The third season of W The Nation's Greatest Treasures will premiere on Dec 6. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The third season of The Nation's Greatest Treasures, a popular TV variety show on cultural relics, will premiere on Dec 6, said the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday.

The first season of the program with China Central Television was piloted in December 2017 and soon became a cultural phenomenon. On Douban, China's major film and TV critic website, both of the previous two seasons scored 9.1 points out of total 10.

In each episode, three key exhibits from one museum were highlighted. And the items were introduced by A-list entertainment stars through short historical stage dramas, while many vivid behind-the-scene stories related to the heritages were later told by experts and its conservators.