My Big Fat Greek Life

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My Big Fat Greek Life is a short-lived situation comedy series that ran on CBS in 2003. The series was based on the 2002 box-office hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by HBO Television and Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions for Sony Pictures Television. Where 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). All seven episodes of this program are available on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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[edit] Premise

The series, which is set in Chicago, follows the main character from the film, Nia Portokalos, as she tries to deal with both her family and her new husband, Thomas Miller, an English teacher who still doesn't seem to fit in with her family's Greek traditions. Despite the help and interference from 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) the owners of the Greek restaurant where Nia works, her brother Nick, who's not so bright and has a little bit of a love/hate feeling for Thomas, her wise Aunt Voula and her gossipy cousin Nikki.

[edit] Miscellanea

  • In the movie, Vardalos' character is named Toula, but was changed to Nia for the series.
  • In the Movie, Toula's Husband is Ian, but his name changes to Thomas for this series.
  • Toula and Ian had a daughter in the film, but in the series there is no mention of her.
  • In the film Toula worked at a travel agency, but in the series she still worked at her family's restaurant.
  • John Corbett was the only cast member from the film who couldn't make the transition from film to TV because of a deal he made to star in the FX series Lucky. He was scheduled to make an appearance on My Big Fat Greek Life, but it was cancelled before it could happen. Unfortunately, Corbett's Lucky was unlucky as well: FX cancelled it after 13 episodes, but had it continued Vardalos would have made a guest appearance on that show.
  • Originally Vardalos pitched the idea of turning My Big Fat Greek Wedding into a series for TV but it was turned down. It wasn't until the film's success that CBS gave her the green light to bring it to TV.

[edit] Cast

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