Marta Katarzyna Wiktoria Wiśniewska, professionally known as Mandaryna, born Marta Mandrykiewicz on 12 March 1978 in Łódź, Poland, is a Polish singer, dancer and actress. She rose to fame as the dancer of Polish pop group Ich Troje, and the partner of its leader, Michał Wiśniewski. She embarked on a singing career in 2004, covering Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again", which became a hit in Poland. Her first two albums, Mandaryna.com and Mandarynkowy sen, released in 2004 and 2005, respectively, were met with commercial success. In 2005, Mandaryna sparked a major controversy during her performance at Sopot Festival, which exposed her alleged lack of vocal talent. Nonetheless, the performed song "Ev'ry Night" became a massive hit and remains arguably her best-known song to date.
TVN is a Polish free-to-air television station, network and a media and entertainment group in Poland. It was co-founded by Polish businessmen Mariusz Walter, Jan Wejchert and Swiss entrepreneur Bruno Valsangiacomo. It is owned by TVN Group, which as of April 2022, is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Current CEO is Kasia Kieli.
Na Wspólnej is a Polish television soap opera. It has been running since 2003 on the TVN channel as its flagship primetime weekday soap opera. It is loosely based on the German production Unter uns and it follows the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment block in Wspólna Street, Warsaw. Episodes tend to last around 20 minutes. It is a Polish version of the Hungarian Barátok közt. After 100 episodes production started to create own storylines.
Milionerzy (Millionaires) is a Polish game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The show is hosted by Hubert Urbański. The main goal of the game is to win 1 million Polish zloty by answering twelve multiple-choice questions correctly. There are three basic lifelines - fifty fifty, phone a friend and ask the audience ; and also two other lifelines - ask the expert and switch the question. From March to December 2010 contestant could choose risk game, where the second guaranteed sum was not guaranteed. The first series of Milionerzy was broadcast from 3 September 1999 to 26 January 2003, the second version was broadcast from 19 January 2008 to 19 December 2010, and the third version has been broadcast since 9 February 2017. Currently, it is shown every Monday to Thursday at 8:55 p.m on the Polish commercial television station TVN. The executive producer of the programme was Endemol in the first version, Intergalactic in the second version, and Jake Vision in the third version. Since 2008, when a contestant gets the second question correct, they will leave with 1,000 zł. When a contestant gets the seventh question correct, they will leave with 40,000 zł.
Na dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since 7 November 1999. It is the longest-running weekly primetime drama on Polish television and one of the longest-running medical dramas in the world. The show revolves around the lives of doctors and patients of a teaching hospital in a fictional town of Leśna Góra near Warsaw.
Marina Łuczenko-Szczęsna, known mononymously as Marina, is a Polish singer, songwriter and actress.
Tomasz Karolak is a Polish actor.
George the Hedgehog is a 2011 Polish animated black comedy film directed by Wojciech Wawszczyk, Jakub Tarkowski and Tomasz Leśniak. Based on the Jeż Jerzy comic books, it tells the story of two neo-Nazis and a mad scientist creating a clone of the title character in an attempt to defeat him.
True Law is a Polish legal drama television series directed by Maciej Migas and featuring Agnieszka Dygant as the title character, Agata Przybysz. It premiered on TVN on 4 March 2012. The plot is set in Warsaw.
Reguły Gry is a Polish sitcom directed by Bartłomiej Ignaciuk that premiered on TVN 7 on 16 February 2012. The filming began on 4 December 2011. The series is based on American format Rules of Engagement.
Medics, also known under the original title Lekarze, is a Polish medical drama which aired from 3 September 2012 to 30 November 2014 on TVN.
Roma Gąsiorowska-Żurawska is a Polish actress and fashion designer. She played the role of "Sylwia" in the movie Suicide Room. She is one of the TR Warszawa theatre's actors. Roma was interested in acting in high school, where she created her own theatre. She graduated from the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts. As a student, she started working in Teatr Rozmaitości. She debuted in Jerzy Stuhr's movie "Pogoda na Jutro".
Katarzyna Janina Łaniewska-Błaszczak was a Polish theatre and film actress, opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic, and a political activist since 1989.
Just Love Me is a 2006 Polish romantic comedy film directed by Ryszard Zatorski. It was awarded the Amber Lion at the Gdynia Film Festival for the highest-grossing film of the year, and was nominated for the Polish Film Award for Best Costumes.
Diagnosis is a Polish thriller medical drama produced by TVN. The series stars Maja Ostaszewska as the main character and debuted on TVN on 5 September 2017. The second series premiered on 20 February 2018.
Botoks is a 2017 Polish thriller film directed by Patryk Vega. It stars Olga Bołądź, Agnieszka Dygant, Katarzyna Warnke and Marieta Żukowska. It was shot in Warsaw, Paris, Copenhagen and Kenya. The title literally means "botox" in Polish.
Selected correspondence of Stanisław Lem was published in several books.
Mitja Okorn is a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. Most known as director of Letters to Santa, Planet Single and his Hollywood debut Life in a Year.
Niania is a Polish comedy television series directed by Jerzy Bogajewicz, which aired on TVN from 10 September 2005 to 24 October 2009. It was based on the American original The Nanny licensed by CBS, which aired in the 1990s.
Letters to Santa 2, is a 2015 Polish-language romantic comedy film, directed by Maciej Dejczer, that is a sequel to 2011 Letters to Santa film by Mitja Okorn. The action takes place during a Christmas Eve, and follows the lives of characters from the first film, focusing on various aspects of love as shown through separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown to be interlinked as the tales progress. As same as in the first film, its plot refers to the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually, though the events of differ in those films. The movie was produced by TVN, and distributed by Kino Świat. It was filmed in Warsaw, Poland, and premiered on 13 November 2015.
