Menajerimi Ara

Menajerimi Ara
Genre	Drama Comedy
Written by	Yelda Eroğlu (1–7) Yeşim Çıtak (1–7) Emine Yıldırım (3–7) Ekin Atalar (8–34) Sema Ergenekon (35–41) Uğraş Güneş (35–45)
Directed by	Ali Bilgin (1–9) Deniz Çelebi Dikilitaş (10–45)
Starring	Barış Falay Canan Ergüder Fatih Artman Serhat Teoman Ahsen Eroğlu Deniz Can Aktaş Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu Özge Borak
Theme music composer	Uğur Ateş, Saki Çimen
Composers	Saki Çimen Uğur Ateş
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language	Turkish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	45
Production
Producer	Kerem Çatay
Production location	Istanbul
Running time	150 minutes
Production company	Ay Yapım
Original release
Network	Star TV
Release	25 August 2020 (2020-08-25) – 11 July 2021 (2021-07-11)

Menajerimi Ara (transl. "Call My Manager") is a Turkish drama and comedy television series signed by Ay Yapım, directed by Deniz Çelebi Dikilitaş, script written by Uğraş Güneş and Volkan Yazıcı, first episode aired on 25 August 2020.^[1] Blending drama and comedy, the series centers around the lives of four managers with their assistants at a prestigious talent agency.^[2] With each episode, actors from the cinema and television industry participate in the series as guests and portray themselves.^[3] Adapted from the French TV series Dix pour cent.^[4] The series ended with its 45th episode, which was broadcast on July 11, 2021.

Plot

Four managers of talent agency Ego, namely Kıraç (Barış Falay), Feris (Canan Ergüder), Çınar (Fatih Artman) and Peride (Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu), deal with difficult situations every day and defend their business visions. They skillfully combine art and business, but their private and professional lives sometimes come into conflict. Managers and their assistants take us behind the scenes of the wild world of famous players; where laughter, emotions, intrigue, disappointment and tears constantly collide. Dicle (Ahsen Eroğlu), who entered this wild world for the first time, says that I am also in the war, starting from the bottom in his struggle against personalities whose egos are higher than their height.

Shots

While the building where the imaginary talent agency EGO is located is 42 Plaza^[a] in Istanbul - Maslak,^[5] the house where the Dicle character stayed for the first 3 episodes is in the Kurtuluş district of Şişli district. Some of the interior shots took place at the Beykoz Shoe Factory.^[6]

Cast and characters

Main characters

• Kıraç Özdal (Barış Falay): One of the managers of EGO and Dicle's father
• Çınar Bilgin (Fatih Artman): One of the managers of EGO.
• Dicle Ertem (Ahsen Eroğlu): Feris's assistant and Kıraç's Daughter
• Barış Havas (Deniz Can Aktaş): One of the actors that Feris manages.
• Peride Şener (Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu): One of the managers of EGO.
• Feris Dikmen (Canan Ergüder): One of the managers of EGO. She is self-confident and has a tough personality. Dicle's boss. She went to the US for 6 months with Serkan. (1–35)
• Ceyda Yücesoy (Özge Borak): Serkan's old friend. EGO's partner and later new owner.
• Serkan Tahtacı (Serhat Teoman): Former EGO Agency manager who returned home from the USA. Owner of Berlin Agency. They cannot get along with Kıraç. Later, he buys EGO Agency from Mayda's father and decides to merge the two agencies. He returned to the US with Feris. (12–35)

Side characters

• Gulin Yetik (Gamze Karaduman): Kıraç's assistant
• Emrah Ayoglu (Semi Sirtikkizil): Çinar's assistant
• Aydin Havas (Beran Kotan): Barış's brother
• Beren Özdal (Yaprak Medine): Kıraç's step daughter, Mayda's daughter and Barış's co-star

Guest artists

The artists listed below have appeared in one episode in which they portrayed themselves or fictional characters.

Episodes

It was broadcast on Tuesday evenings from episodes 1–8, and on Sunday evenings from episode 9.

Notes

International broadcasting

Call My Agent gained a lot of popularity among Turkic countries (especially in Azerbaijan), Iran (especially Iranian Azerbaijan), Balkans, Latin America (especially Colombia, Argentina and Pakistan where it has been a complete success), and Arab countries.

Country	Network	Local title	Series premiere	Timeslot
Chile	Mega	Llama a Mi Agente	20 April 2024	22:30 [7] 23:30
United States	Pasiones TV	Llama a Mi Agente	6 February 2024	19:00pm
Argentina	TNT	La Agencia	12 December 2023	22:30
Colombia	Caracol TV	Llama a Mi Agente	28 May 2024	15:30 [8]
Peru	Latina televisión	La Agencia	soon (2024)

References

External links

• Menajerimi Ara on official website of Star TV

This page was last edited on 29 April 2024, at 12:54