TIMELESS DRAMA CHANNEL PRESENTATION
WHY TURQUOISE?
Turquoise, literally meaning Turkish stone in Old French, has been a symbol of beauty, passion and love throughout centuries across many cultures around the globe. With it’s dramatic opaque, blue-to-green colors the stone draws striking similarity to dazzling waters of the Mediterranean, also known for its passionate, love seeking warm people, has been an inspiration to our brand new drama channel. With over 500 hours of globally acclaimed premium Turkish Drama series and movies capturing universal themes and family values, they cross cultural boundaries. Characterized by leading Turkish actors and actresses with passionate fans around many regions of the world.
Timeless Drama Channel with its record breaking series, now come as a ground breaking channel, will captivate your audiences and subscribers.
DISCOVER OUR NEW DRAMA CHANNEL
Over 500 hours of the best movies and series from major Turkish producers: Kurt Seyit ve Şura Karadayı 20 Dakika Son and many more!
CHANNEL POSITIONING
FEMALE - SQUEWING CHANNEL, AIMED AT WOMEN OVER 20
Love, passion, obsession, action, drama
THE GENRE
Turkish TV dramas are now watched by more than 400 million people in more than 140 countries
Turkey is globally the second highest exporter of TV series abroad after the United States
Capturing universal themes and family values they cross cultural boundaries
Big budget productions $200k. Episode av. series 40 episodes
THE PROGRAMMING
More then 500 hrs of the best movies & series from major Turkish producers which have reached international acclaim
Including;
Kurt Seyit ve Şura, Karadayı, 20 Dakika, Son
Appointment to view at 20.00 with new episode daily
Marathon Catch up Weekends
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
Leading Turkish actors and actresses including: Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Bergüzar Korel, Çetin Tekindor, Engin Altan Düzyatan, Berrak Tüzünataç, Yiğit Özşener, Nehir Erdoğan, Tuba Büyüküstün, İlker Aksum
BERGUZAR KOREL
Berguzar Korel has graduated from the Theatre Department of Mimar Sinan State Conservatory. She acted in mainly “1001 Nights”, “The Uncle in Black “, “ Valley of the Wolves: Iraq “ and “Wounded Love”.
KENAN IMIRZALIOGLU
Kenan Imirzalioglu - is a Turkish actor and former model. In 2004, he was in leading role in the movie “Toss-Up”, that won 16 awards in different festivals. He won the Best Actor award at Adana Alin Koza Festival, an important Turkish Movie Awards. Between 2009-2011 he was playing in a Turkish drama “Ezel”. In the “The Uncle in Black”.
KIVANÇ TATLITUG
Kivanç Tatlitug -after modeling career, his acting career began with the TV Series “Silver” (2005). He continued his acting as Behlül in “Forbidden Love”. He starred as a guest in the TV series “Ezel”. He played many leading roles: Guney in “Kuzey Guney”, Kurt in “Kurt Seyit and Şura“, Brave in “Brave and Beautiful”. Tatlıtuğ won Yeşilçam Cinema Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
TUBA BÜYÜKÜSTÜÑ
Tuba Büyüküstün - She act in many highly successful TV shows such as “20 Minutes”, “Black Money Love”, and currently “The Brave and the
Beautiful”. As a ‘Melek’, in ‘20 Minutes’, she was nominated “Best Actress” at the “42 International Emmy Awards”, as a frst-ever ‘EMMY’ candidate from Turkey. Tuba is also a ‘UNICEF National Goodwill Ambassador’.
BERRAK TÜZÜNATAÇ
She appeared on Turkish Television History’s best series Muhteşem Yüzyıl on 2014
Co-star of Turkish television big crime hit series Ezel 2010-2011.
NEHİR ERDOĞAN
She is an actress, known for Hababam Sinif Merhaba
(2003), Okul (2004) and Silsile (2014).
YİĞİT ÖZŞENER
Appears on hit Turkish movies Aşk Tesadüferi Sever (2011), Kaybedenler Kulübü (2011) sequel Kaybedenler Kulübü Yolda (2018) and Dedemin İnsanları (2011)
Star of Turkish television big crime hit series Ezel 2009-2011.
ENGİN ALTAN DÜZYATAN
Stars the Turkish big hit historic series Ertuğrul Diriliş since 2014.
Stars hit movies Romantik Komedi (2010), Romantik Komedi – 2 (2013)
KURT SEYIT & SHURA
[KURT SEYİT VE ŞURA]
If you like historical shows with elaborate costumes, a passionate love story, and a jot of melodrama, then this series is just for you.
Kurt Seyit & Shura is about the adventures of two people in love who broke away from their magnifcent lives in Russia and were dragged to Istanbul.
The journey of Kurt Seyit, a lieutenant from Crimea, and Shura, the beautiful daughter of a noble Russian family, from the days of magnifcence to the Carpathian front line, from the riots to revolution, from Alushta to occupied Istanbul, to Pera in the 1920’s, is in a sense the journey of their love.
Director: Screenwriter: Stars:
Hilal Saral
Ece Yörenç- Melek Gençoğlu Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ,
Farah Zeynep Abdullah
KARADAYI
Award-winning series about desperate love story and the search for justice
Istanbul, 1970s. The Kara family is highly respected in the working class area where they live and Mahir’s father NAZIF is looked upon as ‘Karadayi’– the benign godfather of the area, who people turn to for advice and help in time of need. Unfortunately, family’s life is turned upside down because of a wrongful accusation that results in the imprisonment of Nazif Kara for a murder he didn’t commit.
Director: Uluç Bayraktar & Cem Karcı
Screenwriter: Sema Ergenekon, Eylem Canpolat
Stars: Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Bergüzar Korel, Çetin Tekindor
THE END
[SON]
The End (SON) has been sold in over 35 countries. Popular Turkish psychological thriller series
“The End” was adapted into a Dutch version.
Aylin is a woman who has everything.
She is deeply in love with her husband, Selim, doting mother to their handsome son Ömer. She drops Selim of at the airport one morning and everything changes. His plane crashes. There are no survivors. After days of over- whelming grief comes a glimmer of hope: the airline realizes his name was not on the pas- senger list. Wherever he is, he is not dead – he never boarded the plane.
The End. Would you go all the way to fnd the truth?
Director: Uluç Bayraktar
Screenwriter: Berkun Oya
Stars: Engin Altan Düzyatan, Berrak Tüzünataç, Yiğit Özşener, Nehir Erdoğan
20 MINUTES
[20 DAKİKA]
A political drama full of suspense and intrigue
20 Minutes tells the story of a mild mannered history teacher Ali, who is thrown into a World of action and intrigue when his beloved wife Melek is arrested fort he attempted murder of a young man-Kerim. Ali must abandon his books and fnd inner strength and courage that he did not know he had in order to free his wife and reclaim his family life.
Director: Ali Bilgin
Screenwriter: Kerem Deren - Pınar Bulut
Stars: Tuba Büyüküstün, İlker Aksum, Firat Çelik
MOMS AND MOTHERS
[ANALAR VE ANNELER]
A beautiful story of the relationship of two women from different worlds
Set in 1970s Turkey, Moms and Mothers tells the story of two different young women whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined. Kader lives in a small village in Anatolia and longs for nothing more than a happy life with Mustafa, but following a tragic accident she is left alone in Istanbul. Zeliha is a smart, educated woman whose passionate relationship with the activist Murat leaves her in danger and ultimately widowed and pregnant. 9 months on, the two women’s paths cross…
Director: Mehmet Ada Öztekin
Screenwriter: Berkun Oya
Stars: Sinem Kobal, Hazar Ergüçlü, Okan Yalabık
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHANNEL LAUNCHES SOON IN THE FOLLOWING REGIONS:
·Central and Eastern Europe
·Asia
·South Africa
·Latin America