Endless Love (2015 TV series)

For other uses, see Blind Love.

Endless Love
Kara Sevda number 1
GenreDrama
Love
Romance
Written byÖzlem Yılmaz
Burcu Görgün Toptaş
Anil Eke
Directed byHilal Saral
StarringBurak Özçivit
Neslihan Atagül
Kaan Urgancıoğlu
Fahriye Evcen
Orhan Deniz
Damla Öykü
Orhan Güner
Neşe Baykent
Zeyno Eracar
Rüzgar Aksoy
Barış Alpaykut
Hazal Filiz Küçükköse
Burak Sergen
Zerrin Tekindor
Melisa Aslı Pamuk
Gökay Müftüoglü
Ali Burak Ceylan
ComposerToygar Işıklı
Country of originTurkey
Original languageTurkish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes74
Production
ProducerKerem Çatay
Running time113–158 minutes
Production companyAy Yapım
Original release
NetworkStar TV
Release14 October 2015 (2015-10-14) –
21 June 2017 (2017-06-21)
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Endless Love (Turkish: Kara Sevda, literal translation Dark Love) is a Turkish drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Star TV between 2015 and 2017.[1] Directed by Hilal Saral, it stars Burak Özçivit , Neslihan Atagül and Kaan Urgancıoğlu.

The series has become a milestone in the international history of Turkish series, receiving the International Emmy Award for Best Telenovela in 2017,[2][3][4] and becoming the first Turkish series to win the award.[5][6]

Similarly, Kara Sevda received the special jury award at the Seoul International Drama Awards.[7]

Four years after the end of Kara Sevda, the series was awarded as The Best International Soap Opera at the Soap Awards France 2021.[8] Burak Özçivit and Neslihan Atagül were the only Turkish actors nominated for Best International Actor and Best International Actress, respectively.[9][10]

According to Can Okan, founder and CEO of Inter Medya, the international distributor of the series, "words are useless when talking about the success of Kara Sevda".[11][12] It has become one of the most watched Turkish series in the world,[13] being broadcast in more than 110 countries with successful audiences and has been translated into more than 50 languages.[12]

During its broadcast in the United States through Univision, it became the most watched foreign soap opera and the Turkish series with the highest audience. Kara Sevda remains the most watched series in Hispanic prime time, with more than 2 million viewers every day, and close to 4 million in its final episode.[14]

Such has been the overwhelming success of the series that in the Wax Museum of Tashkent City Park in Uzbekistan, two figures of Kemal and Nihan are exhibited,[15] the main characters of the series, in the part dedicated to Istanbul.

Kara Sevda's YouTube channel accumulated almost 3 billion views, being one of the most viewed Turkish series on the platform.[16]

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  8. ^ "Amour éternel / Kara Sevda (Soap Awards 2021) : « Nous avons écrit le scénario avec le public du monde entier »". Toutelatele (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Burak Özçivit, singurul actor turc nominalizat în Franța la SOAP AWARDS 2021". VIAȚA CU AROMĂ DE CAFEA (in Romanian). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Neslihan Atagül Nominated for the 'Best Actress Award' in France". Al Bawaba. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Amor Eterno | Inter Medya". intermedya.tv. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  12. ^ a b Television, The Daily (1 June 2021). "Rusia, nuevo gran mercado para un gran éxito, [i]Endless Love[/i], de Inter Medya". The Daily Television (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  13. ^ DE FREITAS, LISETH (2021). "Enamórate con el top 10 de las telenovelas turcas más vistas en todo el mundo".
  14. ^ MAG, NOTICIAS (20 June 2021). "The Blacklist: cuál es la verdadera identidad de Red / Raymond Reddington | Temporada 8 | Series de Netflix nnda nnlt | FAMA". Mag. (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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