'A Grande Familia' (The Big Family) is a critically-acclaimed comedy and one of the most-watched shows in
Brazil. The show is airs on
Globo and tells the story of a typical lower
middle-class family living in a
suburb neighborhood in
Rio de Janeiro.
The family consists of the working father, Lineu, the housewive mother, Nenem, the son Tuco, the daughter Bebel and Bebel's fiance, the typical carioca "malandro" and a taxi driver, Agostinho. There was also the grandpa, Floriano, but after the actor death, the character was killed too.
A movie based on the series premiered on
January 10,
2007.