political satire and strong participation by the group Ku-Ku Band. The main script writers of Exiles were writers Rosen Petrov, Toshko Yordanov, Ivaylo Valchev, Ivo Petrov, and Ivo Siromahov. On 27 November 2000 Trifonov made the first episode of Slavi's Show on bTV. He is currently the director of the production company Seven-eight AD. The company produces programming mostly for bTV and bTV Media Group such as 5 Stars and reality shows on license including Survivor BG, Music Idol 1, and Dancing Stars 2, and two mini-series Where is Brother? and Brandy and Sunrise. As a singer he has released twenty-two albums, with Ku-Ku, Canaletto, Outcasts and Ku-Ku Band. He has gone on numerous tours throughout the country, as well as a tour in the United States and Canada. In 2004, he recorded a duet with the lead singer of Antique, Elena Paparizou, called "Why?" In 2005, Trifonov participated in the Bulgarian national finals for the Eurovision duet with Sofi Marinova. When it was time to perform their song "Unity", Trifonov announced that they were withdrawing from the competition because the vote was manipulated using SIM cards. In 2008, Trifonov was fined 500 leva (roughly $275 U.S.) for contempt. Trifonov has filed multiple lawsuits against so-called tabloid newspapers, won the majority of them, and donated the money to charity. In early 2013, Trifonov condemned the company Magardich Halvadjian and Judy Halvadjian for misusing excerpts from "Slavi's Show". On 6 May in Slavi's Show, Trifonov announced that his show would end on 31 July 2019, and after 15 September Slavi and his team will create their own television channel, called 7/8 TV. In October 2019 on his Facebook profile Slavi announced when his TV channel will start broadcasting. The first television broadcast was on 4 November 2019. Trifonov now produces 6 new shows on 7/8 TV. He is the host of the new show called Late Night Show with Slavi Trifonov. Ku-Ku Band Trifonov is the frontman of the Bulgarian music band Ku-Ku established in 1993 by Trifonov, Evgeni Dimitrov, Maestro Evgeny Jotov, and Ilia Iliev. The band has played or plays a major role on the TV programmes KU-KU, Canaletto and Slavi's Show, and on other projects such as Fife Stars, Idols, Sing with Me, and The Voice of Bulgaria 1 and 2. It has released 21 albums, over 300 songs, performed at hundreds of concerts, and toured thirteen times,