Year-ender: Hit Chinese variety shows in 2025

Viva La Romance 2025

Produced by Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV, Viva La Romance 2025 explores cross-cultural marriages via global travel. Under the theme of "Embracing differences is the true meaning of love", the 12-episode series examines how couples handle, understand and embrace cultural differences in marriage.

This season follows four celebrity couples, including singer-actress Qi Wei and her US husband Nathan Lee; singer Han Geng and his wife Celina Jade from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and actress Hu Jing with her Malaysian husband Frank Choo. Their 18-day journey spanned cities such as Milan and Paris before concluding in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, where they took part in traditional Chinese wedding ceremonies in Wufengxi ancient town, discovering the beauty of Chinese-style romance.

Statistics show the program, aired from February to May 2025, received more than 190 million valid episode views in the first half of the year, triggering heated discussions on cross-cultural relationships.