The Best TV Shows on Sanlih E-Television

Every Sanlih E-Television Show Ranked From Best To Worst

A broadcaster of distinction, Sanlih E-Television has aired more than 20 shows between 2001 and 2025. Leading the pack on Sanlih E-Television are 台灣阿誠 and The Bonfire of Taiwan, with their initial broadcasts in 2001 and 2002. Our curated list, current as of May 2026, showcases over 20 of Sanlih E-Television’s highest-rated series.

  • 台灣阿誠
    台灣阿誠 (2001)10.0

  • Dear Mom
    Dear Mom (2014)10.0

  • Lost Romance
    Lost Romance (2020)8.8

    Zheng Xiao-en works as an editor of romance novels at a publishing company, and secretly dreams about falling in love with a CEO. When she isn’t working, she spends her days daydreaming about He Tian Xing, the handsome chief executive of the company that occupies the building opposite her company’s offices.

  • Back to 1989
    Back to 1989 (2016)8.0

    A young successful young man has always felt something missing in his life because he never knew his father. At 26, Che Chen is already a successful assistant manager for an investment trust. But he was raised by his single mother Chen Mu and never knew the identity of his father, and that void has been nagging at him. But a freak accident sends Che back 27 years into the past, to the year before he was born. When he meets 22-year-old Zhen Zhen Ye, Che realizes that this naïve and trusting young woman is his mother's best friend! When Che realizes that anything he does in the year 1989 could alter his mother’s future, will he do anything to alter the course of his own life?

  • Fight for You
    Fight for You (2025)7.9

    Da Hei takes on dark tasks for medical funds, unaware his roommate Xiao Bai is an intelligence operative. Their growing bond tests their paths forward.

  • The Promise of the Soul
    The Promise of the Soul (2025)7.8

    After a fall swaps his soul into his grandson’s body, a 69-year-old man confronts college, queer romance, and the chaos of first love—all at once.

  • Li Wei the Magistrate
    Li Wei the Magistrate (2002)7.2

    Li Wei, a low-born but clever man who, with the help of his confidante Yue Siying, uses his wit to win the emperor’s favor.

  • The Bonfire of Taiwan
    The Bonfire of Taiwan (2002)7.0

    Tien-Fu Liu, a tycoon who is well connected in politics and business, and his son, Won-Tsung Liu, have been buying and selling large amounts of illicit drugs. Cheng-Hsien Lee (a police officer of Criminal Investigation Division) is instructed by his superior officer, Yao-Wei Lee (Chief of No. 1 Team of Criminal Investigation Division), to be an undercover to investigate the illegal activities of Tien-Fu Liu and Cheng Long Group. In the police's effort to crack down on Cheng Long Group, several policemen and policewomen shed their blood; however, Cheng Long Group, with great ties in politics and business through money, is not so easy to be destroyed. In the process, Cheng-Hsien found out that Tien-Fu Liu was the person who killed his father. In the meantime, another serious crime takes place and Cheng-Hsien, who has been utterly devoted to his job, immediately engages in a battle with the criminals so as to defend justice against evil and injustice. (Source: SET TV)

  • Trick or Love
    Trick or Love (2023)7.0

    Liang Jing Cen’s family happily looked forward to the re-opening of "Mélanger Bakery". Unexpectedly, the landlord suddenly informed them that the store had been sold. The Liang family planned to buy the bakery, but the new owner raised the price to make things difficult. When Jing Cen fell into despair, Guan Heng Wei suddenly appeared, willing to help her with the rest of the funds. The only condition was that she pretends to be a man and become his fake boyfriend in order to avoid his grandma's forced marriage. In order to buy back the bakery, Jing Cen signed this strange contract, but she did not expect that all of this was carefully arranged by Guan Heng Wei...

  • Bromance
    Bromance (2015)6.7

    Could anyone be more excited to reach her 25th birthday? Pi Yanuo had an inauspicious start to her life. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Yanuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Yanuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped?

  • Love, Now
    Love, Now (2012)6.2

    When her loved ones cook up a morbid plan to make her take time off from work, Yang Yiru goes on a vacation, truly believing she has terminal cancer.

  • Lovely Villain
    Lovely Villain (2023)6.0

    Possessing nothing after repaying her debts, HAN Zhen-zhen moves to her sister’s fancy neighborhood with her husband, ZHUANG Jun-jie, and daughter, ZHUANG Ying-wen, and wishes to start a new life. However, she accidentally gets involved in the neighborhood’s power struggle and the seemingly hopeful future becomes uncertain.Meanwhile, Ying-wen, struggling to cope with the trauma of being bullied in the past, is sexually assaulted soon after moving to the neighborhood. The anguished father Jun-jie accuses another new resident, JIANG Zheng-ming, a baseball star, of being the culprit. Suddenly, the swayed public opinion followed by rumors and cyberbullying renders Zheng-ming helpless. All he can do is proclaim his innocence before reporters. Who is the true culprit? What is the truth?

  • A Thousand Goodnights
    A Thousand Goodnights (2019)4.7

    To carry out her dad's wish and discover her roots, Dai Tian-qing embarks on a journey around Taiwan and finds love and redemption on the way.

  • Better Man
    Better Man (2016)3.0

    The Yang brothers have it all — good looks, brains and family background. But each shuns romantic entanglements for his own reasons. Yang Zhen Wei (Lin Yo Wei) is the workaholic oldest brother who only has his mind set on expanding his catering business. Yang Zhen Hao (Tender Huang) is the middle brother who works in the entertainment industry and as a fitness instructor. Yang Zhen Kai (Jolin Chien) is the meticulous youngest brother who has been given the position of CEO of the family empire. How will the brothers handle their emotions when they each meet a woman who turns their perfect worlds upside down? “Better Man” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.

  • Taiwan Tornado
    Taiwan Tornado (2004)N/A

    Chi-Chung Huang is the second son of the Huang family, which owns Taiwan Chao-Lian Group. Chi-Chung and his older brother, Chi-Long Huang, bribe the prosecutor for a death penalty case that his family is involved in. However, the prosecutor changes his mind about the matter. Chi-Chung leads his men to confront the prosecutor, who later falls off an elevated expressway and dies. To lay low for a while, Chi-Chung accepts his brother's arrangement and goes into hiding in the southern region of Taiwan. However, after he arrives there, he is controlled by a crime syndicate. After he is drugged and becomes hardly conscious, he inadvertently rapes Chia-Yi, who is a nice good girl. After the rape, Chia-Yi swears to get Chi-Chung to face up the legal consequences; later, she finds she is impregnated by Chi-Chung, and this strengthens her will to fight a battle between the rich (Chi-Chung) and the poor (herself). As a storm is quietly approaching, who will turn out to be the winner?

  • Love Cheque Charge
    Love Cheque Charge (2014)N/A

    Three years after making a wild promise to a woman in distress, a rigid businessman runs into her again and must decide whether to honor his word.

  • La Grande Chaumière Violette
    La Grande Chaumière Violette (2016)N/A

    Reminiscing about his youth in Taiwan's turbulent 1920s, Guo Xuehu reflects on his passion for art, a friendship with a painter -- and a doomed romance.

  • V-Focus
    V-Focus (2016)N/A

    Chiang Chih-heng, a former mercenary now known as “The Bodyguard,” is the owner of Krisis, a security consultancy company that protects public figures who are chased by the paparazzi. Ting Ruo-chin is nicknamed the “Variety Queen” for her dogged ability to chase down celebrity gossip exclusives as a tabloid journalist for “V-Focus.” On their way to a news event, they become stranded on a desert island together. There they'll need to work together to survive and to make all the efforts to escape.

  • Atom Boyz
    Atom Boyz (2022)N/A

    This 2022 Taiwanese men's talent show, produced by Wildfire Entertainment, features 80 contestants, mostly from Taiwan, competing to form two 5-member male music groups. Hosted by Chen Jiahua, Zhou Tanghao, and others, the contestants are divided into eight planetary groups, each with its own style. The winning sub-group debuts as the champion group, while another popular group is chosen through audience voting.

  • Desires
    Desires (2024)N/A

    Three sworn brothers torn apart by betrayal and tragedy are forced to face each other again years later, as hidden identities, family ties, and power struggles resurface to reignite their deadly feud.