RECAP: Get all the star-studded action at the TV Week Logie Awards in Sydney
SPOILERS ALERT: This coverage includes winner results.
The 64th TV Week Logie Awards has wrapped up and Australia has now discovered who has won the coveted Gold Logie.
The Logies Red Carpet was underway at The Star in Sydney with the awards event, hosted by Sam Pang, kicking off at 7.30pm AEST on Sunday.
Seven stars Larry Emdur and Sonia Kruger went head-to-head in the battle for the Gold Logie.
Kruger was nominated for her work across Big Brother, Dancing with the Stars, The Voice and Logies Red Carpet, while Emdur was up for The Chase Australia and The Morning Show.
Other nominees include Nine star Andy Lee for his work on The Hundred With Andy Lee, Asher Keddie for the Binge drama Strife, Julia Morris and Robert Irwin for their work on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Tony Armstrong for ABC’s News Breakfast.
This year, the awards has changed format slightly, dispensing with its most outstanding categories in favour of “best” awards.
A woman was inducted into the TV Week Logies Hall of fame, only the fourth time this has happened.
Hosted by comedian Sam Pang with not a dull moment in sight, the ceremony consisted of 24 awards and 13 segments, and featured musical acts James Bay, plus Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy performing songs from John Farnham: Finding The Voice.
Read the recap of Australian TV’s night of nights down below.
Sam Pang pays tribute to this year’s axed shows...and almost comes to blows with SAS: Australia star Ant Middleton
Ever the good sport, Ant Middleton played along with Sam Pang’s ‘bit’, pretending to take to the stage to beat him up.
For a minute there, I thought we had a ‘keep my wife’s name out of your mouth’ situation.
Alas.
Millionaire Hot Seat, Gladiators, Toadie From Neighbours and Jack “succulent Chinese meal” Karlson all got a shout-out.
FINALLY the ‘Democracy Manifest’ meme guy gets his dues.
RIP Jack.
Missy Higgins is singing her hit track, The Sound Of White
We’re taking a look back at those who have passed in the In Memoriam section of the evening.
This always makes me incredibly sad.
So many great people...
Red Symons is presenting an hommage to John Blackman
John Blackman starred with Red Symons in Hey, Hey It’s Saturday for years and TV watchers of a certain generation will remember him well - he passed away in June this year.
It’s nice to see Red back on TV, but it feels weird to see him up there without his gong.
Masterchef Australia wins Logie for Best Competition reality Program
Andy Allen is accepting the award from places unspecified.
He dedicates the win to his “late, great mate” Jock Zonfrillo, who he says would be “up there watching, having a whisky.”
He urges us all to have one too - and who are we to argue.
Kate Langbroek and Dave Lawson are presenting Best Competition Reality Program
Wait, did Kate just sledge her co-host?
Awkward.
Let’s move on.
Here are the nominees:
- Alone Australia (SBS)
- Australian Survivor: Titans V Rebels (Network 10)
- I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Network 10)
- Lego Masters (Nine Network)
- MasterChef Australia (Network 10)
- The Block (Nine Network)
Finding The Voice wins a Logie because OF COURSE
This doco walked away victorious, and rihtly so - what a doco!
It’s on after The Voice on Monday night if you’ve not already seen it.
Brendan Cowell and Leah Purcell are presenting the award for Factual or Documentary Program
And the nominees are:
- Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles (Amazon Prime Video)
- John Farnham: Finding the Voice (Seven Network)
- Matildas: The World at Our Feet (Disney+)
- Nemesis (ABC)
- Revealed: Ben Roberts-Smith Truth on Trial (Stan)
- War on Waste (ABC)
Boy Swallows Universe picks up ANOTHER award and there’s not a dry eye
This time for Best Miniseries or Telemovie.
This is the fourth win for the well-received Netflix series.
The cast, as well as producers - and author Trent Dalton - were up on stage to accept their award.
Dalton thanked Brisbane in his speech, and “every last beautiful soul who lent a hand and a heart to this show.”
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house after he mentioend his mum, and dedicated the award to “all the mums lost in the darkness.”
“I just want to send a shout out to all the mums who are a bit like Frankie Bell, who may be out in the suburbs tonight and they’re feeling a bit lost in the darkness - I just want to tell you, please believe me when I tell you that when your children look at you in the darkness, all they see is your light.”
I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying...
Charlie Pickering and Allison Langdon are presenting Best Miniseries of Telemovie
It’s a stacked field.
And the nominees are:
- Boy Swallows Universe (Netflix)
- Erotic Stories (SBS)
- Safe Home (SBS)
- The Claremont Murders (Seven Network)
- The Clearing (Disney+)
- The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime Video)
Newsreader stars Stephen Peacocke and Michelle Lim Davidson present Best News Coverage or Public Affairs Report
It’s art immitating life, immitating art...
Here are the nominees:
- “A Silver Lining: Silverchair” (Australian Story, ABC)
- “Ben Roberts-Smith: The Truth” (60 Minutes, Nine Network)
- “Bishop of Broome” (Seven News, Seven Network)
- “Israel-Hamas War” (Seven News, Seven Network)
- “Old School – Louise Milligan” (Four Corners, ABC)
- “The Forever War – John Lyons” (Four Corners, ABC)
And the winner is, “Ben Roberts-Smith: The Truth” which aired on the Nine Network.
“We definitely weren’t expecting this,” one of the producers is saying.
Originally published on The Nightly
