The Best TV Shows on CTS

Every CTS Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of June 2025, showcases over 20 of CTS’s highest-rated series. Premiering in 1962 and 1987, Golden Horse Awards and Deep Garden are among CTS’s most celebrated shows. Boasting a rich catalog, CTS features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 1962 to 2019.

  • Control by Zhen Guan
    Control by Zhen Guan (2006)9.7

  • Best Interest
    Best Interest (2019)9.0

    Rookie lawyer Chen Boyun made a promise at an early age that she will work hard in achieving social justice, and not to drop any opportunities to advocate for justice. Experienced lawyer Fang Chang is the exact opposite; he now only pursues cases that require quick fixes and has long stopped investing personal feelings into cases. When Chen Boyun becomes the intern and personal assistant of Fang Cheng, conflicts ensue as they argue for different "best interests".

  • The Making of an Ordinary Woman
    The Making of an Ordinary Woman (2019)8.6

    A story of a woman born in 60s grew up in a Chinese herbal medicine store in southern Taiwan. Love, marriage, and seniority in human relationships around her collide together, leading to a different aspect of life.

  • Justice Pao
    Justice Pao (1993)8.5

    Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show stars Jin Chao-chun as the Chinese official Bao Zheng in the Song Dynasty. It was hugely popular in Greater China as well as many other countries in the Far East. The series was originally scheduled for just 15 episodes. However, the show garnered high ratings when the initial episodes aired. Due to its popularity, CTS expanded the show to 236 episodes. The TVB and ATV Home networks in Hong Kong both bought the series in an attempt to gain viewers. Competition between the two networks during the showing of the series was so severe that identical episodes were shown on both channels on the same night. It was also one of the first dramas that used NICAM technology.

  • Hana Kimi
    Hana Kimi (2006)8.0

    After watching a high jump competition on TV, Lu Rui Xi was so inspired by a jumper named Zuo Yi Quan that she decides to transfer to his school, which happened to be an all-boys school; therefore, she disguises herself as a boy to get accepted. At the school, Rui Xi befriends Jin Xiu Yi. One day during a friendly soccer match, Rui Xi is knocked unconscious by Xiu Yi. Quan carries her to the infirmary and realizes that Rui Xi is in fact a girl! However, Quan keeps her identity a secret. At the same time, Xiu Yi starts to question his own sexual orientation when he finds himself having feelings towards Rui Xi.

  • Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
    Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre (2003)7.7

    Based on the popular novel by Jin Yong Kam Yung. He also wrote Legend of the Condor Heroes and Return of the Condor Heroes. The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre takes place during 14th Century China during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, roughly 100 years after the events of Return of the Condor Heroes. After decades of struggles, famine, and bitterness which the Chinese citizens blamed on the Yuan Dynasty's misgovernment, the Martial Arts sects have begun to rebel. Prince Ruyong asks Cheng Kun, a Shaolin monk with an ulterior motive, for a plan on how to deal with the rebels. "The wielder of Heavenly Sword and/or Dragon Sabre rules the world." This well known legend in the Martial Arts community is the impetus for the tale of Zhang Wuji. The story begins with how his parents met (episodes 1-3), then tells his trials as an adolescent (episodes 4-8), proceeds to relate his rise to prominence (episodes 9-23) and reveals the secret behind Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre (episode 23), and ends with the confluence of Wuji's love life, the Martial Arts sects' long standing grudges, and cruel fate.

  • Eternity: A Chinese Ghost Story
    Eternity: A Chinese Ghost Story (2003)7.2

    In the Tang Dynasty, a prophecy of the Seven Lifetimes of Cursed Lovers threatens the world. Years after the demon lord Liudao’s defeat, scholar Ning Caichen arrives in the haunted town of Nanguo, where he meets the mischievous fox spirit Nie Xiaoqian, the mysterious Ma Hongye, and the relentless swordsman Zhuge Liuyun. As their destinies entwine, a tragic yet enchanting love story unfolds between the human and spirit realms.

  • Deep Garden
    Deep Garden (1987)7.0

  • Meteor Garden
    Meteor Garden (2001)7.0

    Shan Cai, whose parents are far from wealthy, attends Ying De University, the private school established exclusively for rich students. Besides being looked down by rich classmates, she has angered the leader of F4, Dao Ming Si.

  • 家有仙妻
    家有仙妻 (1991)6.0

  • The Seven Heroes And Five Gallants
    The Seven Heroes And Five Gallants (1994)6.0

  • 100% Senorita
    100% Senorita (2003)6.0

    When a surrogate mother gives birth to twins, she keeps Liang Xiaofeng by her side and gives Zhuang Feiyang away, who ends up in a wealthy family. Years later, Zhuang Feiyang becomes the heiress of Formosa Inc., a company created by her father and his partner, Peter. When Feiyang’s father passes away, Peter tries to kill Feiyang and take the company for his own. Despite Peter’s attempts, Feiyang escapes and undergoes cosmetic surgery in a bid to change her looks. From then on, the twins’ fates entwine once more.

  • The Duke of Mount Deer
    The Duke of Mount Deer (2000)5.6

    The Duke of Mount Deer 2000 is a television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first broadcast in 2000 in Hong Kong and followed by subsequent broadcasts in other Asian countries.

  • New My Fair Princess
    New My Fair Princess (2011)5.0

  • Why Why Love
    Why Why Love (2007)4.8

    Overworked Tong Jia-di gets a chance at love when her best friend secretly enters a "Love" coupon into a raffle, which is drawn by Jia-di's crush, Huo Yan. However, complications arise when Huo Yan's mischievous younger brother aims to win Jia-di's servitude with his own coupon, creating a tangled romantic dilemma.

  • Golden Horse Awards
    Golden Horse Awards (1962)N/A

    The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

  • 施公奇案(台版)
    施公奇案(台版) (1997)N/A

  • Princess Huai-yu
    Princess Huai-yu (2000)N/A

  • I Want to Become a Hard Persimmon
    I Want to Become a Hard Persimmon (2007)N/A

    Ever since little, Ruan Shi Zhi has always been on the receiving end of bullying. At 18, he decides to shed his pitiful past with a new beginning. Yet the moment he steps into his summer class, he is immediately confronted by a group of classmates whom he usually avoids like a plague. Just when he wants to run out of there, an angel-like girl walks in. He falls deeply in love with her. And for love, he tells himself he has to become tougher. He must find a way to survive in this dangerous place, transform himself, and defeat all his love rivals to win the girl's heart.

  • Welcome Happy Together
    Welcome Happy Together (2019)N/A