All the Drama of Foxtel wins
Subscription TV upstages Free to Air dramas at the Logies, taking both Outstanding Drama categories for the first time.
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Amongst the wins at the Logie Awards it was an impressive result for Foxtel, snaring Most Outstanding Drama Series and Most Outstanding Telemovie or Miniseries.
The wins by Wentworth and Devil’s Playground fought off formidable competition including The Code, Rake, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, The Broken Shore, Puberty Blues, ANZAC Girls, Carlotta and Janet King. ABC had a strong year for Drama last year, but the judges were swayed by Foxtel’s productions from FremantleMedia and Matchbox Pictures.
Ironically, ASTRA Award judges were forced to choose between both in a single category in March.
Both productions were clever reworkings of former works given the greenlight by Brian Walsh.
It was the first time Subscription TV won the Outstanding Drama since Foxtel’s flagship series Love My Way, which won three times from 2005 – 2007 and the second for Miniseries / Telemovie.
Danielle Cormack’s win in the Outstanding Drama Actress was the icing on the cake (frankly Nicole da Silva could have been a nice tie, and Pamela Rabe surely deserved a nod).
Foxtel’s local Dramas are certainly enjoying strong praise from critics, recently including the excellent Deadline Gallipoli with The Kettering Incident on the way.
Meanwhile former BBC Australian production Top of the Lake has a free to air broadcast starting this Sunday on ABC.
6 Responses
Certainly well deserved for Foxtel.If you have not seen the shows maybe it’s time to get Foxtel in your home
Wentworth has to be the best Australian Drama on TV right now. I love it. Next year i hope its nominated in the most popular categorizes and i hope that some of the stars are nominated for the gold logie.
With such a small number of people having pay tv, most people will never see them.
1/3 (roughly) of homes is not that small, and not really the point of Outstanding category.
Some of them are available on Presto and DVD, so there are other legal ways to view them.
Foxtel – the home of Outstanding Australian drama. The ABC – not this year.