Een Grote Familie: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Mother Julia moves into her new boyfriend Taco's house together with her 2 daughters Mies and Kees and son Guus. Taco also has 2 daughters (Zimbini and Lotus) from his previous marriage with Moon, and a son (Max) from a relationship before his first marriage.  That is a big change for everybody in this newly "put toghether" family. How do you handle different parenting styles, different norms and vallues, frustration, sadness over a divorce and the new bonus family members ? And to make matters even worse for Julia, her ex husband Dennis who was absent most of the marriage because he chose his work over his family, now decides he has to be there for the kids, and buys the houseboat directly opposite the street from Taco's house.

Series details

• Title: Een Grote Familie
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Dutch
• Premiere date: 2023-10-14
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: RTL4
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Videoland
• Network country: Netherlands
• Typical episode runtime: 41 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 71964
• IMDb ID: tt29457887
• TVDB ID: 439186

Cast and credited roles

• Chantal Janzen — Julia Smeets
• Lykele Muus — Taco van Heijningen
• Jeroen van Koningsbrugge — Dennis van Dam
• Moos Hofstra — Guus van Dam
• Josephine Arendsen — Michelle van Dam (Mies)
• Oskar D Transue — Max van Heijningen
• Doris Zuijderland — Kees van Dam
• Noelle Simson — Zimbini van Heijningen
• Silou Zijlstra — Lotus van Heijningen
• Selin Akkulak — Sumeya
• Joy Delima — Simone Alliander

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-10-14; final listed air date 2023-10-14.
• Season 2: premiered 2025-05-24; final listed air date 2025-05-24.

Source and licence

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