No, I think tonight’s HYBPA was taped on Saturday anyway. Plus Sam is not listed as appearing on next week’s show either.
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Just for once, we would all like to see the telecast finish on time. 11.20pm for the Gold Logie announcement is too late.
And enough with most of the presenters trying to be funny. Get up, read who the nominations are, reveal who wins, walk off.
And impressive that Tony Armstrong won Popular Presenter, despite his Dog’s Show airing for three episodes.
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But it might be boring I guess
He also presents on the ABC breakfast show every day
Oh yes, thanks for that.
I noticed (at least I think this is how it was) Matt Shirvington was on the Seven executive/Sydney table sitting next to CEO James Warburton. Wonder if pleasantries were exchanged and the big boss was encouraging to the new co-host? A bit awks the weekend team outrating them and having far better chemistry, would’ve made a nice Red Carpet tongue-in-cheek poke.
Also, if Seven had collected for Comm Games or AFL GF, do we know who was there? I saw Brian Taylor. I assume executive Lewis Martin (he spoke last year for winning Tokyo Olympics - which table was he on Sydney with pal James or Melbourne), Hamish McLachlan (who has spoken previously for wins), I think Abbey Gelmi is techically still on maternity leave.
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Abbey Holmes was there, as was Gelmi, Taylor and some producers.
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They should just schedule it to 11:30 pm and be done with it
There’s no way this would happen. It would be the most boring event ever. lol
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No report on the Logies for Nine’s 6pm bulletins in Brisbane and Sydney that I saw.
Nine is celebrating their winners (and losers) in a promo that is all gold for some reason 
Logie footage has the Seven logo blurred.
Update: Video
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She is vile and not surprising she’s here on 7. Home of Ben Roberts Smith. Just disgusting.
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Did she only appear on 7 and radio shows?
Overall, I thought it was a good night, Sam was great and a lot of his jokes were great and then he was still able to make it entertaining when they fell flat which is actually quite a skill in itself (take note of that Karl).
The In Memoriam section was great and the one from Sam afterwards was brilliant, including his joke at the end. Really got a good laugh at that.
Normally, I don’t like Todd McKenney or OTT things like that but I actually quite enjoyed that bit from him - added a bit extra just as the coverage was beginning to drag and was a different way of doing humour. I didn’t mind it at all - and I’m normally one to bag out those sorts of things.
Now for the bad parts - I feel like a lot of people are blaming Channel 7 but many of the bad things have been happening at the Logies since I can remember. The pairings and their ad-libbing. They all seem to try it and 90% of them fail, even when they’re comedians. Sometimes it works well and last night there were a couple which were good but overall most of them were cringe which was the same back on Nine. I do believe that it might be because of various substances consumed through the night but also because some try inside jokes which don’t work for a national audience (again, looking at you Karl!)
The timing - was late but again, standard. I seem to recall it’s about 11:30 every time when it goes. Always hard and when people do go over time with their speeches all the time, it’s a hard thing to try and manage.
Darryl. I used to love HHIS but that was in the 90’s. The jokes he tries now on this and on DWTS are just over used and cringe and are straight from the 80’s and 90’s and just don’t work now. No matter how much you try them. It was quite painful watching that at the end.
Finally to Sonia, not who I would have chosen but also not who I’m going to begrudge from winning. Things seem to have changed the past few years with these major campaigns to get the wins and I’m not really a fan of it - Tom Gleeson, I like him but I didn’t actually like the way he went about that and I genuinely felt sorry for Amanda Keller and the way she got affected by that as she was very deserving I feel after a very long time in the industry.
The same campaigning seemed to help Grant Denyer and Hamish to win too.
Not sure how we can stop that but hopefully it does return to a bit more level playing field at some stage.
So glad that Sam Pang went well though, it’s often a poison chalice and it’s so easy to find the negative articles every time and have them plastered across all the papers so it was good to see positive reporting finally and who knows, my wife might finally be coming round to him!
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Here are my thoughts on last night’s ceremony:
Sam Pang was a great host and should be back next year.
The In Memoriam segment and Hall of Fame induction were both beautifully done.
Todd McKenney’s performance and Daryl Somers’ comments before presenting the Gold Logie were both cringey material.
There were a few upsets in the results (e.g. Bluey losing to fellow ABC show Crazy Fun Park in most outstanding children’s program).
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Interesting seeing Annie Williams still in Seven’s camp (assuming she’d have been on stage for Comm Games if they won?) As she’s been on Nine recently for swimming and I think maybe Today and Sports Sunday, made me believe they’d signed her and for Paris 2024 Olympics/Paralympics next year.
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I didn’t quite understand the presenting line up, very mixed matched. For example they had Liz Hayes and David Koch for best supporting actress or something along those lines. Most outstanding news coverage would’ve been a better award for them to present.
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Agreed with this, the fact that Amanda wasn’t even invited this year is an insult to all she’s done. Swift and Shift Amanda wouldn’t have allowed this!
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Yeah and MKR’s Colin Fassnidge (who’d clearly had a few and a sentence/attempted joke went sideways) with Poh Ling Yeow who was very nervous/stiff and stuck to autocue. I think this was actually the “Most Outstanding News” category.
Not really. At a time when even current TV celebs were not guaranteed an invitation, someone who is not on TV is not likely to get an invite. Amanda has been around long enough to know that. And The Star supposedly had a smaller capacity than previous Logies venues.
Past Gold Logie winners get an invite AFAIK and Kerri Anne probably got an invitation as a hall of fame inductee.
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Or Poh Ling Yeow?
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