Any predictions of who’ll be nominated in any categories?
Will The Project’s Peter Helliar, Waleed Aly and Carrie Bickmore all be nominated for the Gold?
The AFL and NRL Footy Shows will be up for Best Sports Program. Either one will win.
Imagine if the nominations for the Best Entertainment Programs are: 20 to 1; Couch Time; Slimefest; The 2016 Logies Awards; The Loop. Aint going to happen, but stranger things have happened at the Logies. Lol.
according to the TVTonight Newsletter I received on Friday, the Nominations are to be announced next Monday, with the Gold Logie nominations announced on the day before (on Sunday, 26 March).
There is no Nominations Announcement Ceremony this year, unlike previous years. So assumedly, nominations will be announced via the TV Week mag itself?
We have arrived at the point where the logies should be re-evaluated and re-vamped or dumped.
We have ensemble TV these days, dominated by faux “reality”, no real stars, and certainly haven’t had anybody worthy of the accolade of “gold” logie for some time now.
A better way for the ceremony to run would be to have all popular categories pre-nominated by those within the industry and then allow the public to choose from those 5 nominees in each category.
Currently we keep getting the same shows and personalities nominated and the whole thing feels very stale.
And get a bloody host for goodness sake. Julia Morris, Dave Hughes, Charlie Pickering??
It doesn’t even matter who, but anyone would be better than what we have now.
Yes, I admit I have become a bit cynical about the Logies.
It used to be an annual viewing highlight, now I generally can’t be bothered.
The viewer voted categories are skewed by those who can be bothered to vote (often not reflecting ratings popularity), and the peer voted categories veer towards the “politically correct” (I guess nothing is going to change that). The two categories just serve to confuse the awards ceremony.
Perhaps we should have a hybrid of the viewer votes and the industry votes - somehow weight and combine them into consensus winners.
Which has been the case since 1958. It’s always had a popular voting element and not always in line with ratings popularity. And TV Week has sought to address the magazine’s shrinking readership demographic by opening up votes to everyone regardless of whether they buy a magazine.
Viewers complain now that the voting lists omit various presenters and programs. Trimming the list to a handful of industry selected nominees is the polar opposite of what they should be doing.
