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Survivor Srbija: Panama is a Serbian version of the Survivor television series, created and broadcast by Fox televizija. In addition to Serbia, the show was broadcast in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Alternativna televizija, Macedonia on A1 televizija and Montenegro on TV In.
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Featuring 22 contestants (11 men and 11 women), its first season was broadcast starting on October 27, 2008. The show is hosted by Andrija Milošević. The shooting and the competition started on Thursday, July 31, 2008 on location in Panama (Pearl Islands archipelago, 80 km southeast of Panama City).
On October 1, 2008, the filming crew along with the contestants returned to Belgrade after successfully shooting the material. The show's broadcasts started in late October 2008, and finished in mid-February 2009. The show's primetime live televised finale on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 achieved record viewership in Serbia with 2.2 million tuning in (also FOX's record).
Nemanja Pavlov was named the winner in the final episode on February 18, 2009, defeating Radoslav Vidojević and Edita Janečka with a vote of 6-3-0; he won a prize of €100.000 and a car Nissan Patrol.
In addition, Nemanja Rosić was named "Public Favourite", earning the fans' vote over Dario Ćirić and Ognjen Janevski. He won a prize of €10.000.
Contestants
The total votes is the number of votes a castaway has received during Tribal Councils where the castaway is eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.The game
Cycles in this article refer to the three-day periods in the game (unless indicated), composed of at least the Immunity Challenge and the subsequent Tribal Council.
In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort. Where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.Voting history
Tribal Council (TC) numbers are almost the same as Cycle numbers as a Tribal Council occurs at the end of each cycle; eliminations that happen outside a Tribal Council do not bear a Tribal Council number, but count towards a cycle. Episode numbers denote the episode(s) when the voting and subsequent revelation of votes and elimination during a Tribal Council took place. They can also denote the episode wherein a contestant officially left the game for any reason.
Controversy
Before it even started airing, the show aroused some controversy when certain press outlets in Serbia discovered that one of the contestants, 22-year-old Slobodanka "Boba" Tošić, was accused of being an accessory in the attempted murder of gangster Đorđe Ždrale, her ex-boyfriend, that took place on April 13, 2006 in East Sarajevo. Furthermore, information surfaced that there was an arrest warrant issued for her by the Republika Srpska police, which was the reason she moved to Serbia. Her arrest warrant has a central character (as opposed to the worldwide Interpol one), meaning that it is only in effect on the territory of Republika Srpska. The show's producers did not comment on the situation and she was allowed to remain on the show.
She added to the controversy by doing a spread for the Serbian edition of Playboy, which was included in the issue that coincided with the show's launch.
During the live broadcast of the finale, only ten minutes before announcing the winner, Radoslav Vidojevic, one of the finalists, said that Nemanja Pavlov, who won Survivor, bought votes from four members of the Tribal Council. A day after the finale, it was announced that the producers would sue Radoslav for telling lies.