Magnificent Century will be on air in China, Italy and Lithuania

Historical Turkish soap opera popular television series Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl) has added Chinese pubcaster CCTV, Italian multi-ethnic broadcaster Babel and Lithuanian commercial channel LNK to its international broadcasts. The popular television series, which is in its 4th season in Turkey, is about the tenth and longest-reigning Emperor, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent, his era and his wife Roxelana (Hürrem Sultan).

Magnificent Century has been a major seller for distributor Global Agency around the world, with CEO Izzet Pinto claiming it has now reaches a total audience of more than 200 million across 48 territories. The show is a huge success in Balkans where it is the most watched TV show in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013 and the fourth most successful show in Serbia.

Magnificent Century has been on air not only in many traditional Turkish TV show consumer markets in Balkans, Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa but it was also shown in Russia, Pakistan, Ukraine and Czech Republic.

Magnificent Century

The show stars Halit Ergenç as Sultan Süleyman and Meryem Uzerli as Hürrem Sultan. Magnificent is a nickname given to Sultan Suleiman by West. He is known as Kanuni (The Lawgiver) because he personally instituted major legislative changes relating to society, education, taxation, and criminal law. His life and era is not only interesting because he has overseen the “Golden” age of the Ottoman Empire in its artistic, literary and architectural development, he has also broken with Ottoman tradition and married a harem girl Roxelana, a Ukrainian who has later became Hürrem Sultan, one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and a prominent figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.