The Prince (Prens)

Prens ("The Prince") arrived in June 2023 as a Turkish comedy series. Made for streaming, its first two seasons came out as BluTV originals, and the third reached viewers on HBO Max under the "Max Originals" label. Produced by MGX Film, it grew to 23 episodes over three seasons and won the Golden Butterfly Award for Best Comedy Series. Its origin is unusual: a character born on Giray Altınok's social media account drew so much attention that it was eventually turned into a series.

The story is set in the fictional country of Bongomia, whose history and whose people nobody cares about. After the sudden and suspicious death of King Thun, the throne passes to the Prince, whom no one takes seriously and whose family never bothered to give him a name, and a tangled chain of events begins. Altınok, one of the creators, plays the Prince. He is joined by Serdar Orçin, Ceyda Düvenci (Queen Sion), Aslı Tandoğan (Anarkhia), Bahadır Vatanoğlu (Larg), Çağdaş Onur Öztürk and Derya Pınar Ak, among others.

Altınok wrote the screenplay with Kerem Özdoğan, and Bülent İşbilen and Gökdeniz Uslu directed. The first episode's premiere gala took place at UNIQ Istanbul with the cast and crew attending.