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''Singles'' (also written ''s1NgLEs'') is a Greek
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dramedy series created and produced by Giorgos Fidas. The series premiered on Mega Channel on January 18, 2005 and concluded on June 11, 2008. The series presents the lives of a group of young people, working and relationships between them, erotic and social. Each episode is described by the heroes (mainly by Rania) theories of life and we see how it is applied to the life of each character, other and his social environment, while through the series various social issues are discussed such as friendship, sexuality, family and most importantly the relationships of people nowadays. The main characters of the series are that of Rania and that of Lilas. In each cycle of the series the lead cast receives changes by adding and removing characters with the above two roles remaining in the series from its beginning to its end. The first season aired in the second half of the 2004-05 season and had a great response from mainly young audiences, so the series scheduled to be continued and second season. As a result of the pregnancy of actress
Maria Solomou Maria Solomou ( gr, Μαρία Σολωμού, born 1 October 1974 in Athens, Attica, Greece) is a Greek actress in television, theatre and cinema. She studied economy at the American College of Greece and acting at drama school "Iasmos – Vasili ...
during the end of the very first season, her character Rania was rewritten as also getting pregnant and went under one season hiatus. The series restarted in autumn of 2006 with the début of its second season, with changes in the structure of the series cast, consisting of main characters Maria Solomou in the role of Rania and Sunny Chatziargiri in the role of Lila. From October 2007 until January 2008 the series were named as S1ngles 2½, since the stories of the second season didn't come to a close yet. In February 2008, the first episode of the S1ngles 3 chapter introduced new characters and storylines and the show's final episode aired in June 2008.


Cast


Main Cast


Season 1 (2004-05)

* Panagiota Vlanti as Maro Petropoulou * Maximos Moumouris as Orestis Stergiou *
Maria Solomou Maria Solomou ( gr, Μαρία Σολωμού, born 1 October 1974 in Athens, Attica, Greece) is a Greek actress in television, theatre and cinema. She studied economy at the American College of Greece and acting at drama school "Iasmos – Vasili ...
as Rania Konstantakatou * Odisseas Papaspiliopoulos as Arthuros Papaikonomou * Sunny Chatziargiri as Lila Steni * Stamatis Zakolikos as Spiros * Antonis Fragkakis as Lucas Seretis


Season 2 (2006-07)

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Maria Solomou Maria Solomou ( gr, Μαρία Σολωμού, born 1 October 1974 in Athens, Attica, Greece) is a Greek actress in television, theatre and cinema. She studied economy at the American College of Greece and acting at drama school "Iasmos – Vasili ...
as Rania Konstantakatou * Sunny Chatziargiri as Lila Steni * Ares Servetalis as Fotis Lagoudakis * Giorgos Seitaridis as Nontas Peristeropoulos * Sokratis Patsikas as Billy Chatziantoniou * Stefi Poulopoulou as Katerina Koukoutsaki


Season 3 & 4 (2007-08)

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Maria Solomou Maria Solomou ( gr, Μαρία Σολωμού, born 1 October 1974 in Athens, Attica, Greece) is a Greek actress in television, theatre and cinema. She studied economy at the American College of Greece and acting at drama school "Iasmos – Vasili ...
as Rania Konstantakatou * Sunny Chatziargiri as Lila Steni * Ares Servetalis as Fotis Lagoudakis * Sokratis Patsikas as Billy Chatziantoniou * Stefi Poulopoulou as Katerina Koukoutsaki


Guest star

* Mirto Alikaki as Sofia * Leonardo Sfontouris as Petros Katartzis * Christina Panagiotidou as Gogo * Marinos Desillas as Miltos Samaras * Fani Spiridaki as Luisa * Vlasis Fidas as Aggelos Seretis * Fillipos Gkotsopoulos as Lucas Seretis Jr. * Panagiotis Bougiouris as Giannis Seretis * Eleni Kallia as Aggeliki Sereti * Vaggelis Takos as Pavlos Markidis * Giorgos Chrisostomou as Makis Chatzoglou *
Panos Mouzourakis Panagiotis Mouzourakis (born 24 May 1979) is a Greek singer, songwriter, actor and artist. He is known for his participation in the Greek television series, ''Singles'' and ''4''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mouzourakis, Pa ...
as "Tzampa" * Antonis Karistinos as James White


Characters


Main

* Maro Petropoulou, (season 1) Maro is a woman who dreams of small weddings and wedding dresses. She is looking to find her prince in a city where there are only men willing to have a relationship for just one night. Unfortunately, Maro quickly realizes this and "compromises" in a relationship with Orestis. * Orestis Stergiou (season 1, recurring season 2-3) Orestis is a man who likes well-being and women. He plays it tough, but deep down he's in love with Maro. To overcome her later travels to countries abroad helping Billy in a case. * Rania Konstantakatou (season 1-4) Rania is a woman who has learned to live alone, without men and without friends. She's a self-centered character who thinks she's constantly right and criticizes everyone around her. She gets angry at the slightest and has a goal in her life to succeed in her job and make a career. * Arthuros Papaikonomou (season 1) Arthuros is a shy man, who has a complex with his name and is afraid to talk to women, especially Luisa with whom he is also in love. In Lila's attempt to help him they fall in love resulting in Lila making her first permanent relationship. * Lila Steni (season 1-4) Lila is a woman whose priority is her friends and her men. She cannot live without her company and casual sex and in particular she wants to help other people solve their love problems. She does not dream of making a career, even though she has worked as a model. * Spiros (season 1) He is gay, yet he hides it from his parents and his friends. She is ashamed to confess it and often gets into various misunderstandings, such as when she made up with her partner, Gogo. * Lucas Seretis (season 1, recurring season 3-4) Lucas is the great love of Rania. They fall in love at first, then he suffers amnesia from an accident and Rania thinks him dead. But when he appears alive again Rania tries to restore his memory. * Fotis Lagoudakis (season 2-4) Fotis is romantic, relaxed and innocent. He believes that every person, however cruel, hides in him a kind-hearted character and tolerates the behavior of anyone giving countless opportunities to people. The fact that he is such a good person makes him a victim of exploitation to others and he always ends up lost. * Nontas Peristeropoulos (season 2) Peristeropoulos is a cadet in the army and is what we call a "genuine scumbag". He drinks, burps, rarely washes and lives loaded in the lives of others. He is a "parasite" who has a life purpose to live on his couch, putting others to do his jobs. Nevertheless, he is kind-hearted and sympathizes in his way with anyone in need. * Billy Chatziantoniou (season 2-4) Billy is complexed with his weight and constantly reduces himself. No one accepts him and has closed in his online world with his friend the internet. All he's waiting for is to invent a way to eat over the internet so he doesn't have to go out at all. * Katerina Koukoutsaki (season 2-4) Katerina is clumsy and naive. Nevertheless he has a dream of making a career in journalism. Luck tells her to shut herself up in a room and give up life, but she doesn't say to put it down so she gets into embarrassing situations.


Guest star

* Sophia (season 1) She is the daughter of a businessman-godfather of the night and "paranoid" stuck in a platonic relationship with Orestes. Although he is sweet, he makes his life difficult and envies anyone who surrounds him. She goes so far as to have her dad's henchmen kidnap him along with Maro. * Petros Katartzis (season 1) He is Maro's partner and future husband. He's smart, successful and has his own drawing board. But behind all these qualities that dazzle Maro, there is one great flaw: she is a woman hunter. When Maro discovers that his behavior towards her is distant because he is cheating on her, she abandons him. * Gogo (season 1) She is the friend and colleague of Orestis, smart and with guts. She has an affair with Miltos and later learns that her partner had a secret affair with Spiros. * Miltos Samaras (season 1) He is Gogo's companion, a romantic companion but also quite secretive person. He has a hidden relationship with Spiros and hides his sexual identity from Gogo, storytelling them both. * Aggelos Seretis (recurring season 1-4) He is the son of Luke, who grows up without his mother and refuses after her death to retaliate with any one. Although at first he disapproves of Rania, later he will love her very much. Aggeliki will deprive him of the ability to see her and his brother, but in the end everything will change. * Lucas Seretis Jr. (season 2, recurring season 3-4) He is Rania's little son, very smart and understands his mother very well. Rania has taken out on him all the love that she had not taken out on anyone all these years. When Aggeliki wins custody of him, he and Aggelos manage to escape to get custody of both Rania. * Giannis Seretis (season 2, recurring season 3) He is Lucas's brother, also in love with Rania. For this reason, after Lucas's "death" he lied to her about his last name and when the truth was discovered Rania was outraged and beat him badly. However, he was always willing to help in cases where Rania needed help. * Aggeliki Sereti (season 2-3, recurring season 4) She is the" wicked mother-in-law " of Rania and mother of Lucas and Giannis. He does everything to claim custody of Lucas Jr., son of Rania. * Pavlos Markidis (season 2-3, recurring season 4) Aggeliki's faithful housekeeper, who helps her in her schemes. He is highly manipulative and often the instigator of the situations that arose. * Makis Chatzoglou (recurring season 2, season 3-4) He is a bit silly and naive. But everyone likes him, because despite the fact that he has a gun license he would never hurt anyone. He keeps talking nonsense, but sometimes he "flies" and no good idea. * "Tzampa" (season 3-4) He has been fighting with money since he was a child. He detests any item of valuable value and prefers a friend to a dvd recorder, as he says " Love, Love and friendship are not bought."It is his life's purpose to travel by hitchhiking and meet new places and people. * James White (season 3-4) He is the boss of Rania. Chauvinist and fallocrat, he believes that a woman can rise as long as she falls first on all fours under his desk. She thinks no woman is worthy of doing a proper job, which angers Rania immeasurably, who has always been typical in such matters.


Series overview

A total of 75 episodes have been aired.


Episodes


Season 1 (2004-05)

Directed by: Panagiotis Kravvas Air date: Tuesday at 22:40.


Season 2 (2006-07)

Directed by: Stefanos Blatsos Air date: Wednesday at 22:00 (Ep. 22-32), Wednesday at 22:50 (Ep. 33-49).


Season 3 (2007-08)

Directed by: Stefanos Blatsos Air date: Wednesday at 23:00. * The episodes are divided into two parts and have a title for each part.


Season 4 (2007-08)

Directed by: Stefanos Blatsos Air date: Wednesday at 22:30. * The four last episodes aired double at June 4 and June 11, 2008.


External links

* {{IMDb title, 0454370 Mega Channel original programming 2000s Greek television series 2004 Greek television series debuts 2008 Greek television series endings