Voroniny

The Voronins is a Russian adaption of the American TV show Everybody Loves Raymond, broadcast from 2009 to 2019. Starting with the 211th episode to its 552nd (and final) episode, the show was based on original scripts based on the show's adaptation writers and Jeremy Stevens, who was a writer on the original American series. The show's main stars are Georgy Dronov, Yekaterina Volkova, Boris Klyuyev, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Anna Frolovtseva. Duzhnikov gained 20 kg in order to get the role. During the filming of the show's 455th episode, it was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records as the longest adapted television show in the world. In 2015 the show was one of the top five most-watched Russian programs that were not series premieres.