Dιo Xenoi (English: Two Strangers) is the title of a Greek romance comedy television series aired by Mega Channel in the 1997–1999 seasons.
The title of the series is inspired by the lyrics of the song "The Sign" written to music by Marios Tokas and performed by Konstantina and Yiannis Parios.
[1][2][3] Konstantinos Markoras is a professor of ancient drama at the theatre workshop that he works with his close friend and actor, Petros Stavrou.
His mother, Deni Markora, is a wealthy widow, resourceful, humorous, fanatical fan of Panathinaikos F.C., who negatively influenced Konstantinos's psychology when he was still a child, and today still makes him furious.
When the courtship of Deni, Nikiforos Kasimatis, who runs a TV channel, realizes that the ratings have fallen, he decides to enter the space of the cultural guests at the shows, which leads Deni to propose to Konstantinos to appear on Marina Kountouratou's morning show, Morning Smile.
They will soon form a secret bond, which will be learned by the editor-in-chief of the morning and Marina's friend, Tolis Sideratos, Petros and finally Deni.
This move will annoy both Konstantinos and Deni, who will begin to distance herself from Marina and discredit her wherever she finds her (events that unfold in the Forbidden episode of the series).
At the same time, Konstantinos and Deni will be active in television, he as director and she as producer of a TV series, the main cast will be his students: Daphne, Dinos, Dimitris, Vasilis, Diana -who courted Nikiforos and separated him from Deni to get a TV role- Fotis, Ava and Spyros who will help him in directing.
The huge success it experienced made Mega to have greater demands from the production and creators already in the middle of the first season.
The first was that of Nikos Sideris judging that the role of Lambis had made its circle in history, and the second resounding was that of Alexandra Paleologou, who chose to leave in order to star in a new series of ANT1.
Although the filming of the second season started early in order to release the actors who will leave and the scenes of Papoulia to take place before her pregnancy proceeds, after the Christmas gap made it difficult to make the filming so that the main plot was put on the back burner, to introduce new stories and as a result the viewers' interest decreased.