For Shanghainese, many will spend the holiday glued to their TV sets. Is it some special event coverage or some hot new celebrity? Nope, it’s just they were too busy to get in some good quality watching before. A recent survey (another one of those mysterious governmental agency surveys) indicates that almost half of Shanghai residents will be doing just that this Chinese New Years.

Quote from Shanghai Daily:

The survey also found 45.6 percent of Shanghai residents will use the holiday mostly to watch TV series, for which they don’t often have time.

Seems the whole “family values” thing can wait until they finish watching yet another serial about some Chinese heroes in ancient China fighting some typical bad guys. To me it seems that about 50% of all Chinese TV shows are about this. I think I prefer my West Wing. Anyhow, happy Chinese New Year everyone!