German Television Award / Best Series

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This article lists the nominations and the winners of the German Television Award in the categories of Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series . The categories were launched in 2018. Previously, from 1999 to 2017, the founders of the award awarded a television award in a series category ( Best Series ) without any division by genre . The winners will be determined in a secret vote by an independent jury.

History and records

The Best Series category has been awarded since 1999, with the Best Series and Best Actor Series categories merged into the Best Series / Best Actor Series category in 2001 and 2006 . Since 2018, the Best Series by Genre category has been divided into Best Drama Series and Best Comedy Series .

Every year from three nominations (exception 2008: five nominations) one winner is determined. In 2018, one winner was also selected from five nominations for the category Best Drama Series .

In 2016, a German television series was nominated from pay TV for the first time . In the same year, for the first time, no series was nominated by the public television channels . Two years later, a German television series with the participation of a video-on-demand provider was nominated for the first time .

The first prize in the Best Series category was RTL's Doppelter Einsatz , which won the German Television Prize in 1999 . The last winner in the Best Series category was VOX's Club of Red Ribbons , which was honored for the second time in a row at the German Television Award 2017 .

The first winner in the Best Drama Series category was Skys and ARD's Babylon Berlin and in the Best Comedy Series category RTL's Magda does it! , which were awarded at the German Television Prize 2018 .

The following is a list of records from the most frequent nominees and winners in the Best Series category . The winners and nominees in the other series or acting categories are not counted.

statistics series number year
Most frequent award Section 40 3 2003, 2004, 2005
Most frequent nominations
(* = victory) 		Edel & Starck 3 2002 *, 2003, 2004
Section 40 2003 *, 2004 *, 2005 *
The last cop 2011, 2012 *, 2014
Most frequent nomination without a win The clever ones 2 2000, 2001
Dr. Psycho 2007, 2008
RIS - The Language of the Dead 2007, 2008
The crime scene cleaner 2012, 2019
4 blocks 2018, 2019

If you look at the TV channels commissioning the series, RTL has the most wins among the eight largest TV channels with eight awards. This is followed by Sat.1 (four awards), ARD and ZDF (three awards each) as well as VOX (two awards) and ProSieben with one award. RTL II is the only television station of the eight largest that has never received a nomination, although the station has been producing and broadcasting its own series since 2016.

Winners and nominees

After the specification of the nominated television series, the associated television station (s) that participates in the series follows in brackets. For 2001 and 2006, the TV station (s) are followed by the co-nominated actor (s). The winners are highlighted in bold type first.

1990s

1999

2000s

2000

2001 Best Series / Best Actor Series:

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006 Best Series / Best Actor Series:

2007

2008

2009

2010s

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

  • no award of the German TV Prize

2016

2017

2018

Best Drama Series:

Best Comedy Series:

2019

Best Drama Series:

Best Comedy Series:

2020s

2020

Best Drama Series:

Babylon Berlin (Sky / ARD)
Bad Banks (ZDF / Arte)
Pressure ( funk / ZDFneo)
MaPa ( Joyn / rbb )
The Pass (Sky)

Best Comedy Series:

Ms. Jordan equals (Joyn / ProSieben)
Hindafing (BR / Arte)
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) ( Netflix )
Think big! (Sat 1)
Waiting for a bus (rbb)

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