The Best TV Shows on VRT 1

Every VRT 1 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Across the timeline from 1956 to 2023, VRT 1 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from July 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. Icons of VRT 1, Eurosong and Samson & Gert made their debut in 1956 and 1990, setting industry standards.

  • The Columbus
    The Columbus (2018)9.0

    Report series in which Wim Lybaert goes on the road with another guest in his to a mobile home converted bus, "De Columbus".

  • Château Planckaert
    Château Planckaert (2020)8.0

  • De Mol
    De Mol (1998)7.9

    The Mole is a reality television game show which was originally created in 1999 by Woestijnvis. It was conceived by Michiel Devlieger, Bart de Pauw, Tom Lenaerts and Michel Vanhove, and won the famous Rose d'Or in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2000. The format has been licensed in 40 countries from all around the world. The show aired on TV1 (now VRT 1) for 3 reasons between 1998 and 2003; in 2016 it was revived and moved to VIER (now PLAY).

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

    Do we still sing the praises of folly like Erasmus, or is it trendy again to be smart? And if so, who is the smartest? Who can talk about the medals won at the Olympic Games in London, but at the same time knows who Captain Haddock is? Who knows whether Lacan was a hair growth product or a psychoanalyst and can also program their own digital television? Who has déjà vu when leafing through the Encyclopedia Britannica and when reading the interviews with the new Miss Waregem Koerse? Who, oh who, is the smartest person in Flanders, Belgium, Europe, and by extension, the world? That is determined by a fierce battle between three fellow human beings. Every day, someone is eliminated, someone who may not be the smartest, but who is perhaps cherished in their family circle because of their many other talents. The others advance and are joined by a new challenger every day.

  • Samson & Gert
    Samson & Gert (1990)7.6

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

  • 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.

  • Vrede op Aarde
    Vrede op Aarde (2017)7.5

  • 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.

  • F.C. De Kampioenen
    F.C. De Kampioenen (1990)7.4

    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.

  • Professor T.
    Professor T. (2015)7.3

    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.

  • Dertigers
    Dertigers (2019)7.0

  • High Tides
    High Tides (2023)6.7

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

  • Witse
    Witse (2004)6.6

    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.

  • Thuis
    Thuis (1995)6.3

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

  • Eurosong
    Eurosong (1956)N/A

    Eurosong was the Flemish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. It selected the Belgian entry to the Contest every second year. The last Eurosong was in 2008. Due the good result of Tom Dice in 2010, who was chosen internally, the VRT decided to cancel Eurosong.

  • Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan
    Alleen Elvis blijft bestaan (2013)N/A

  • Switch
    Switch (2016)N/A

  • 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.

  • Op Kot
    Op Kot (2020)N/A

  • De dag van vandaag
    De dag van vandaag (2022)N/A