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pleasant questions. For a while, Nedjeljom u dva enjoyed
a reputation of the most influential television show in
Croatia. But this reputation was recently put in question
when Stanković’s approach began to backfire, manifest-
ing itself in straw poll results. It is believed that the trend
started in 2009 with Borislav Škegro and Zlatko Canjuga
- two unpopular figures in the former Franjo Tuđman’s
government - outclassing Stanković during the debates.
In recent months Stanković fared the same in the debate
with a Serbian journalist Aleksandar Tijanić, while the
worst debacle was the debate with Nenad Ivanković,
which, according to witnesses, nearly led to physical con-
Aleksandar Stanković (left) and Ivo Banac on Nedjeljom u dva, frontation after the show. Also a guest of the show in
7 October 2007 December 2007, Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik
called the opening segment about him ’biased’ and con-
Nedjeljom u dva (English: Sundays at two o’clock) is a fronted Stankovic with the fact he was never officially
Croatian television talk show aired every Sunday at 14:00 found guilty of cigaret smuggling, as claimed by the
CET on HRT 1. show. [1]
The hour length show usually features a single guest Another source of controversy is Stanković’s tenden-
related to an important political, cultural or economic cy to shock viewers with content usually not seen on
event that came to light during that week. After a brief Croatian daytime television. While most commentators
introductory segment, the show is basically an interview saw his taking off clothes for impromptu photo shoot by
between the guest and the show’s host Aleksandar Stephan Lupino as harmless, they were appalled by the
Stanković. use of footage from the Srebrenica Massacre tapes and
Another feature of the show is a phone line poll about controversial scenes from 1976 film Okupacija u 26 slika
an issue related to the guest. The poll recently became - images viewed inappropriate for public television dur-
matter of controversy, when many people, dissatisfied ing daytime. In 2008 another controversy erupted after
with the results - most notably Andrija Hebrang, high the Slovenian right wing politician Zmago Jelinčič was a
ranking official of the Croatian Democratic Union - ac- guest of the show.
cused Croatian Radiotelevision of vote stuffing and ma- Other notable guests include Zdravko Mamic, Zoran
nipulation. Recently the poll lost much of its importance Milanovic, Lepa Brena, Slavoj Žižek, Toni Kukoč, Rambo
due to small number of respondents and results that con- Amadeus, Ivo Josipović, Mira Furlan, Let 3 and Mirko
tradict each other every week. Filipović.
The show started in 2001 and gained a lot of pop- [1] http://www.youtube.com/
ularity, mostly due to Stanković taking adversarial ap- watch?v=ThLXte0vo3I&feature=related
proach towards the guests and asking all kinds of un-
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