The 40 most popular chinese reality TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Hello Saturday
2022
country: China
"Hello, Saturday" is the rebranding of the popular Chinese show "Happy Camp", hosted by He Jiong and with a fixed group of regular celebrity members. The program showcases the talent of various stars as well as social topics through creative and diverse content and games. It aims to spread positive energy while keeping up with the current trends and leading youth culture.


Who's the Murderer
2016
country: China
The cast is introduced to the settings and suspects of a murder case for the new episode. The cast then chooses their role in the episode, as a particular suspect or the detective.


Mao Xue Woof
2021
country: China
Mao Xue Woof is a scene-based reality show variety show with the relationship of original friends as the starting point. The program takes friendship as the link, and takes "Mao Xue Woof's Home" as the main shooting scene, telling the real and interesting stories of Mao Bu, Li Xueqin and their friends who meet here every week, tearing apart the status quo of daily life in laughter, showing the rich youth life and spiritual world of young people and recording the real growth. The program is broadcast every week all the year round, bringing companionship and emotional health healing to the hard-working young people in the city.


Keep Running
2014
country: China
Hurry Up, Brother! is a Chinese variety show based off the original Korean variety show, Running Man. It is created by SBS and co-produced with Zhejiang Television. It first aired on October 10, 2014. This show is classified as a game-variety show, where the MCs and guests complete missions in a landmark to win a race. In 2017, the show officially changed its name to "Keep Running".


Ride the Wind
2020
country: China
A chinese variety show which features 30 female artists over 30 years old. Through three months of training and competition, with the help of a professional production team and audience votes, a select group ultimately debuts as a pop idol group. The show is the first ever to provide a stage for female artists over 30 and to create an anti-aging music girl group for the public.


HaHaHaHaHa
2020
country: China
Road-type outdoor reality show. The five-kazakhstan tour group takes time out of the busy and trivial daily life to embark on a journey from east to west across China.


Amazing Night
2024
country: China
Amazing Night is an original new comedy variety show jointly produced by Tencent Video and Mi Wei. Huang Bo, Qin Hao, Jia Bing, Gao Yuanyuan, Ma Dong, Jin Jing, Song Muzi will be the audience representatives, in addition, each issue there is a mysterious audience representative, to accompany you to spend a wonderful comedy night!


Wonderland
2021
country: China
A social experiment reality show about the cultivation of an ideal community, inviting 15 guests to Taohuawu, 15KM away from the city center, to live together for 21 days, creating an ideal society in their hearts. See how they live, work, and live in harmony in friction and cooperation. It is also a journey to explore the source of material and spiritual consensus.


Trump Card
2016
country: China
No overview available


Become a Farmer
2023
country: China
A labor documentary interactive reality show that selects 10 young individuals to form the 'Farming Squad,' which will authentically document their entire process of operating a farm on 142.8 acres of land over 190 days. This includes sowing, irrigating, fertilizing, and harvesting, as well as live-streaming their sales to establish a self-sustaining farmers' market.


Back to Field
2017
country: China
The show documents the simplistic lifestyle of living away from the bustling city centers. Each season takes place in a different rural part of China. The cast members are only provided with the basic life necessities and have to take care of everything else such as cooking their own meals and building their own furniture. To "buy" different cooking ingredients and other tools, they have to complete certain tasks assigned by the production crew, such as planting and harvesting crops. Different guests join the cast in each episode and help out with the daily chores. The goal of the program is to bring the audience along on a slower pace of life and to illustrate the joys of a simple lifestyle.


The Truth
2022
country: China
The program tells the story of six new residents who work together to uncover the ultimate truth about Apartment 11 as they deduce a mysterious case.


Heart Signal
2018
country: China
A dating reality show about eight strangers, 4 men and 4 women, living together in the Signal House.


Great Escape
2019
country: China
Cast members work together to escape a secret room.


Call Me by Fire
2021
country: China
Call Me by Fire is a music competition reality show by Mango TV, featuring male singers, dancers, actors, and producers. Through mutual challenge and collaboration, they define the spirit of "a burning life that always shines."


Go Fighting
2015
country: China
Go Fighting! is classified as a game-variety-reality show, and the MCs and guests complete missions at a landmark to win the objective. Usually each episode will also have an over-arching theme or story. Each episode varies in the challenges and the instructions given to the MCs, and rules are not strictly enforced, resulting in a largely unscripted show.


CCTV Spring Festival Gala: Crosstalk and Sketch
1983
country: China
No overview available


Great Escape Super Version
2019
country: China
Great Escape · Super Versionis an official spin-off of Mango TV's large-scale escape room reality show, Great Escape. It invites skilled players into fully enclosed, unknown escape rooms to solve puzzles, unlock new spaces, uncover the story, and ultimately escape.


Divas Hit the Road
2014
country: China
No overview available


The Detectives' Adventures
2021
country: China
The first reality show on detective stories adapted from classic IP. Every episode is based on a classic IP drama. MCs are able to adapt and act out the classic stories in the real scenes. The detective group includes seven MCs, who are encouraged to obtain clues from the unreasonable scripts and amusing games.


Detective Academy
2019
country: China
"Detective College", as a derivative of the fifth season of "Who's the Murderer", is a star reasoning variety show where selected detective assistants launched by Mango TV. The star guests determine the number of advances by rolling the dice on the checkerboard. When the game is triggered, the corresponding game needs to be completed. The first guest to reach the end becomes the current No.1. The program combines the form of team battles and individual battles to inspire the star guests ’IQ and Contest of logical ability. No. 1 selected in the show will appear on the scene of the fifth season of "Who's the Murderer". "Detective College" consists of Pu Yixing, Zhou Junwei, Tang Jiuzhou, Qi Sijun, Shi Kai, Guo Wentao, Shao Mingming, etc., and premiered on November 3, 2019.


The Chinese Restaurant
2017
country: China
Chinese Restaurant is a Chinese celebrity reality show broadcast by Hunan Television.It's Vicky Zhao's first reality/variety show as a regular guest.


Detective Club
2017
country: China
No overview available


We Are the Champions
2022
country: China
A show based on the King Pro League program to convey the spirit of e-sports and team strength. The program will invite high-quality role models from sports circles, entertainment circles, e-sports circles and other fields to experience the sports charm of e-sports competitions with their love and pursuit of e-sports.


Memories Beyond Horizon
2022
country: China
“Memories Beyond Horizon” is a Chinese reality TV show , created to spotlight emerging domestic talent in film and TV. Produced in collaboration with Zhejiang Television, Alibaba’s Youku video service, and Hong Kong’s TVB, the show features veteran film and television figures mentoring a group of 18 artists from both the mainland and Hong Kong. Each episode focuses on reinterpreting iconic scenes from classic Hong Kong films such as “Infernal Affairs” and “New Dragon Gate Inn” for their acting challenges. Among the mentors are renowned Hong Kong directors and actors, including Yee Tung-sing and Francis Ng Chun-yu, while participants include graduates from professional acting schools, industry veterans, and individuals known for modeling, singing, or high-profile relationships.


Sing! China
2012
country: China
Sing! China (Chinese: 中国好声音; pinyin: Zhōngguó Hǎo Shēngyīn; formerly Chinese: 中国新歌声; pinyin: Zhōngguó Xīn Gēshēng) is a Chinese singing competition television series broadcast on Zhejiang Television. It is produced by Star (CM) Holdings Ltd.[1] It premiered during the summer on 15 July 2016. It is a re-branded version of The Voice of China, a show based on the original The Voice of Holland. It has aired seven seasons and aims to find new singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers, aged 18 or older (16 or older in seasons one and two), drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by live audience voting by SMS text. They receive a record deal with various labels for winning the competition.


Infinity and Beyond
2022
country: China
No overview available


Natural High
2023
country: China
Come and join Shen Teng and his friends as they step away from the bustling crowded cities and reconnect with the beautiful wild nature.


The Rap of China
2017
country: China
No overview available


Run for Time
2015
country: China
No overview available


Twinkle Love
2021
country: China
A reality show where 10 youths in their early 20s that recently graduated university will go on a graduation trip together. They have different personalities and different backgrounds but with time spent with each other, they form friendships and relationships.


SINGER
2013
country: China
SINGER, formerly known as I AM A SINGER, is a large-scale singing competition program co-produced by Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) and Mango TV. The first four seasons were adapted from the Korean reality show I Am a Singer produced by MBC. Beginning with the 2017 season, the program was rebranded as SINGER. The series brings together established vocalists from the Chinese music industry as well as internationally renowned artists to compete on stage. In each episode, the results are determined by a panel of 500 in-studio audience judges who vote to decide the singers’ rankings and eliminations. Starting with the 2024 season, the show shifted from pre-recorded broadcasts to fully live performances and introduced an additional panel of 500 online international audience judges.


See You Again
2021
country: China
Three couples facing emotional crisis start an 18-day trip in two RVs.


An Exciting Offer
2019
country: China
An Exciting Offer is the first career reality show in China. Five male students and three female students that graduated from well-known law schools will have internship for a month and complete the tasks under the guidance of four lawyers. After which they'll vie for two full-time positions. The celebrity group, including He Jiong, Guo Jingfei, Vin Zhou, Lan Yingying, Miss Papi, and a lawyer Yue Shenshan, will observe the interns' growth and learning in their work. The interns will learn professional and social skills of lawyers in the process.


Workplace Newcomers
2021
country: China
Real-life participants interview and work with the season's bosses: Zhang Han (Zhang Han Studios) and Dong Mingzhu (chairwoman of Gree Electric). The show showcases the ups and downs of working life during the participants' internship.


The King of Stand-up Comedy
2024
country: China
No overview available


The Voice (The Treasured of China)
2020
country: China
No overview available


Amazing Night Featured
2024
country: China
No overview available


Viva La Romance
2018
country: China
Viva La Romance (妻子的浪漫旅行) Mango TV produced the Chinese observational reality show, which debuted on August 15, 2018. It depicts celebrity wives on vacation while their husbands observe, comment, and communicate from a studio, with the goal of understanding and emotional expression to heal and improve marriage dynamics.


Love Actually
2021
country: China
This is a show that focuses on the brave and straightforward love of ordinary adults from late 20s to mid-40s. It concerns relationships, marriage, and a multitude of social interactions. The show will invite 12 men and women to stay under the same roof for 30 days. Some may become couples in the end while others might part ways. In the TV studio, the celebrities and the ordinary people will gather together to follow the series and share their opinions and experience about love.
Chinese television is built around costume drama and wuxia serials running to substantial episode counts, with a production scale that has few equivalents anywhere.
Reality television spans competition formats, documentary-style follow shows, and dating series. It's the most-watched and least-written-about corner of TV, and its formats travel internationally better than almost anything else.