Hrvatski Idol

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.

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)

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)