Dragan Ilic

Dragan Ilić is a graduate psychologist and journalist. He worked at Radio and TV B92, then founded the Supermish production. He has been writing the "TV Maniac" column for Vreme since 2002. He has been the author and host of the morning program "Buđenje" for many years, and he has been working with his colleagues on the TV show "4 and a Half Men" for eight seasons. Married to his wife Živana and father of Danilo and Matija.

TV maniac

Whose are our Russians?

In Serbia, which in the West is considered an outpost of Putin's policy in the Balkans, the diaspora has clearly shown that it is against him, unlike, for example, Croatia, where Putin won 15 percent, or Greece, where he won by more than half

Dragan Ilic

TV maniac

The Ides of March or lament over March 9

The most terrible thing is that the attitude towards Milosevic and Đinđić is not defined according to the official position of the state, but Milošević is made a hero and a victim, while Đinđić is at best a useful idiot of the West, who was killed when he raised the question of the fate of Kosovo

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TV maniac

Nothing new, nothing better

The Eurovision Song was somewhat similar to the recent presentation of Serbia's quantum leap with Expo 2027. Just as in the President's performances, only he writes the script and leads the program, so at the Eurovision Song everything is led by Kosjerina, and the script of the show is seriously missing

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TV maniac

Whose media are we?

It is known, approximately, what the total value of the media market in Serbia is, but the share of the largest media in any area remains a secret. It is, therefore, not a gray but a black hole of our media pluralism

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TV maniac

The decade of the Cultural Diary

All televisions in Serbia do not have a fraction of the time that RTS devotes to culture, mostly on its terrestrial and cable channels. That's why I still don't understand the need to compete with Pink, Prva or Happy in the production of any folk festivities, weddings, dinners and cooking from the native region

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TV maniac

It's late for everything, but it doesn't matter

I myself fell into the wave of disciplining the media, not of my own free will. After 10 years of broadcasting the morning program "Buđenje" on Radio S2, the new owners decided to end the cooperation. I can guess the reasons for this decision, it's harder for me to understand them, but I'm not surprised

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TV maniac

Amateurs and professionals

How did we get to the meteorological drama, where the "bloody rain" is replaced by an "icy day", with a mandatory recommendation on how to overcome sudden changes in temperature and avoid meteorological ailments

Dragan Ilic

TV maniac

A quantum leap into the past and the future

On all televisions in Serbia, on my birthday, on St. John's Day, the President and his closest associates presented the comprehensive Development Plan of Serbia until 2027. This two-hour TV show, moderated by Dragana Kosjerina, started at 18 p.m. and practically merged with Dnevnik on RTS1

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TV maniac

Camouflage pink

The best protection of a country is your neighbors, just like in a building or street. Unfortunately, we have been at odds with many of them for decades, so more tanks and bombs may not help us feel safer.

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TV maniac

Not so white Christmas

The plates no longer have stickers, citizens who have a passport of the Republic of Kosovo no longer need visas for the EU, and the only citizens who need them for now are Serbs from Kosovo who have Serbian passports issued by the Coordination Body

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TV Maniac - 2023 Preview

Chronicle of great famine and great death

Every attempt at democratization today is evaluated as "Maidan", which means the result of the actions of anti-Serb elements from the West with the support of domestic traitors.

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TV maniac

"Children of Evil" on HBO, or the world's, and ours

This series could be similar to Gomorrah, where in the works of Roberto Saviano the combination of crime and politics in the south of Italy is shown in detail. That's probably why we waited so long for its premiere, because the establishment instinctively recognized the danger of any kind of analogy

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