Big Brother (Croatian TV series)

Big Brother is the Croatian version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show shown on RTL Televizija. It followed 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. Throughout season housemates are completing tasks, every incomplete task reduce the prize.

Big Brother
Logo of the seventh season.
Presented by	Antonija Blaće (2-5; 7) Marijana Batinić (6) Daria Knez (1)
No. of seasons	10
Production
Production location(s)	Zagreb
Production company(s)	Endemol
Release
Original network	RTL Televizija
Original release	18 September 2004 (2004-09-18) – present
External links
Website

In the first four regular seasons and the celebrity season, the house was located in Jadran Film studios, in Dubrava, Zagreb. In the fifth season, the house was used is the Big Brother Thailand house.

There have been seven regular seasons and one celebrity season. Big Brother holds the record for having the most regular seasons with only male contestants winning the show each year (although the celebrity edition was won by a woman).

Series details

Original seasons

Series		Theme	Day	Housemates	Winner	Runner-up	Presenter(s)	Episodes		Originally aired			Prize
										First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	Vidi sve (Sees everything)	100	14	Saša Tkalčević	Zdravko Lamot	Daria Knez	N/A		18 September 2004 (2004-09-18)	26 December 2004 (2004-12-26)	RTL	1,000,000 kn
	2	Gola istina (Naked truth)	118	21	Hamdija Seferović	Daca Bosančić	Antonija Blaće	N/A		4 September 2005 (2005-09-04)	30 December 2005 (2005-12-30)		1,000,000 kn
	3	Do kraja (To the end)	99	14	Danijel Rimanić	Tomislav Šimićević		N/A		8 September 2006 (2006-09-08)	15 December 2006 (2006-12-15)		1,250,000 kn [1]
	4	Bez milosti! (No mercy!)	99	14	Vedran Lovrenčić	Maja-Paola Sestrić		N/A		7 September 2007 (2007-09-07)	21 December 2007 (2007-12-21)		1,005,000 kn [1]
	5	Avantura te zove! (Adventure calls you!)	106	18	Vedran Lovrenčić	Maja-Paola Sestrić		N/A		5 September 2008 (2008-09-05)	19 December 2008 (2008-12-19)		1,135,000 kn [1]
	6	Tko će u raj? (Who is going to heaven?)	50	15	Romano Obilinović	Ines Huskić	Marijana Batinić	N/A		17 April 2016 (2016-04-17)	3 June 2016 (2016-06-03)		116,300 kn
	7	Tajne i laži (Secrets and Lies)	100	31	Antonio Orač	Lucija Stojak	Antonija Blaće	N/A		27 January 2018 (2018-01-27)	6 May 2018 (2018-05-06)		371,000 kn

1. reduced from 1,500,000 kn

Celebrity season

Celebrity Big Brother
No. of days	14
No. of housemates	8
Winner	Danijela Dvornik
Runner-up	Marina Orsag

In 2008, RTL Televizija launched a special celebrity season of Big Brother. Celebrities entered the house for charity. It started on March 7, 2008 and was supposed to end on March 28, 2008. However, due to low ratings, the celebrity season was ended one week before it planned. The show was won by Danijela Dvornik.

Series		Day	Housemates	Winner	Runner-up	Presenter(s)	Episodes		Originally aired			Prize
									First aired	Last aired	Network
	Celebrity	15	8	Danijela Dvornik	Marina Orsag	Antonija Blaće	N/A		7 March 2008 (2008-03-07)	21 March 2008 (2008-03-21)	RTL	100,000 kn

Housemates

	Week 1	Week 2	Final		Nominations total received
Danijela	Iva Ivica	Marko Marina	Winner (Day 14)		3
Marina	Neven Marko	Marko Iva	Runner-up (Day 14)		10
Iva	Marina Salome	Marina Danijela	Third place (Day 14)		2
Ivica	Salome Marina	Marina Marko	Fourth place (Day 14)		1
Neven	Marina Salome	Marina Danijela	Fifth place (Day 14)		1
Marko	Marina Salome	Marina Danijela	Evicted (Day 14)		5
Salome	Marko Marina	Evicted (Day 7)			4
Sandi	Walked (Day 3)				N/A
Nominated	Marina Salome	Danijela Marina Marko	Danijela Iva Ivica Marina Neven
Walked	Sandi	none
Evicted	Salome 61.09% to evict	Marko 77.80% to evict	Neven 4.27% (out of 5)	Ivica 8.46% (out of 4)
			Iva 15.42% (out of 3)	Marina 35.84% (out of 2)
Saved	Marina 38.91%	Marina 15.47% Danijela 6.73%	Danijela 64.15% to win

Regional seasons

In 2011, Big Brother Croatia joins the regional version of Big Brother — Veliki Brat. The show features contestants from Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Series		Theme	Day	Housemates	Winner	Runner-up	Presenter(s)	Episodes		Originally aired			Prize
										First aired	Last aired	Network
	Veliki Brat 2011	Ljubi bližnjeg svog (Love Thy Neighbor)	106	21	Marijana Čvrljak	Duško Bogdanović	Marijana Mićić Antonija Blaće	N/A		13 March 2011 (2011-03-13)	27 June 2011 (2011-06-27)	RTL	€104,700 [1]
	Veliki Brat 2015	Gleda te, zove te Veliki Brat (He's watching you, called this Big Brother)	100	20	Darko "Spejko" Petkovski	Goran Todić	Antonija Blaće Sky Wikluh	N/A		4 September 2015 (2015-09-04)	12 December 2015 (2015-12-12)		€95,665 [1]

1. reduced from €150,000

External links

• Official Website on RTL Televizija