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Bogies Awarded for 2013

Not the Logies and not the Fuglys, here are this year's Bogies.

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16andrewSome years ago we had the Fugly Awards, TV’s ‘worst’ awards, operated by an enterprising young man would fly from Brisbane to Melbourne, stand outside Crown Casino and hand out awards to absent ‘winners’ from behind a milk crate podium. You can see a photo of that here.

But in 2009 they ended after 7 years of being “As not seen on TV.”

Thankfully we still have the Bogie Awards, as run by David Dale from Fairfax. News Limited later ran its own Bogies but that seems to have subsided.

They may have only attracted a small reponse, but there are some snarky answers. For example:

Dumbest programming manoeuvre:
Nine buying the last season of Fringe, then burying it in the wee small hours on GO; SBS cancelling Letters and Numbers; Ten adapting The Only Way Is Essex into The Shire; Nine moving Top Gear all over the place; Seven delaying the final season of 30 Rock till after it finished in the US; Nine hiring Kyle Sandilands and Melanie Brown as judges in its new version of Australia’s Got Talent; Ten putting Masterchef: the Professionals up against My Kitchen Rules; Nine buying Parade’s End, interrupting it with commercials, and expecting viewers to stick with it for two hours. And the winner is: The ABC committing to 273 episodes of Randling.

You can read more on Network most contemptuous of viewers, Furthest past use-by date, Most effable personality’ by clicking here.

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  3. Actually, there were 27 comments but some of those were by Tribal Mind and contained multiple votes sent via email. Looks to be about 38 voters so about 40% more popular than we at first thought. Still small potatoes tho’.

  4. Wow, 27 votes. If only the TV Tonight Awards were as popular!

    That’s a small sample size but I pretty much agree with all of the winners. Perhaps, unlike the Logies, only sensible people voted.

  6. And 7’s showing the final season of Private Practice really late too. I remember years ago when Alias finished, we got the final season about 2 years after it had aired in the US. Bloody ridiculous. And final season of 24 was shunted onto 7Two.

  7. Presumably the new SBS2 will be in the running for next year.

    Channel 7 has shown most seasons of 30 Rock after it has finished in the US. It doesn’t effect the ratings on Mondays at midnight so why would they care? And the later they screen it the less value it is to TV1.

  8. Most effable male personality is David Stratton?! I like his reviews… But! Gosh, who voted?! I get the Todd Sampson and the Chris Brown (love Dr Chris!) mentions though (Adam Hills not so much in the sexy department). Seriously, I think these names show how reluctant we are to sexualise men and this is a patriarchal issue. If it’s ‘ok’ to objectify women (lots of breasts on TV), it should be the same for the blokes.

    You see, and the effable female category is filled with sexy, beautiful and sassy ladies like Essie Davis, Asher Keddie, Poh and Chris Bath! I’m totally agree with these answers!

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