Glass Home (, ) was a Bulgarian drama series created by bTV. It's a family drama and the executive producers were Dimitаr Mitovski and Dimitаr Gochev from "Camera OOD". It aired in bTV's primetime. Some of Bulgaria's most famous actors star in the series, which was directed by Viktor Bojinov and Petar Rusev.
Summary In the beginning of 2010, bTV announced that a new Bulgarian show was shot, starting in February 2010. On 11 April 2010 the first season premieres and continues to 20 June the same year. After a short pause, the second season begins on 26 September and it's titled "Glass Home: Time for Truth" (Bulgarian: "Стъклен дом: Време за истина"). 13 episodes were shown and the show went on another pause, which ended with the beginning of second half of the second season: "Glass Home: Time for Truth - The Resolution" (Bulgarian: "Стъклен дом: Време за истина - Развръзката"). On 30 March, bTV announced that season 3 started on 11 April 2011, exactly one year after the show's first episode aired, and with no break between Season 2 and 3. It is called "Glass Home: The Temptation" (Bulgarian: "Стъклен дом: Изушението") and it takes place three years after the finale of the second season. One of the storylines of this season is Elena's husband, who later becomes the president of Bulgaria. The season ended on 10 June 2011 after airing nine episodes. The fourth season started airing in Bulgaria on 31 October 2011, a day after the Bulgarian Presidential Election, with the subtitle "The Punishment" (Bulgarian: "Стъклен дом: Наказанието").
Ratings
In Bulgaria Glass Home was one of the most watched programs in the history of Bulgarian television, with all episodes gaining ratings higher than a million viewers, which in a country with a total population less than 7 million was a big success, and the most watched with over 1.8 million. In the social network Facebook, the show has over 200,000 fans (or "likes"). It even has more likes than its broadcasting channel, bTV.
In Turkey FOX Turkey aired the first season Thursdays at 2am, which led to the low ratings in the country. The ratings continued decreasing and FOX decided to cancel the series.
In Macedonia Glas Home was widely promoted and gained big success in Macedonia. It premiered on 1 August 2011 on Kanal 5. The channel aired the three seasons Monday through Friday at 7.50 PM. The third season started in a new timeslot at 10 AM and no reason or explanation about the move was given. The third season finale aired on 3 October 2011.
Seasons and airdates {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! style="padding: 0px 8px" colspan="2"| Season ! style="padding: 0px 8px"| Timeslot ! style="padding: 0px 8px"| Subtitle ! style="padding: 0px 8px"| Episodes ! style="padding: 0px 8px"| TV Season ! style="padding: 0px 40px"| Premiere ! style="padding: 0px 30px"| Finale |- |bgcolor="green" height="10px"| |1 |Sunday, 8 PM |Everything has its price |11 |2010 (spring) |11 April 2010 |20 June 2010 |- |bgcolor="red" height="10px"| |2 | rowspan="3" | Monday, 8 PM |Time for Truth(2.1)The Resolution(2.2) |17 |2010 (autumn)2011(spring) |26 September 2010 (2.1)14 March 2011 (2.2) |13 December 2010 (2.1)4 April 2011 (2.2) |- |bgcolor="brown" height="10px"| |3 |The Temptation |9 |2011 (spring) |11 April 2011 |6 June 2011 |- |bgcolor="black" height="10px"| |4 |The Punishment |18 |2011 (autumn) |31 October 2011 |19 December 2011 |- |bgcolor="aqua" height="10px"| |5 | Monday, 8 PM |The Salvation |9 |2012 (spring) |16 April 2012 |11 June 2012
Season 1 (2010) Glass Home Season 1 No Airdate 1 (1-01) 11 April 2010 2 (1-02) 18 April 2010 3 (1-03) 25 April 2010 4 (1-04) 2 May 2010 5 (1-05) 9 May 2010 6 (1-06) 16 May 2010 7 (1-07) 23 May 2010 8 (1-08) 30 May 2010 9 (1-09) 6 June 2010 10 (1-10) 13 June 2010 11 (1-11) 20 June 2010
Season 2 (2010-2011)
Glass Home Season 2.0: Time for Truth No Airdate 12 (2-01) 26 September 2010 13 (2-02) 27 September 2010 14 (2-03) 4 October 2010 15 (2-04) 11 October 2010 16 (2-05) 18 October 2010 17 (2-06) 25 October 2010 18 (2-07) 1 November 2010 19 (2-08) 8 November 2010 20 (2-09) 15 November 2010 21 (2-10) 22 November 2010 22 (2-11) 29 November 2010 23 (2-12) 6 December 2010 24 (2-13) 13 December 2010
Glass Home Season 2.5: Time for Truth: The Resolution No Airdate 25 (2-14) 14 March 2011 26 (2-15) 21 March 2011 27 (2-16) 28 March 2011 28 (2-17) 4 April 2011
Season 3 (2011) Glass Home Season 3: The Temptation No Airdate 29 (3-01) 11 April 2011 30 (3-02) 18 April 2011 31 (3-03) 25 April 2011 32 (3-04) 2 May 2011 33 (3-05) 9 May 2011 34 (3-06) 16 May 2011 35 (3-07) 23 May 2011 36 (3-08) 30 May 2011 37 (3-09) 6 June 2011
Season 4 (2011) Glass Home Season 4: The Punishment No Airdate 38/39 (4-01/02) 31 October 2011 40/41 (4-03/04) 7 November 2011 42/43 (4-05/06) 14 November 2011 44/45 (4-07/08) 21 November 2011 46/47 (4-09/10) 28 November 2011 48/49 (4-11/12) 5 December 2011 50/51 (4-13/14) 12 December 2011 52/53 (4-15/16) 19 December 2011 54/55 (4-17/18) 26 December 2011
Season 5 (2012) Glass Home Season 5: Salvation No Airdate 56 (5-01) 16 April 2012 57 (5-02) 23 April 2012 58 (5-03) 30 April 2012 59 (5-04) 7 May 2012 60 (5-05) 14 May 2012 61 (5-06) 21 May 2012 62 (5-07) 28 May 2012 63 (5-08) 4 June 2012 64 (5-09) 11 June 2012
Broadcasting Bulgaria bTV 11 April 2010 2012 Turkey Fox 25 July 2010 - Croatia RTL Televizija 11 July 2011 - Greece Alpha TV 4 July 2011 - Macedonia Kanal 5 1 August 2011 - Montenegro Prva TV 23 September 2013 - Serbia Prva TV TBA - Bosnia and Herzegovina ATV / Hayat Romania PRO TV -
After being a success in Bulgaria, a few broadcasting networks in the Balkan countries decided to buy the rights for the series. The first one to do so was Kanal D, in Turkey, which bought the right for the series and for future series in Bulgaria, but cancelled it later, because "the series isn't suitable for the Turkish audience". Later, however, FOX Turkey bought the series and started airing it dubbed on 25 July 2010 at 2AM with the name "Sırça Saray". They cancelled it too after the first season. At the beginning of 2011, bTV announced that a deal has been made with four more countries to air the series. They were Croatia (on RTL Televizija), Greece (Alpha TV), Serbia (Prva TV) and Romania (PRO TV). On 4 July, Alpha TV started airing Glass Home, with the name "Γυάλινος Κόσμος". However, the show received low ratings and Alpha TV stopped airing it after only six episodes, on 10 July 2011. In Croatia, the series started in July 2011, and in Serbia and Romania the dates are yet to be announced. Later the same year, bTV announced that Kanal 5 (in Macedonia) has bought the rights for the "Season of the Bulgarian TV Series" (Including Glass Home, Too Many Metropolitans (lit. translation) and 7 hours of time difference (lit. translation) and the most successful Bulgarian film, Mission London (also produced by bTV). Since then, the series has been a big commercial success.
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