The Best TV Shows on CTS

Every CTS Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, CTS has aired more than 20 shows between 1962 and 2023. Golden Horse Awards and Lovers Under the Rain represent the pinnacle of CTS’s programming, launching in 1962 and 1986. Dive into our updated selection of CTS’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of May 2025.

  • The Sword and the Chess of Death
    The Sword and the Chess of Death (2007)10.0

    An unfinished game of Chess of Death from five hundred years ago was said to hold the clue to a buried treasure and Lin Shuang Sword was the key to the game. Anyone who could finish this game would obtain enough wealth to take over the world. Five hundred years later, Ren Qian Xin was ordered to find Lin Shuang Sword. Ren was madly in love with Liu Yi Yi. But the woman's heart was on his honorary brother, Yan Cang Feng. The despaired Ren challenged Yan to the Chess of Death.

  • Uncle
    Uncle (2023)10.0

    Uncle is a heartwarming, healing comedy about a carpenter searching for himself and repairing emotions. After all, a person’s life is akin to this drama, with many regrets that need mending. Emotions can be restored just like objects.

  • 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)8.7

    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.

  • Lovers Under the Rain
    Lovers Under the Rain (1986)8.0

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 紫禁之巔
    紫禁之巔 (2004)N/A

  • 愛你沒條件
    愛你沒條件 (2015)N/A

  • 婚禮歌手
    婚禮歌手 (2021)N/A

  • Piggy's Counterattack
    Piggy's Counterattack (2021)N/A

    A healing romantic comedy that subverts fairy tales, “The Three Little Pigs ” has fallen from the life of the rich into the ordinary world, reversing life from zero. A rich dad who started from scratch suddenly declared bankruptcy! They fell from the rich life into the ordinary world overnight, and were forced to leave the luxurious comfort zone. The three little pigs moved from the villa “mansion” into the old house “so narrow”, and a family who has forgotten the ordinary life long ago, can Carry the life of rough tea and light rice? How to reverse life from 0?