Milka Canić

Milka Canić

Milka Canić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милка Цанић; born 18 July 1944^[1]) is the supervisor of the popular Serbian TV quiz show "TV Slagalica" (formerly known as "Muzička Slagalica"). "TV Slagalica" is aired every day at 19:00 CET on RTS channel 1.^[2]

Career

Canić graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. She worked as a professor of Serbian language at the gymnasium in Priština, Military gymnasium in Belgrade and the XV Belgrade gymnasium.^[3]

Canić worked for five years on RTS program "Srbija danas" (Serbia today), and after that she became part of "Slagalica" crew about 10 years ago, and has gained enormous popularity in Serbia since then.^[4] Her face may be seen at the beginning of the "TV Slagalica" episode every day, when she says her trademark sentence "Dobro veče" (Good Evening). Her unique smile is one of the most recognizable ones on Serbian TV.

On 2008 Serbian parliamentary election Milka Canić was a candidate of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).^[1] In 2008, Milka said "Dobro veče" in the TV commercial for Volksbank and for "Yoginos" fruit yoghurt. She is the idol of many generations in Serbia esspecially for her 12 year long opening sentence "Dobro veče"

She might be easily the most popular Serbian meme.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Demokratska Stranka Srbije - Nova Srbija - Vojislav Koštunica
2. ^ RTS: Programska šema , 30 May 2010 (Serbian)
3. ^ Interview with Milka Canić on YouTube.com
4. ^ Interview with Milka Canić in Glas Javnosti

External links

• Milka Canić saying "Dobro veče" on YouTube.com
• Milka Canić in popular club mix "Dobro veče" (Duck sauce) on YouTube.com

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Name	Canic, Milka
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Date of birth	18 July 1944
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