The Best TV Shows on CCTV-10

Every CCTV-10 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 2001 to 2024, CCTV-10 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Icons of CCTV-10, Lecture Room and Lecture Room made their debut in 2001 and 2001, setting industry standards. As of October 2025, we’ve curated over 20 of CCTV-10’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure.

  • Lecture Room
    Lecture Room (2001)10.0

  • 王立群读史记之秦始皇
    王立群读史记之秦始皇 (2008)10.0

  • 王阳明
    王阳明 (2021)10.0

  • Yi Zhongtian: Analysis of the Three Kingdoms
    Yi Zhongtian: Analysis of the Three Kingdoms (2006)9.0

    CCTV-10 Lecture Room series: Pin San Guo (品三国; Analysis of the Three Kingdoms). "Yi Zhongtian's Analysis of the Three Kingdoms" is a CCTV-10 historical broadcast program and one of the "Hundred Forums" series. The main speaker, Yi Zhongtian, restored the real Cao Cao, defended Zhou Yu's false accusations, spoke up about Zhuge Liang, and re-evaluated Sima Yi. When talking about the world, there are only three points of gossip. Discuss the merits and demerits carefully, and summarize the gains and losses of successes and failures. Professor Yi Zhongtian of Xiamen University will use stories to tell characters, characters to tell history, history to tell culture, and culture to tell human nature. Discuss the major events of the Three Kingdoms and carefully analyze the success and failure of the heroes. Professor Yi Zhongtian will explain it from a civilian perspective.

  • Chinese Idiom Congress
    Chinese Idiom Congress (2014)9.0

    The humanistic connotation carried by idioms is very rich and profound. A large number of idioms come from traditional classics, expressing the Chinese values of whether human relations are good or evil, and whether the realm is high or low. It can be called the "living fossil" of Chinese culture, it is worth promoting, and it is a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. Compared with the "Chinese Characters Dictation Competition", the "Chinese Idiom Congress" has incorporated more unique and diverse innovative ideas on the basis of retaining similar competition forms, and invited many heavyweights such as Bi Shumin, Meng Man, and Li Bo to participate in the contest. Cultural celebrities serve as judges, hoping to show the beauty of the unique context of Chinese idioms in detail.

  • Lecture Room
    Lecture Room (2001)N/A

  • 第十放映室
    第十放映室 (2004)N/A

  • 斗转星移
    斗转星移 (2004)N/A

  • 千年书法
    千年书法 (2005)N/A

  • 百家讲坛:汉代风云人物
    百家讲坛:汉代风云人物 (2005)N/A

  • 秘境追踪
    秘境追踪 (2005)N/A

  • 中国建设者
    中国建设者 (2015)N/A

  • Chinese Poetry Congress
    Chinese Poetry Congress (2016)N/A

  • 广府春秋
    广府春秋 (2016)N/A

  • Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains of China
    Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains of China (2017)N/A

    The sun and menstruation pass through the sky, and the rivers and rivers travel to the earth. The Chinese nation has always advocated the unity of nature and man, Taoism follows nature, respects nature, and conforms to nature. The program will use mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, and life as carriers to show the relationship between man and land, and to feel the country, nostalgia, and nostalgia. The program combines knowledge and fun, with shocking visual effects, witty competition forms, and interpretation and commentary from a unique perspective, to create a super geographical and humanistic feast that is uniquely charming and appeals to both refined and popular tastes. The program closely follows the theme of the times and aims to present a beautiful China, an ecological China, and a cultural China. With the excellent traditional Chinese culture as the carrier, it shows the relationship between man and land.

  • 跟着书本去旅行
    跟着书本去旅行 (2019)N/A

  • 探索发现:2019考古进行时
    探索发现:2019考古进行时 (2019)N/A

  • 家乡至味
    家乡至味 (2020)N/A

  • 看见纪南城
    看见纪南城 (2022)N/A

  • 探索·发现
    探索·发现 (2024)N/A