Ljubav je na selu

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Ljubav je na selu
Genre Dating game show
Country of originCroatia
Original languageCroatian
No. of seasons17
Production
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network RTL
Release4 September 2008 (2008-09-04) –
present (present)

Ljubav je na selu (English: Love is at the Countryside) is a Croatian reality television series based on the British television series Farmer Wants a Wife . The series follows farmers from rural parts of Croatia looking for romantic partners.

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The series premiered on 4 September 2008 on RTL. It is one of the longest-running Croatian reality series, having entered its seventeenth season in May 2024.

Format

For every new season, RTL broadcasts an episode where a set of farmers introduce themselves and their farms to the viewers. The farmers are usually male, but so far three female farmers haven been featured throughout the series as well. [1] After the episode airs, the viewers can apply to meet the farmer of their liking by contacting RTL via e-mail or phone. The viewers are required to write a letter where they introduce themselves to the farmer.

A few months later, after the application period expires, the farmers who received the most letters from the viewers qualify for participating in the series. The farmers get to meet the candidates that expressed interest in them in front of the cameras and invite a few of them (usually three to four) to their farms, where most of the series takes place. As the season progresses, farmers eliminate candidates one by one, until selecting a single candidate whom they take on a romantic journey.

Hosts

The series employs a host who guides the farmers and their candidates through the series. The hosts brings the letters to the farmers and occasionally visits their farms through the season to check on the progress of their relationships with the candidates.

Croatian actress and former television host Lorena Nosić hosted the first two seasons of the show, [2] until Marijana Batinić took over and hosted the show from season 3 to 12. [3] In March 2021, RTL announced that Anita Martinović is taking the role of the host starting from the show's 13th season. [4]

Hosts on Ljubav je na selu
HostSeason
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Lorena Nosić Main
Marijana Batinić Main
Anita Martinović Main

Broadcast and release

The series is a part of RTL's staple programming, having been on air uninterruptedly since 2008. Excluding the network's news programming, it is RTL's second longest-running original series, following culinary series Večera za 5 (Croatian iteration of Come Dine with Me ), which has been on air since 2007.

For the first six seasons, the series employed a weekly format with one episode a week being aired. Since the show's seventh season, which premiered in 2016, the series airs several episodes a week. As of September 2023, with the premiere of the show's 16th season, RTL's streaming service Voyo releases each episode 24 hours before their television broadcast. As of 2019, the series also airs in Slovenia on Pop TV. [5]

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesFarmers introductionOriginal runFarmers
1124 September 200815 January – 14 April 2009Mato Smolčić, Tomislav Copić, Ivan Đurašević, Franjo Kolarić, Petar Benčić, Marinko Sarić, Denis Tikel, Andrija Vitković [6]
21410 September 20093 April – 22 June 2010
31429 May 201122 January – 28 April 2012
4148 July 201210 February – 3 May 2013
51220 July 20142 October – 14 December 2014
6145 June 201527 February – 23 March 2016
7223 June 20163 October – 29 November 2016
82515 May 201710 September – 1 November 2017
9284 January 20181 April – 31 May 2018Domagoj Škobić, Anto Vardić, Ivan Marenić, Boris Kovačić, Vatroslav Tijan, Miljenko Mišić, Josip Ćiritović, Dario Gašparić, Hrvoje Gregurić, Ivan Kosar, Mladen Vidulin [7]
102511 June 20183 February – 13 March 2019Dragan Ljiljak, Ljubo Bebić, Ivica Mušćet, Željko Bilić, Boris Kolesarić, Marko Skelin, Pavo Štivić, Jovan Karapandža, Miljenko Vrančić, Josip Krizmanić, Kristijan Vrban [8]
112514 March 20198 September – 17 October 2019Daniel Granja, Darinka Ljubica Goravica Green, Domino Santro, Srećko Ponjavic, Jack Vukoja [9]
12251 May 20199 February – 18 March 2020Dušan Golubovac, Hakija Špago, Ivan Putnik, Ivica Jurjević, Josip Tratnjak, Josip Vodička, Mihael Derdić, Miro Vojvodić, Stjepan Basarić, Stjepan Skočak, Valter Krastić [10]
132528 June 202011 April – 31 May 2021Danijel Karabaić, Dragan Kežić, Ivica Džaja, Jure Salopek, Jurica Živoder, Marijan Ceravac, Marko Punčec, Neven Landek, Rasema Vladetić, Zoran Mudri, Zoran Stričević [11]
14251 June 20218 May – 9 June 2022Nenad Lekšić, Ante Brčić, Zdravko Tomešić, Tomislav Skejić, Ivo Lepeš, Darko Rožić, Damir Toplek, Branko Stanša, Krunoslav Pavlaković, Josip Ranogajec, Milan Milinković [12]
152510 June 202214 March – 14 April 2023Ivan Damijanić, Dragoljub Kostić, Zvonko Šantalab, Hrvoje Špoljarec, Nikola Macut, Milan Ercegović, Ljubo Šerman, Jerko Odžak, Siniša Marković, Đuro Osman, Ive Pavlović [13]
164217 June 20236 September – 8 December 2023Branko Jurković, Ante Munitić, Ivan Detković, Jožef Mastnak, Mijo Bošnjak, Miroslav Dekalić, Radoslav Biskupović, Stjepan Runtas, Tihomir Petrović, Vinko Gržan [14]
17TBA22 May 20249 September 2024 – TBADarko Školnik, Ilija Strinčić, Ivica Turas, Ivo Obreza, Manuel Mandić, Mate Begović, Sandi Hribernik, Toni Patrčević, Vjekoslav Šajnić, Željko Stipetić, Zlatko Jakupović [15]

Legacy

Success and impact

The show's main goal, which is to help farmers find love, was achieved numerous times with several romantic relationships of past participants continuing off-screen. By 2021, seventeen couples that meet on-screen got married after the show; eighteen children were born out of these marriages. [16]

Some participants of the show through the years gained attention from the Croatian public and media, becoming instant celebrities. Most notable examples include Nevenka Bekavac, a season 5 participant, whose bold personality attracted several Croatian outlets to write about her personal life after the series. [16] [17] [18] In 2020, Bahra Zahirović was quickly dubbed "the star of season 12" by numerous media due to her unique personality. [19] As reported by 24sata, her unique expressions became known as "Bahrizmi" (Bahrisms). [20]

Controversies

As season 13 started airing in April 2021, one of the farmers was met with a negative reaction from the public due to his tattoo that contained Schutzstaffel's motto. RTL issued a public statement saying that all of the farmer's scenes will be completely removed for the rest of the season's broadcast. [21] Another farmer was disqualified shortly after he was introduced as one of season 14 farmers in June 2021. The disqualification occurred after RTL discovered that he omitted the fact that he has a child and lied about his mother abandoning him at the age of 13. [22]

A season 15 episode aired in April 2023 featured a farmer eliminating one of the female candidates by violently throwing cake into her face. Given the negative tensions between the farmer and the candidate, the fans deemed it violence against women and reprimanded RTL for airing such content. RTL issued a public statement expressing that the farmer's act of throwing cake was internet as a joke. The scene was removed from the re-run of the episode the following day and from the episode's release on RTL's streaming service (then RTL Play). [23]

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  2. ↑ Kuterovac, Martina (9 April 2010). "Lorena Nosić: Nikada ne bih preko malih ekrana tražila ljubav života" [Lorena Nosić: I would never look for the love of my life through TV]. jutarnji.hr (in Croatian). Jutarnji list. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2024. Simpatična voditeljica Lorena Nosić vratila se na male ekrane u ulozi "posrednika" između seoskih mladića i njihovih potencijalnih djevojaka, u uzbudljivoj emisiji "Ljubav je na selu"[The adorable presenter Lorena Nosić returned to the small screen in the role of "mediator" between village boys and their potential girlfriends in the exciting show "Ljubav je na selu"]
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  15. ↑ Ludban, Helena (22 May 2024). "FOTO Ovo su farmeri koji će u 17. sezoni 'Ljubav je na selu' tražiti ljubav: Stižu i neka poznata lica" [PHOTO These are the farmers who will be looking for love in the 17th season of 'Ljubav je na selu': Some famous faces are also coming]. 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 24sata . Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  16. 1 2 Krištafor, Maja (12 April 2021). "Zbog 'Ljubavi na selu' farmeri do sada sklopili 17 brakova, a rođeno je čak 18-ero djece..." [Because of 'Ljubav je na selu', farmers have so far entered into 17 marriages, and as many as 18 children have been born...]. 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 24sata. Archived from the original on 12 July 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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  21. ↑ "RTL briše scene zbog nacističke tetovaže: U emisiji 'Ljubav je na selu' više se neće prikazivati Jurica" [RTL is deleting scenes due to Nazi tattoos: Jurica will no longer be shown in the show 'Ljubav je na selu']. vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Večernji list. 14 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  22. ↑ "Ante je službeno diskvalificiran iz 'Ljubavi na selu': Prešutio je da ima djecu, lagao i o majci" [Ante was officially disqualified from 'Ljubav je na selu': He kept silent about having children, and lied about his mother]. 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 24sata. 5 June 2021. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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