The awards are a long running excuse to have an industry piss-up, the liquor would be flowing the minute any of the personalities check-in to Crown (if not earlier).
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Are you fair dinkum? I’m sure he’s not the only one.
It’s up to the networks to book rooms for their talent. Seven are at the Langham up the road apparently rather than at Crown itself.
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Just backing up my earlier comment that they should all refrain until after the ceremony is over, and have a theatre style presentation.
They did that for a few years and I actually preferred it.
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Unless Crown have a secret room in the Palladium for Mr. Koch & Mr. Beretta to chill out in…
I’d say it’s safe to presume it was in the afternoon 
The St Kilda v Geelong game was played at 3.20pm, finishing just before 6pm. The screenshot is of the quarter time break, which would mean the photo was taken around 3.55pm.
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Thanks! My knowledge and interest in AFL ended when Capper left the Swans.
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I was impressed Seven personalities actually showed-up this year.
I mean would they really need Crown? Nine get like the entire network to come!
Seven could save money and just bunk them at Docklands.
The best joke of the night was about Tim Worner. I’ll post a video of I can.
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At least his outfit didn’t match that of Pete Helliar and Kat from when they were on stage.
I don’t think Amber would have coped with any more fuchsia coloured outfits.
Virtually every awards dinner in the world, televised or not, serves alcohol from the moment you arrive. It’s a celebration.
People don’t have to drink if they don’t want to but you can guarantee there’d be a lot of people who wouldn’t bother coming from interstate if it was a dry event.
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Here is Gold Logie speech (but without subtitles) - I did watch it back with subtitles and Molly did actually make sense; whether he should have been allowed on stage for that length of time …
Funniest part of night IMO
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He said he had been trying out some of his Logies material out at his shows to see the response.
They made a brilliant comedic team. They should make sure they get Pete and Kat back again next year.
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I thought the “Most Popular Sport Coverage” winner was rather odd.
Considering last year’s amazing/fairtytale AFL & NRL Grand Finals?
Hamish did look a bit surprised to be honest, I’d say nobody else from Seven Sport was in attendance, although he thanked them (Bruce McAvaney, Col Southy & Saul Shtein). Probably would have been him accepting if the AFL GF had won.
Interesting comment “Seven has built itsself around sport” which I hadn’t heard before.
Agree it was a biazarre choice. Clearly “Outstanding Coverage” refers to anchoring your broadcast from a Sydney studio while all the action is happening on the other side of the world in Rio!
I would have liked to see the Big Bash win that award.
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Overall I thought the Logies last night were better than some of the previous years. It only started to drag for me in the last hour or so when they get into a few of those more boring categories, plus at least it didn’t run to midnight like some previous years which is always a bonus.
I thought Hughsey’s opening was great and really on point, apart from the fact that I saw his Comedy Festival show on Saturday night and pretty much every joke was in that. Still it was good but of course the media are going stupid that he was too harsh. People need to lighten up and crawl out of their bubbles. He’s a comedian and he was funny. I’m sure everyone in that room can handle any of that.
Jessica Mauboy and Casey Donovan were both standout performances last night. Loved them!
As for Molly… that was sad and hard to watch. He has clearly declined a lot and I don’t think anyone understood what he was rambling on about for a while there. It looked like they were going to escort him off at one point!
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It’s an award for the sports coverage itself, not the outcome of the event being covered. The networks can’t take credit for that.
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I know, but having watched both the AFL Grand Final & Olympics (like many), I believe the latter had worse coverage, just what I saw.
I think the Olympics wins because of the huge amount of production hours, crew, planning, etc. as opposed to a 3 hour footy decider?