Big Brother (Croatia)

Big Brother is a reality show shown on RTL Televizija in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. It is based on the international "Big Brother" format produced by Endemol.

The house is situated in Jadran Film studios, in Dubrava section of Zagreb.

There have been five seasons - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 plus atleast one celebrity season.

First season (2004)

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seriesname = Big Brother Croatia
series = Season 1 (2004)



hm1 = Saša Tkalčević
hm1-enter = Day 1
hm1-exit = Day 100
hm1-stat = winner
hm2 = Zdravko Lamot
hm2-enter = Day 1
hm2-exit = Day 106
hm2-stat = runner
hm3 = Alen Macinić
hm3-enter = Day 1
hm3-exit = Day 100
hm3-stat = runner
hm4 = Marina Bajlo
hm4-enter = Day 1
hm4-exit = Day 100
hm4-stat = runner
hm5 = Antonija Blaće
hm5-enter = Day 1
hm5-exit = Day 91
hm5-stat = evic
hm6 = Valentina Tasić
hm6-enter = Day 1
hm6-exit = Day 84
hm6-stat = evic
hm7 = Ana Gotovac
hm7-enter = Day 1
hm7-exit = Day 67
hm7-stat = evic
hm8 = Željko Mađarić
hm8-enter = Day 28
hm8-exit = Day 70
hm8-stat = evic
hm9 = Sanja Kvastek
hm9-enter = Day 1
hm9-exit = Day 63
hm9-stat = evic
hm10 = Vlatka Kraljić
hm10-enter = Day 28
hm10-exit = Day 49
hm10-stat = evic
hm11 = Filip Voloder
hm11-enter = Day 1
hm11-exit = Day 35
hm11-stat = evic
hm12 = Ozren Petrić
hm12-enter = Day 1
hm12-exit = Day 23
hm12-stat = walk
hm13 = Krešo Jengić
hm13-enter = Day 1
hm13-exit = Day 22
hm13-stat = eject
hm14 = Egle Brožić
hm14-enter = Day 1
hm14-exit = Day 14
hm14-stat = evic
legendwinner = Winner
legendrunner = Runner Up
legendevic = Evicted
legendwalk = Walked
legendeject = Removed

The first Croatian season of "Big Brother" ran for 100 days, starting on 2004-09-18 and ending on 2004-12-26. It received high ratings and proved to be one of the rare successes for RTL Televizija in its first six months on Croatian television markets.

Despite huge commercial success and becoming cultural phenomenon of its season, the first season was subjected to much criticism. Andrija Hebrang, Croatian health minister at the time, complained about contestants smoking while the programme on air, which was against Croatian laws. In response to this, later live broadcasts were time-delayed. The show also created minor controversy due to a single homophobic statement ("If I knew I have a fag friend, I would kill him. I would kill him") made by Zdravko Lamot [http://www.lupiga.com/vijesti/index.php?id=3322] [http://www.balconn.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=326] .

Other critics complained about lack of diversity among contestants who didn't represent the average of Croatian population. They were mostly all in mid-20s, attending college, having liberal mindset and coming from well-to-do or upper-middle class families. Another exception was Saša Tkalčević, 32-year old biker from Bjelovar, husband and father of two children. He almost immediately established himself as frontrunner, indicating that the audience for the show and pool of potential voters was much older than previously thought.

In this first season, there were 12 original housemates. Later, two new housemates entered the house.

fnb|1 Lea received immunity
fnb|2 Lea saved by "guardian angel". Ana & Dragica were nominated instead of Lea
fnb|3 Tanja nominated by Big Brother because she failed her secret mission
fnb|4 Zoran was nominated by Big Brother because he broke the rules
fnb|5 Yameisy was nominated by Big Brother because she refused to nominate

Fourth Season (2007)

Fourth season began airing on 7th September 2007 and ended on 21st December 2007.

The maximum prize is 1.5 million HRK (200 000 EUR), but grand prize starts at 100.000 HRK (13 500 EUR) and every successful completion of weekly task will increase the final prize by the same amount, however it is expected that the actual winner would get significantly lower amount due to penalties for various House rule violations. Producers introduced penalties as a response to criticism of the second season, when they were perceived to be too tolerant of contestants' misbehavior.

Celebrity Big Brother 1 (2008)

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seriesname = Celebrity Big Brother
series = Season 1 (2008)



hm1 = Danijela Dvornik
hm1-enter = Day 1
hm1-exit = Day 14
hm1-stat = winner
hm2 = Marina Orsag
hm2-enter = Day 1
hm2-exit = Day 14
hm2-stat = runner
hm3 = Iva Jerković
hm3-enter = Day 1
hm3-exit = Day 14
hm3-stat = runner
hm4 = Ivica Kovačević
hm4-enter = Day 1
hm4-exit = Day 14
hm4-stat = runner
hm5 = Neven Ciganović
hm5-enter = Day 1
hm5-exit = Day 14
hm5-stat = runner
hm6 = Marko Grubnić
hm6-enter = Day 1
hm6-exit = Day 14
hm6-stat = evic
hm7 = Salome
hm7-enter = Day 1
hm7-exit = Day 7
hm7-stat = evic
hm8 = Sandi Cenov
hm8-enter = Day 1
hm8-exit = Day 3
hm8-stat = walk
legendwinner = Winner
legendrunner = Runner Up
legendevic = Evicted
legendwalk = Walked
legendeject = Removed

The first season of the celebrity edition of Big Brother Croatia started on March 7th, 2008 and was supposed to end on March 28th, 2008. Because of lack of viewers the series was cut short by one week so it ended on March 21st, 2008.

In the first celebrity edition of Big Brother Croatia there were eight celebrity housemates.

Fifth Season (2008)

Big Brother 5 Croatia began on Friday 5th September 2008.

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