热门穿越剧《步步惊心》海报

Time-travel TV series "Bu Bu Jing Xin," or "Startling by Each Step," began broadcasting on TV on September 10, 2011. Ratings of the show rose to nearly 7 percent in the first two days. The show has been searched on the Internet more than one million times in the first three days and the number is still increasing. Most of the audience gave the show high marks.

穿越剧《步步惊心》于2011年9月10日在电视上开播，头两天的收视份额就达到了近7%。该剧开播头三天网络搜索量就破百万，而且数量还在增加。大部分观众都给该剧打了高分。

时下火爆荧屏的“穿越剧”就是time-travel TV series，穿越剧是以人物穿越时空为线索的电视剧，许多穿越剧都改编自hot online novels（热门网络小说）。上文报道中的热门电视剧《步步惊心》的所改编自的原著就是Internet writer（网络作家）创作的time-travel novel（穿越小说）。

除了穿越剧外，现在最受欢迎的电视剧类型还有spy drama（谍战剧）、courtroom drama / legal thriller（案情剧）和idol drama（偶像剧）等。