Latinica

Latinica was a Croatian television talk show launched on November 11, 1993, which was aired Mondays at 20:10 CET on HRT 1. Hosted by Denis Latin, it discussed various current events with guest experts and also contained five outside reports showing the actual cases connected with current discussion. Latinica was the longest-running weekly talk show in Croatian television, with more than 350 broadcasts. Its title, besides being derived from the host Latin's surname, literally means "Latin alphabet" in Croatian. Latinica started on HRT, but was briefly aired on Mreža, the first private Croatian TV network, in 1997 and 1998, owned by Miroslav Kutle and other businessmen close to the regime of Franjo Tuđman. In late 2005 it was speculated that the show would be transferred to another private network, Nova TV. Recently, Latinica became the subject of controversy due to the show dealing with the legacy of Franjo Tuđman. The treatment of the late president provoked a 12-hour debate in the parliament and was criticised by his followers, most notably Andrija Hebrang and other high-ranking members of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union party. Hebrang went as far as to accuse the show of causing the death of a Patriotic War veteran who committed suicide after allegedly being upset with the show's contents in this episode.