Eén and TROS in the Netherlands. Flikken is very popular in Belgium and the Netherlands. The show has had very high ratings of up to 1.8 million viewers during the last season. Every year the VRT organises the Flikkendag, a family day where the public can meet the actors of the show. There are many games, demonstrations of the real police and other safety organisations and performances of singers. On 18 April 2009, a special farewell party was organised in Ghent, in which the actors and crew said goodbye to their fans - thousands had assembled to watch the show on stage.

  • Witse
    Witse (2004)6.5

    Witse is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VRT and broadcast on their één channel. It is also shown on BVN. First broadcast in 2004, as of 2010 the programme comprises eight series with a ninth and final series planned for 2012. It stars Hubert Damen as the eponymous Witse, a driven inspector in the Belgian federal police based in Halle. It is one of the most popular Flemish television programmes with some 1.6 million viewers. There are also Witse books. The first three were based on the last two episodes of each season, but since 2010 every six months a brand new story is published, written and invented by established Belgian writers, as Bob Van Laerhoven and Bart Van Lierde. The music for Witse is composed by Steve Willaert.

  • Recht op Recht
    Recht op Recht (1998)6.2

  • Arcadia
    Arcadia (2023)6.1

    Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.

  • Thuis
    Thuis (1995)5.3

    The Bomans, Bastiaens, Verbeeck, and de Grote families must navigate personal and romantic relationships while dealing with the challenges of their daily lives.

  • Emma
    Emma (2007)N/A

    Emma tells the story of two women, Emma and Birsen, with completely different backgrounds who are determined to make it in the television world. Along the way they often hit their heads against the wall.

  • Pano
    Pano (2016)N/A

    Pano is a weekly magazine with penetrating reports around the big themes of our time. Themes that should interest all Flemish people and make them self-reflect. Pano wants to focus on strong, human stories, but also hard research journalism. Reporting own stories and news is a priority. For this show, the redaction teams of the old één program "Koppen" and the old Canvas program "Panorama" were combined into one.

  • De Campus Cup
    De Campus Cup (2019)N/A

  • This is Not a Murder Mystery
    This is Not a Murder Mystery (N/A)N/A

    Set in the flamboyant 1930s, “This is not a murder mystery” reunites world renowned Surrealist artists, including young Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, who find themselves trapped in a lavish mansion with a mysterious serial killer on the loose.