Menajerimi Ara (transl. "Call My Manager") is a Turkish comedy and drama 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. Blending drama and comedy, the series centers around the lives of four managers with their assistants at a prestigious talent agency. With each episode, actors from the cinema and television industry participate in the series as guests and portray themselves. Adapted from the French TV series Dix pour cent. The series ended with its 45th episode, which was broadcast on July 11, 2021.
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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), Kıraç's neglected daughter, also enters this wild world for the first time, starting from the bottom (as Feris's assistant) in her 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 in Istanbul - Maslak, 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.
Cast and characters
Kıraç Özdal (Barış Falay): One of the managers of EGO and Dicle's father. (1-45)
Çınar Bilgin (Fatih Artman): One of the managers of EGO. (1-45)
Dicle Ertem (Ahsen Eroğlu): Feris's assistant and Kıraç's Daughter. (1-45)
Barış Havas (Deniz Can Aktaş): One of the actors that Feris manages, and later Dicle's boyfriend. (1-45)
Peride Şener (Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu): One of the managers of EGO. (1-45)
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. (1–45)
Serkan Tahtacı (Serhat Teoman): Former EGO Agency manager who returned home from the USA. Owner of Berlin Agency. He and Kıraç can't get along. Later, he buys EGO Agency from Mayda's father and decides to merge the two agencies. He returned to the US with Feris. (12–45)
Ceyda Yücesoy (Özge Borak): Serkan's old friend. EGO's partner and later new owner. A manipulative and pretentious person who often resorts to dirty and dishonest tactics, she's not liked by anyone at EGO. (29-45)
Gulin Yetik (Gamze Karaduman): Kıraç's assistant. (1-45)
Emrah Ayoglu (Semi Sirtikkizil): Çinar's assistant. (1-45)
Aydin Havas (Beran Kotan): Barış's brother. (1-45)
Beren Özdal (Yaprak Medine): Kıraç's step daughter, Mayda's daughter and Barış's co-star and asumed girlfriend among the media. At first friendly with Dicle, she turns into her enemy after learning that she's Kıraç's daughter and for her relationship with Barış, trying to sabotage and incriminate Dicle on several occasions. (1-45)
Guest artists
The artists listed below have appeared in one episode in which they portrayed themselves or fictional characters.