Programme Overview
Description
Your Family or Mine is a sitcom that takes place entirely over Friday and Saturday night dinners with the extended family.
Shani and Shai, married with children, attend family dinners every weekend at their respective parents’ homes: Friday with her parents and Saturday with his. Every episode begins in the family car, on the ride over to Shani’s folks’ place, and ends with the drive back home from Shai’s the following day. In between they’re immersed in their extended families and are obliged to deal with all their various quirks. The show’s all about how ritual family dinners operate on “autopilot”– you attend them whether you want to or not, you meet the same people, eat the same food, and mostly just try to survive the familial minefield.
The show also shines a light on a melting pot of cultures - Shani’s parents are Sephardic (Middle Eastern) Jews, Shai’s parents are European Ashkenazis - emphasizing the different mentalities of the two households and the ways in which Shai and Shani are forced to navigate not only their in-laws, but their cultural nuances as well.
With eight seasons produced in Israel, the US adaptation of Your Family or Mine was the third most popular series on TBS during its run behind The Big Bang Theory and Family Guy. Its finale delivered a season high for the channel among men 18–34 years.
With six seasons and over 300 episodes commissioned to date, the Greek adaptation of the series, To Soi Sou, airs two primetime episodes weekly on Alpha TV. Seasons 1-5 saw the series rise from the #10 show to the #5 show, increasing share by +34% and ratings by +58% on the channel average and beating out the Greek adaptation of Modern Family. Then, during its six-year hiatus, To Soi Sou continued to rank #1 in its timeslot. Season 6 premiered to record ratings of 38.9% share in October 2025, becoming the highest-rated debut episode of the series, the highest-rated scripted show on Alpha TV, and the highest-rated comedy show on Greek television in the previous five years!