Hrvatski Idol

Hrvatski Idol is the Croatian version of Pop Idol. There have been two seasons of Hrvatski Idol. The first one was won by Žanamari Lalić (her famous black hair has now dyed into blonde), who received 54% of the vote in the finale night. Patrick Jurdić won the second season, with 50.22% of the vote in the finale, since the number of received phonecalls was only 2.296 votes, 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.

Hrvatski Idol
Created by	Nova TV (2004-2005)
Starring	Đorđe Novković Miroslav Škoro Nikša Bratoš Goran Karan
Country of origin	Croatia
No. of seasons	2
Release
Original network	Nova TV (2004-2005)
Original release	2004 (2004) – 2005 (2005)
External links
Website

Although season one being successful with viewers, the sophomore series failed to continue this success and a 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.

Finalists (with dates of elimination)
Season 1 (2003-04)
Žanamari Lalić	Winner
Pamela Ramljak	5 June
Neda Parmać	29 May
Linda Švarc	22 May
Alan Šćuric	15 May
Ivana Marić	8 May
Denis Mladenović	1 May
Karmen Matković	24 April
Season 2 (2004-05)
Patrick Jurdić	Winner
Lidija Bačić	26 February
Marina Kristić	19 February
Teo Nikolac	12 February
Siniša Vidović	5 February
Ana Bebić	29 January
Karmen Papić	22 January
Ivana Jelečević	15 January