“IT’S COME UP TO MY FINGERNAILS. DAMN IT, REVOLUTION!”: RTS Forced to Justify Itself Because Blockades Are Mentioned in a TV Series! (VIDEO)

Is RTS, through “Radio Mileva,” taking the side of the “blockaders,” and why do tabloids think so?

The pressure so unsettled the Public Broadcaster that it began to justify itself to them.

In homes across Serbia these days, at exactly 8 p.m., viewers follow the adventures of a Belgrade neighborhood. Through the character of a curious pensioner who knows everyone and everything, the audience becomes acquainted with everyday problems, small dramas, and social themes that cut through the life of a Belgrade neighborhood.

The series “Radio Mileva,” which has reached its seventh season, has for years balanced between humor and social commentary, opening questions of professional, family, and broader social relations.

However, some scenes from the latest episodes have provoked fierce reactions in tabloids, which accused the series, as well as Radio Television of Serbia on which it airs, of political propaganda and undermining the state.

“Insidious pumping on RTS”

The reactions, in a short period of time, took on the contours of a kind of media hysteria.

Tabloids presented television fiction as a political pamphlet and a threat to state interests, claiming that through dialogues and plotlines hidden, but also direct messages are being sent and that current protests and blockades are being supported.

Thus, “Informer” published that Radio Television of Serbia is “insidiously pumping a blockader-colored revolution,” with the claim that in the popular series “blockader propaganda has been planted like a cuckoo’s egg.”

Радио Милева, скандалозна блокадерска пропаганда, сада и против ‘Београда на води’!?! pic.twitter.com/YGpBIKBP1r
— Драган Ј. Вучићевић (@djvucicevic) January 11, 2026

In the same context, they also recall the earlier case of the program “Important Things,” in which a child spoke about student blockades, which tabloids also interpreted as part of the same “campaign.”

The Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media, let us recall, made a decision that in the mentioned episode of “Important Things” there was no abuse of a child for political purposes.

RTS Justifies Itself to Tabloids

Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) announced that the script for the episode of the series “Radio Mileva” that caused hysteria in pro-regime tabloids was submitted several months before the blockades began and that it cannot be a case of “blockader” propaganda, the FoNet agency reported.

“The words that were characterized as disputed were uttered by Mileva—played by actress Olga Odanović, and that line is found in the script that the executive producer of the Drama and Domestic Series Program, Nira pro, submitted to the Editorial Office on August 16, 2024, at 11:15,” RTS stated.

The statement recalls that in the allegedly disputed episode, it is about the tenants of Rankeova 12 in Belgrade receiving information that their building is slated for demolition and that, in a series of proposals put forward by the tenants in order to resolve the situation, Mileva proposes a revolution and the raising of blockades.

“No one accepts her proposal and they very quickly continue to look for solutions in line with the comedic content. The behavior of the title heroine is characteristic of her explosive character, visible in all episodes shown so far, and since the script was written and submitted before the start of the blockades, the criticisms that this is propaganda are unfounded,” RTS stated.

As evidence, this paper cites the main heroine’s line: “It’s come up to my fingernails. Damn it, revolution! Demonstrations, blockades of schools, faculties, kindergartens, everything… The internet and portals, media, television, everything, social networks, public figures…”

“Any resemblance to real events in Serbia, by all appearances, is more than intentional,” Informer concluded.

The criticisms spread to other tabloids as well, so the daily “Alo” claims in its headlines that RTS “is no longer hiding” and that it has “entered the service of those who want to topple the state and the system.”

The tabloids further state how much the series costs, that is, how much citizens set aside through subscription fees for such content.

In addition to blockades, Informer editor-in-chief Dragan J. Vučićević also singled out a scene in which the character played by Nikola Kojo speaks critically about the “Belgrade Waterfront” project, citing this as yet another “piece of evidence” of the alleged political alignment of the Public Broadcaster.