Hrvatski Idol was the Croatian version of Pop Idol. There have been two seasons of Hrvatski Idol. The first one was won by Žanamari Lalić who received 54% of the vote in the final night. Patrick Jurdić won the second season with 50.22% of the vote in the final. Since the number of received phonecalls was only 2.296, Jurdić won with not more than 10 votes over runner-up Lidija Bačić. Both winners did try out on other countries similar casting shows before: Lalić in Germany and Jurdić in both his home country Austria and the Czech Republic. However, both failed to achieve some success on their first tries and were eliminated pretty early in the competition.
Although season one being successful with viewers, the sophomore series failed to continue this success. Third season was delayed and after an absence of four years the show returned to Croatian screens under the new name Hrvatska traži zvijezdu on RTL Televizija.
Season 1
Hosts
Nikolina Božić
Vinko Štefanac
Judges
Đorđe Novković
Miroslav Škoro
Ivanka Boljkovac
Nikša Bratoš
Auditions
Rijeka (03/17/04) Split Osijek Zagreb
Finalists
(ages stated at time of contest)
Finals Elimination Chart
Season 2
Hosts
Nikolina Božić
Predrag Šuka
Judges
Zrinko Tutić
Goran Karan
Ricardo Luque
Marija Husar
Auditions
Split (10/31/04) Osijek (11/07/04) Opatija (11/14/04) Zagreb (11/21/04)
Finalists
(ages stated at time of contest)
Finals Elimination Chart
References
External links
Croatian popular music
Croatian reality television series
Idols (franchise) 2004 Croatian television series debuts 2005 Croatian television series endings Television series by Fremantle (company) Non-British television series based on British television series Nova TV (Croatia) original programming