The Best TV Shows on KykNET

Every KykNET Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of August 2026, our compilation of KykNET’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. From 2004 through to 2026, KykNET has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. Premiering in 2004 and 2005, Villa Rosa and Binnelanders are among KykNET’s most celebrated shows.

  • Die Oord
    Die Oord (2026)10.0

    A holiday town on the coast. Families who have been camping at the same caravan park for generations. Children playing on the beach. Braai under the trees. Everything is idyllic - until a body washes up on the beach.

  • Republiek van Zoid Afrika
    Republiek van Zoid Afrika (2014)9.0

    Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dankie, Lottoland
    Dankie, Lottoland (2021)8.0

    The aim of Dankie, Lottoland is to identify individuals and charities in need, so that Lottoland South Africa can intervene, roll up its sleeves and support and assist them. Through this popular television series, 13 charities (or vulnerable individuals) also gain the opportunity for national exposure on television, with a view to gaining further support from the public in the future.

  • Afgrond
    Afgrond (2021)8.0

    Fate and the choices that five women make while each is fighting for their existence bring them together. Each has to make a decision that will change their lives.

  • Jukebox
    Jukebox (2008)7.0

    Jukebox is a South African Afrikaans-language music video request television show in which a selection of viewer's choice music videos are played.

  • 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.

  • Suidooster
    Suidooster (2015)7.0

    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.

  • 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.

  • Slank
    Slank (2016)6.0

    "Slank" is a South African reality show hosted by Leandie du Randt that focuses on people's weight loss journeys.

  • 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.

  • Pandjieswinkelstories
    Pandjieswinkelstories (2014)4.0

    Pandjieswinkelstories (Pawnshop Stories) is a South African drama anthology television series created and written by PG du Plessis and produced by Krisan Produksies which - in the vein of his classic series Koöperasiestories - tells a different story each week through the eyes of three central characters, who confide in the viewers about what they are watching.

  • 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.