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". 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". 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" 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 June 10, 2011 after airing nine episodes. The fourth season started airing in Bulgaria on October 31, 2011, a day after the Bulgarian Presidential Election, with the subtitle "The Punishment".
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 networkFacebook, the show has over 200,000 fans. 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 August 1, 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 October 3, 2011.
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 cencelled 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 July 25, 2010 at 2AM with the name "Sırça Saray". They cancelled it too after the first season. In the beginning of 2011, bTV announced that a deal has been made with four more countries to air the series. They were Croatia, Greece, Serbia and Romania. 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 July 10, 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 has bought the rights for the "Season of the Bulgarian TV Series" and 7 hours of time difference and the most successful Bulgarian film, Mission London. Since then, the series has been a big commercial success.
