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My Big Fat Greek Life

My Big Fat Greek Life
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Genre Sitcom
Created by Nia Vardalos
Starring Nia Vardalos
Steven Eckholdt
Lainie Kazan
Louis Mandylor
Michael Constantine
Andrea Martin
Gia Carides
Composer(s) John Adair
Steve Hampton
Chris Wilson
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 7
Production
Executive producer(s) Nia Vardalos
Tom Hanks
Rita Wilson
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Brad Grey Television
Marsh McCall Productions
Playtone Productions
Sony Pictures Television
Distributor Sony Pictures Television
Release
Original network CBS
Original release February 24 – April 13, 2003 (2003-04-13)

My Big Fat Greek Life is a sitcom series that ran on CBS in 2003. The series is a continuation of the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by HBO Television and Tom Hanks's Playtone Productions for Sony Pictures Television. The two lead characters' names are changed, from Toula to Nia, and Ian to Thomas.

In addition to being the series star, Nia Vardalos oversaw the show as one of the co-executive producers, along with Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson (who made a guest appearance in one episode as Nia's cousin).

The series, which is set in Chicago, follows the main character, Nia Portokalos, a middle class Greek-American woman, as she tries to deal with both her family and her new upper middle class WASP husband, Thomas Miller, an English teacher who still does not seem to fit in with her family's Greek traditions. Despite the help and interference from her family and her husband, Nia tries her best to stay grounded in various situations.

In addition to her husband, the family members in her "life" include her parents Maria (her mother) and Gus (her father), who are the owners of the Greek restaurant where Nia works, her brother Nick, who is not very bright and has a little bit of a love/hate feeling for Thomas, her wise Aunt Voula, and her gossipy cousin Nikki.

The sitcom premiered with high ratings, averaging 22.9 million viewers. Its debut was the highest-rated premiere of any network sitcom since NBC's Jesse. The following week ratings dropped 28%, averaging 16.5 million viewers, but surpassing FOX's The Simpsons which finished second place. However, the decline in ratings led to the sitcom's eventual cancellation by CBS.


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