Based on twenty-one months of ethnographic research in the Turkish dizi (serialized television melodrama) media world, this presentation examines how dizi makers create televisual representations of national values within the context of state censorship, as Islamic values are displacing secular ones under President Erdoğan's leadership. On and off the sets, dizi makers frequently complain about the increasing censorship in the industry over the last decade. They highlight how they can no longer produce certain scenes that appeared in dizis a decade ago, such as scenes that depict intimacy, extra-marital relationships, and alcohol consumption. I argue that RTÜK –the state agency for monitoring, regulating, and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts – despite not officially enshrined by law to sanction dizis before they air on television, serves as a major disciplining mechanism in the production process. RTUK frequently uses audience complaints as its legitimating device to interfere in broadcasts after they air and exercises differential treatment of television channels based on a channel's political stance. Focusing on interview data and ethnographic moments where dizi makers regulate content in anticipation of RTÜK censorship, I illustrate how these mechanisms of control affect dizi makers' work: they constantly vacillate between the already-punished and the yet-to-be-punished to predict what might get sanctioned by RTÜK, and this repeated uncertainty constitutes dizi makers as disciplined subjects.