2008 Fugly Awards nominations open

The snarkiest of snarky television gongs, The Fugly Awards 2008, have now opened for nominations. Get your thinking caps on and let loose on the worst that television has offered us over the last year.

Best described as the “anti-Logies“, the Fugly Awards are now in their seventh year and despite the best efforts of TV Week and ACP Magazines we love them.

This year’s categories include:

Worst TV Show
Worst Male Personality
Worst Female Personality
Most Biased Sporting Commentator
‘The Eddie’ for Australia’s Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Most Spankable Female TV Personality
Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality

This year the Fuglies are also asking viewers to submit a video pitching why they are Australia’s Best Viewer.

Novelty categories includes TV Network Frenemies for personalities who give the appearance of actually liking each other, Most Sensational Current Affairs Story, Most Sensational Current Affairs Story, Trashiest TV Show You Secretly Love to Watch and Community TV Show You Want on Free-to-Air TV.

Nominations will run until voting begins on April 21. This year the Fuglies have also threatened an actual ceremony (thanks, they say to a sponsor) on Friday May 2nd.

Fugly Awards

Press Release:
Nominations Are Open For The Television Awards We Had To Have

Brisbane, QLD. April 15, 2008. The annual antidote to the Logies is calling on the people of Australia to submit their nominations for the worst shows, personalities and advertisements on Australian television from the last 12 months.

TV Fugly Awards are now in their 7th year and have been enthusiastically supported in receiving more than 100,000 votes.

Voters are mostly made up of people who dislike bad television programing but also by people who love the cheesiness of bad TV for the same reasons the others hate it.

This year TV Week have made changes to their awards’ voting process by allowing anyone to vote, not just those that purchase the magazine. Despite this the people behind The Fuglies still feel there is more than enough to make fun of in the television industry by giving Australians a chance to vote in categories that the Logie Awards organisers may have overlooked

“We should be happy. They’re finally trying to fix the things we’ve been whingeing about for the last 6 years. Even some winners of our complimentary categories like most the Most Under Acknowledged are now getting recognition by being in the running for a Gold Logie. Though there are sobs under the cheers as they are trying to take away all the fun in disliking them. Which is why just because some of the facts about the Logies have changed it doesn’t mean our opinion of them will ever change.” said Anthony Dever the person behind the anti-awards.

While none of the details have yet been figured out. In 2008, The Fuglies are promising for the first time to have an actual ceremony so they can properly announce the winners. This will mean that the awards will forgo their tradition of merely standing on the footpath outside Crown Casino.

Dever justifies this massive change by saying, “We’re actually a little sad about no longer being completely half-arsed. This year we look at it like we’re reality TV show contestants and are focused on the experience. For our voters and ourselves it’s all about our journey. We feel that the awards have had significant growth in the concept over the years and while we’ve always been about keeping it real, this year it was important to take the next step by abandoning our integrity and everything we initially stood for by having some sort of lame awards ceremony”.

It is part of the The Fuglies coming of age and becoming somewhat legitimate. In 2007, a sporting bookmaker offered odds on the results and this year the awards no one was meant to take seriously have their inaugural sponsor.

Nominations can be submitted over the next week at http://www.fugly.com.au

The list of top nominees in each category will then be released on Tuesday April 22nd and voting will then start to choose the winners.

The full list of 2008 TV Fugly Awards categories…

The bad categories…
– Worst TV Show
– Worst Male TV Personality
– Worst Female TV Personality
– Most Biased Sporting Commentator
– ‘The Eddie’ for Australia’s Most Over Exposed TV Personality

The good categories…
– Most Spankable Female TV Personality
– Spunkiest Male TV Personality
– Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
– Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality

Annual novelty categories…
– TV Network Frenemies
– Most Sensational Current Affairs Story
– Worst Advertisement on Television
– Trashiest TV Show You Secretly Love to Watch
– Community TV Show You Want on Free-to-Air TV
– Australia’s Best TV Viewer