Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2023 (48 min)
In her 28 years, Angelina Slobodskova has a business, an expensive car and a large house where she lives with her parents and son from her first marriage. After her divorce from her husband, the girl was not looking for new relationships and was building a career. Until Emil appeared on the horizon... All would be nothing, but Emil is a prisoner! What will his parents say? Mum and dad are unlikely to be thrilled with her fiancé, who has been in prison three times....
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2023 (49 min)
Anna Kuvaldina, 37, was born and raised in Orsk. She lives in a two-room flat on the outskirts of the city and brings up her 9-year-old son Arseniy alone. As many waited, she met Dmitry on social networks. He immediately admitted that he is serving a sentence in prison, but Anna was not frightened by this. Against their relationship oppose their mother, sister and even the ex-husband. Because of the pressure of others, Anna stopped hearing herself and no longer knows what she wants. That's why she turned to the reality show "Zhduli" to understand whether she wants to marry a prisoner.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2023 (48 min)
Galina Korovkina, 36, lives in Pokrov, Vladimir region. Galina lives in a hostel and shares a room with her 18-year-old son Matvei. Her husband left the family when he learnt about her pregnancy. To raise her son, she has to work two jobs.
Like many waiting, she met Alexander on social networks. On the third day of communication, he admitted that he was serving a sentence. Initially Galina did not think about a serious relationship, but after two months she realised that she fell in love. Galina's son and mother think that the man works on a rotational basis, and do not even guess that Alexander is serving a sentence.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 21, 2023 (70 min)
Today's heroine is 27-year-old Alyona Ravkovich. She lives in the small town of Engels, single-handedly raising two sons and working as a driver in a taxi service. For a long time Alena's heart was closed from men, but everything changed one phone call from an unknown number...
Andrei Dorovskikh, 29, comes from Ulyanovsk and grew up in an orphanage. He is serving his sentence in Alyona's hometown. He got his first sentence at the age of 14 for shoplifting, got out a year later and went to jail again for 10 years. Now Andrei has a third sentence - for 6 years, he robbed a shop.
What made Alena tie her life to the man on the other side of the barbed wire? How will the family react to the connection with the prisoner? You will find out in the new issue of the reality show "Zhduli".
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 28, 2023 (45 min)
Our today's heroine is 29-year-old Yulia Zimarina from the town of Makariev. Yulia is bringing up two sons from her first marriage. After the divorce it was hard for the girl: the children's father did not pay alimony and was not interested in his sons. Julia's life was changed by one phone call from an unknown number ...
The man immediately told the girl about his dark past. The first term he got was 15 years for robbery of a food stall. The second - 3 years for robbery. And the third - 17 years for robbery by a group of persons. Serving the third term, Sergei received a fourth - for possession of illegal substances.
Relationship between Sergey and Julia lasts for 4 years and the girl is sure that it is true love. But she is not in a hurry to agree to a marriage proposal - she is afraid of judgement from society. How will the relatives react to the connection with the prisoner? You will find out in the new issue of the reality show "Zhduli".
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 4, 2023 (50 min)
Our heroine today is 30-year-old Veronika Shapareva. The girl lives in Ivanovo together with her two children: 5-year-old Leon and 5-month-old Vasilisa. Despite her daughter's age, Veronica continues to work as a general director of a construction company. In her spare time the girl is fond of cars and is a member of the Ivanovo club of car enthusiasts. At one of the club's events she was noticed by Nikolai Kuznetsov. But the man called only 4 months later - from the pre-trial detention centre.
Nikolai said that he was detained by traffic police officers when he was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. For this he was given 3 years in a penal colony. Veronica and Nikolai's relationship has lasted for more than a year. Once the man was allowed to spend 3 days with his girlfriend. And a month after this date Veronica realised that she was pregnant.....
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2024 (55 min)
38-year–old Ekaterina is a premium class taxi driver and mom. And she was already waiting for the second time – the woman's first husband was serving a sentence in prison, family happiness did not work out with him because of his addiction.
Despite the condemnation of her mother, who is categorically against her daughter's relationship with the convicted, Ekaterina fell in love with the man behind bars again. Sergey is 5 years younger than the woman and sits under the same article as her first husband…
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 5, 2024 (52 min)
Maria became a mum for the first time at the age of 19 and now, in her 24th year, the girl is pregnant again. The father of the second child, Andrei, has made her an offer - young people love each other and both want a family. Except that Andrei is behind bars. Because of constant quarrels with her grandmother and her own doubts, Maria does not accept Andrei's proposal yet...
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 12, 2024 (54 min)
The whole life of 40-year-old Lyudmila is spent in the concierge's room. The woman has not seen her children for three years, as they live in another city. And the middle son does not communicate with his mother even by phone - he categorically does not accept her man. The fact is that Lyudmila's chosen one is sitting in prison in Chita....
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 19, 2024 (61 min)
Ekaterina is 27 years old, divorced and raising a 4-year-old daughter. She is also in a relationship with an inmate....
When Sergey was sentenced to a 3rd term, he saw Ekaterina's profile and wrote to her. Soon Ekaterina realises that she has feelings for Sergei... But Ekaterina's loved ones do not accept her choice and insist on returning to her ex-husband.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 26, 2024 (46 min)
Relationship with her daughter or love? This is the question facing Olga. One year, and the beloved will be out, a happy family life is close at hand. But will Olga decide to continue the relationship, given that the eldest daughter stopped communicating with her because of her affair, because she wants to enter the Emergency Situations Ministry and mum's relationship can spoil her future.
Will Olga want to go against her relatives for the sake of her happiness?
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 2, 2024 (51 min)
28-year-old Alexandra met a prisoner on the Internet. During the dialogue Vladimir confessed that he was serving time, but Alexandra continued to communicate with him "for fun" and soon realized - she fell in love....
Because of the affair with the prisoner, Alexandra's own father stopped communicating with her, but the girl is not ready to end this relationship.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Apr 9, 2024 (60 min)
What if you didn't fulfil your family's expectations? Graduated from university in London, but didn't pursue a career and fell in love with the wrong person?
Maria has been estranged from her mum and brother for a year, ever since a man came into her life. His name is Sergei, and he is serving a sentence in prison.
Maria wants to mend her relationship with her loved ones and keep her love alive, but will she succeed?
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Apr 16, 2024 (52 min)
Alina Kosmacheva is 22 years old, and she is a lady-in-waiting. The girl will have to decide: is she ready to accept a marriage proposal from a man who tries to control Alina even from behind barbed wire?
But the imprisonment of the lover and control from his side - this is not all the difficulties that will face the heroine of the new issue of "Waiting". The girl will get acquainted with the real gypsy life....
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Feb 25, 2025 (69 min)
The heroine of the first episode of the new season of the reality show "Waiting" is Svetlana Salova from the village of Baryshevo. The woman has never been lucky in her personal life: at the age of 16 she got pregnant, and her lover turned out to be a real tyrant. Svetlana ran away from him and later married another man. Except that her husband began to cheat on her, and Svetlana did not forgive him.
But one day in her life appears gentle and caring Zhenya ...
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2025 (66 min)
The heroine of the second episode of the reality show "Waiting" - Daria Shirokova from the Perm region. The woman is on maternity leave with two little girls, whom she gave birth to from a prisoner. Daria dreams of getting married to her favorite man, but her loved ones do not support her. The situation is aggravated by the fact that Daria and her daughters are supported by her 55-year-old mother ...
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2025 (67 min)
Angelina from Novokuznetsk is 25 years old and already has three children. While the girl is on maternity leave with her youngest child, her father supports them. Angelina is afraid to admit to him that her maternity leave seems to be prolonged, because she is pregnant by a prisoner....
How Angelina will tell her father about the fourth child and whether her relationship with a man serving a prison sentence, see in the reality show "Waiting".
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2025 (59 min)
Last year, Vitaly wrote to Irina Korneeva from St. Petersburg - the young people began to communicate 24 hours a day. But suddenly the girl received a shocking confession from Vitaly: he is in prison... Irina left the guy, but he convinced her to come back and even made her a marriage proposal.
Now Ira is afraid that her closest person - grandfather, will not accept Vitaly...
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2025 (55 min)
Diana is a singer from Nizhny Novgorod who has come to conquer Moscow. In addition to her creative work, the girl is trying to understand law, because she has a goal: to get her fiancé Bogdan out of prison in another country. A year ago, Diana wanted to help Bogdan, who was not yet known to her, and so a friendship developed between them, which soon turned into love....
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Apr 1, 2025 (56 min)
Anastasia Kuznetsova from Lipetsk has been married three times. She has two daughters from her ex-husbands, but they live with their grandmothers. Anastasia communicates with the girls every day and takes them away on weekends, but with her mother and mother-in-law she has strained relations. And she is afraid that they will become even worse, because the woman is in love again - her chosen one is in prison....
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Apr 8, 2025 (66 min)
Olesya Kolbasnikova is 26 years old and lives in the Kostroma region. The girl is raising her daughter, whom she gave birth to by a prisoner - Olesya became pregnant during a long visit in the pre-trial detention center. Olesya's lover made her a marriage proposal, but the girl knows that her family will not approve of this marriage...
How Olesya will tell about the fact that she is going to marry a prisoner...
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Apr 15, 2025 (61 min)
Vitalia Babkina lives in Barnaul and is raising a daughter whom she gave birth to by a man with a criminal record. The woman met him when he was in prison and married him secretly from her mother.
But suddenly Vitalia found out that at the same time her lover had another woman. Vitalia divorced her husband, but soon he wrote to her with a proposal to return everything - and again from prison...
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Apr 22, 2025 (66 min)
Alena is 40 years old, from Tula. She had total bad luck in her personal life, both of her civilian husbands turned out to be abusers. Her only happiness is that Alena gave birth to a beautiful daughter and a son. Her daughter is now an adult, she advised her to look for a couple on a dating site. And Alyona found one! Only not the one her family would have been happy to see: Alexei is in prison under Article 228... Alena was not allowed to go on a long date, but a short one was enough for her to realize that this is her man and that Alexei made her a marriage proposal. Alyona wants to marry him, but how to convince everyone close to her that he is a good man?
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Apr 29, 2025 (67 min)
The whole life of 20-year-old Anastasia from Ulyanovsk has been connected with prisoners: her father spent 25 years in prison and is now awaiting another sentence, while a former classmate was sent to the penal colony for robbery. Nastya communicates with her father by correspondence, and with her friend by video call. During one of the calls, the girl was seen by his cellmate Igor, who asked to introduce them. At first Nastya and Igor communicated as friends, and then it started... The girl was about to go to see him, but Igor was transferred to another penitentiary, where calls and meetings are allowed only with relatives. And in order not to interrupt communication and finally see each other in person, the guy offered Nastya to sign...