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Voting opens on Bogie Awards

Fairfax launches its annual awards for the worst on the box.

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Sydney Morning Herald launches its annual Bogie Awards, the alternative to the Logies today.

The snarky awards for the worst on the box are run by TV columnist David Dale every year, who has already shortlisted the categories and nominees for you.

They include:

Least real “Reality” show: My Kitchen Rules (Seven); The Block (Nine); Beauty and the Geek (Seven); The Real Housewives of Melbourne (Arena); The Bachelor Australia (Ten).

Smuggest talent quest judge: Shaynna Blaze (The Block); George Calombaris (MasterChef); Pete Evans (My Kitchen Rules); Alex Perry (Australia’s Next Top Model); Matt Preston (MasterChef); Neale Whitaker (The Block).

Network most contemptuous of viewers: ABC; Foxtel; Nine; SBS; Seven; Ten.

Most incomprehensible plotting: The Code; State of Affairs; Fortitude; How To Get Away With Murder; Witnesses.

You can vote in the categories here.

12 Responses

  1. I find this sort of thing really mean-spirited. I know people will say ‘it just a bit of fun’… but I can’t really think of another industry were people enjoy voting for ‘The worst’ things…

    1. There is a “worst journalist”, “worst website” and “worst band” awards. No doubt there are others. I think this sort of thing is actually critique under another name and generally harsh critique is proportional to the amount of money laid out on certain things within said industry.

    2. There are several different “Worst Dressed” awards, The Golden Turkey and Golden Raspberry Awards for film, and so many Worst awards for computer games and novels.

    1. I think the ABC should produce and broadcast this “awards(?)” show. I can tell you right away which shows would be runaway winners… it’s a no-brainer, really! All the so-called reality shows and all those damned puerile cooking shows!

  2. Could we have some sort of oddball award for Alex Perry’s glasses? The permanent fixture on his head deserves some sort of formal recognition after all these years. I feel certain that if a contestant on Model etc wore sunglasses like that 24/7 they would be parodied. So, fairs, fair. It’s like his mini-me, except it’s not.

  3. They should have called it the “Loogie Awards”. “Bogie” in this context makes no sense (and it has no negative connotations apart from being homonymous with the golfing term “bogey”). “Loogie” on the other hand, is associated with mucus and spitting (hence the term “to hawk a loogie”).

    I’ll issue a “Loogie Award” of my own to the “Bogie Awards” for its negligent application of word play.

    1. Well a “bogie” (sometimes spelled “bogey”) is a piece of dried mucus in Brit/Aus english. “Loogie” is an American term for phlegm that has been hawked up and spat out. I’d prefer not to use foreign slang, despite the amount of US shows on commercial TV.

      1. Traditionally it also refers to a live device used to support & carry the dead weight above it (e.g. a railway bogie).

        Which is a much more apt description of the whole thing…

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