Spring Festival Gala- world’s most watched television show
China is celebrating the Lunar New year with food and fireworks but there is one more thing that marks this celebration, and that is Spring Festival Gala on the state-run China Central Television network. This is the most-watched television show in the world and this year’s program will run for four hours on Thursday night. Guinness World Records in 2012 said the show had a unique viewership of 498.7 million.