New Life (Yeni Hayat) (translated)

Yeni Hayat ("New Life") is a short-run Turkish series on Kanal D that mixes action, drama and romance. OJO Pictures is credited with the production. It premiered on 3 September 2020 and ended with its ninth episode on 29 October 2020. The launch had been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The story is a loose adaptation of the British series Bodyguard, carrying that show's central idea to Turkey.

The hero is Adem, played by Serkan Çayoğlu. For various reasons Adem has to leave the military, begins a civilian life and takes a job as a bodyguard. A businessman with many enemies approaches him to protect his wife Yasemin. Melisa Aslı Pamuk plays Yasemin and Tayanç Ayaydın plays the businessman. As the assignment goes on, an impossible love grows between Adem and Yasemin, and that love is the series' main axis. Nilperi Şahinkaya plays Adem's wife Nevin, Nisa Sofya Aksongur plays his daughter Ece, and İpek Filiz Yazıcı is also in the cast.

Başak Soysal and Cem Özüduru directed, and the script was written by Elif Usman, Serdar Soydan and Deniz Büyükkırlı. In Brazil the series is known as Uma Vida Nova.