"Liza And All The Others" may not have been the great commercial success, but judging by the reactions of young women after the release of the DVD, the film not only found its audience but also acquired fanatical followers."Hardly Ever" was Katerina Bei’s "Liza" squared, with four leading ladies instead of two and 20 45-minute episodes.

Kostas Lambropoulos who wanted to propose the series to the NET public channel, knowing that I hadn’t yet economically recovered from "The Bubble", suggested me to direct the first 5 episodes. My only TV experience was the design of the five episodes of "Felix Krull" and the 5th episode of the also German series "Kir Royal", so because of my inexperience the five episodes came out six.

The first scenarios of "Hardly Ever" facilitated my decision, because the characters of the four "young and successful" women were very realistic and different as well, with unique common interest the quest for the ideal man, lover and companion -or only one of them. After the efforts of Lisa and Claire, the four handsome heroines and their choices, created in me great curiosity and suspense. As planned the shooting continued Dimitris Giatzoutzakis and Christos Dimas, apparently successfully, since NET ordered another 10. But because since then such processes in public institutions delayed, main actresses and directors left for various reasons. The most common was that in the meantime there were other probably more advantageous options proposals. It was the golden era when public and private channels were shooting in the mean time in parallel more than 40 series and good actors were in great demand. Bei continued writing scripts for a younger generation of heroines with similar concerns. And because I had served the series earlier and someone had to coach the new cast, I shot again the first five and I admit that I enjoyed the most. This time I settled to five, leaving as I saw, much room for improvement to the much more experienced Pigi Dimitrakopoulou.

Four professionally successful, attractive women around thirty - Mary, a radio producer; Stephanie, a volunteer in a battered women NGO; Vanda, a rising actress; and Kalia, a fashion designer and boutique-owner - have set their sights on finding a «regular» guy with a view to falling in love.

The constant need to analyze situations, to set parameters and criteria depending on their own strong points and according to how they think their relationships ought to be, and to keep trying to function through recipes and stereotypes, makes them anxious and often leads them to dead ends.

However, they face situations with humour and manage to laugh at themselves. They don’t hesitate to live adventures, even with foregone inglorious ends. Passion follows frustration, cynicism succeeds romance, illusion takes the place of excitement, and the drama becomes comical, as the four heroines continue, sometimes confidently and sometimes insecurely, to walk the tightrope between freedom and commitment, between the ideal relationship and compromise.

In the second cycle the heroines are as much as a decade younger and not yet successful, but their main goal is the same and they are already involved in its problems.