The Ranch (2006 TV series)

It follows the story of Lucy Wilska, a Polish-American who has inherited her great grandmother's country home in the fictional small village of Wilkowyje.

She arrives in Wilkowyje with intent to sell the cottage but, after seeing the charm of the village, decides to stay.

Lucy Wilska – an American of Polish descent, who inherits her grandmother's manor house in a small village Wilkowyje in eastern Poland.

Jakub "Kusy" Sokołowski – a former famous abstract painter, who went through a breakdown and fell into alcoholism after the death of his first wife.

Early in the series, he lives in a cottage next to Lucy's manor and helps her in its renovation.

Under Lucy's influence, Kusy quits drinking and paints again, which no one in the town understands.

He pursues an artist career in later seasons with help of an art agent Monika.

He's smart, highly educated and brave - in one episode he organizes the whole town's defense against the mob.

Lucy herself didn't find out his real name until the day of their wedding, and even after that she still always calls him "Kusy".

Piotr Kozioł – the parish priest of Wilkowyje's Roman Catholic Church and twin brother of Mayor Paweł Koziol.

Most of the time he's kind, well-meaning, and cares for the public good, but to some extent also shares his brother's greedy and impetuous personality often getting in power and influence struggles with the Mayor.

An example from the first season includes both the Priest and the Mayor fighting for control over the only local newspaper, each trying to censor it and use it as his own propaganda tool.

Priest Kozioł quickly gets in friendly relations with Lucy and often supports her in her initiatives, but sometimes finds himself at odds with her progressive ideas.

He's corrupt, dishonest and incompetent in office and cares mostly about his personal interests, often resorting to blackmail, threats and power abuse to achieve his goals.

Due to his own and Czerepach's manipulations and propaganda and his incompetence, his vulgarity is often mistaken for eccentricity and a sign of protest against the establishment (an homage by the show to the character of Nikodem Dyzma, a popular figure of Polish literature and TV - an uneducated simpleton who starts a successful political career by a series of misunderstandings).

Just before the elections, he is frightened by the office's responsibility and decides to take his new role seriously, rather than just another means to achieve his personal goals.

He's much better educated than Kozioł, but in early seasons remains psychopathic towards the Mayor, while sometimes also working against him behind his back.

The Mayor initially approves, but changes his mind when he discovers Czerepach started to collect incriminating information about him as well.

Czerepach gets back in season 3 with a large sum of money and intends to get his revenge on the Mayor.

He is forced to leave Wilkowyje again, when a woman from Brussels arrives, revealing that he seduced her and stole her money while posing under the name of Paweł Kozioł.

He gets back again in season 4, this time promising the Mayor help to get him reelected in the upcoming election.

His new wife initially forbids him to get involved in politics and Czerepach gets a job outside it, but after some time he convinces Leokadia that his talents are wasted there and she allows him to work with Mayor again on his electoral campaign for the place in the Senate.

Solejukowa lived with her alcoholic husband and their seven children in a cottage near the forest, but she became friends with Hadziukowa and Więcławska and then earned a lot of money.

Ranczo is set in the fictional small town of Wilkowyje, located near Radzyń Podlaski.

The show is mainly filmed in Jeruzal, with scenes involving the exterior of one of the homes shot at a cottage located in Sokule.