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TV Week announces extra talent categories

TV Week rejigs its jury-voted newcomer category -by adding more.

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The Logies has re-jigged its jury-voted newcomer categories, adding two new categories to be presented prior to the big night.

Most Outstanding Newcomer – Actor
Most Outstanding Newcomer – Actress

In addition, the jury-voted Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer is now renamed The Graham Kennedy Breakthrough Star Of Tomorrow.

All three will be announced at the Nominations event Sunday, March 20, 2016, at Crown in Melbourne.

The public voted Best New Talent category remains unaffected with voting currently underway.

“TV Week has a proud history when it comes to supporting promising young talent,” TV Week Publisher Jayne Ferguson says. “Chris Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Melissa George and Simon Baker are just some of the big named stars whose first TV appearances were covered by TV Week.”

A swag of amazing new talent has emerged this year, such as Joel Jackson (Deadline Gallipoli, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door), Melina Vidler (800 Words), Ben Gerrard (Open Slather), Madeleine Madden (Ready For This), Olivia DeJonge (Hiding), Travis Burns (Neighbours), Matt Wilson (Neighbours), Harry Greenwood (Gallipoli), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Gallipoli) and Rahel Romahn (The Principal).

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  1. If it wasn’t all confusing enough. TV Week on page 25 this week call it a “Best Newcomer gong” when they’ve been telling us the awards will now be known as “Best New Talent” and “Most Outstanding Newcomer Actor/Actress”. If they are so easily confused about the new names in their own magazine, how is the rest of the media supposed to figure it out?
    Then on Page 25 they run a photo of George H Xanthi by mistake, alongside the information about fellow castmate from Open Slather, Ben Gerrard. At least George H Xanthi who is actually new to television is eligible for Best New Talent or Breakthrough Star for his work in Open Slather or Most Outstanding Newcomer Actor for The Principal.

  3. Talk about gilding the lily! As if turning most popular into ‘best’ isn’t confusing enough; now we have 3 outstanding new talent awards. I don’t see the difference, especially as the panels are pretty small anyway that decide the first two, then the special jury – for the bizarrely antiquated name ‘star of tomorrow’. I understand if there was a ‘young actor’ previously the outstanding juvenile performance; or perhaps ‘breakthrough’ where somebody like Ben Gerrard or Kodi Smit McPhee would be eligible as they have some earlier credits, but the 2015 roles are breakthroughs for them. Overkill!

  4. I’m still frustrated that I only have the option of Joshua Sitch from ‘Little Lunch’ when the 6 children were all part of a tight ensemble. Parentage? And where is Nikki Wendt for ‘The Ex-PM’
    On a positive, finally glad James Rees is getting a chance for ‘Giggle and Hoot’. Overdue

  6. “TV Week has a proud history when it comes to supporting promising young talent.”

    They would have been especially proud in 2013 when a young, bright-eyed, 33 year-old Joel Madden won, after a mere 14 years as lead singer of Good Charlotte.

  8. I’m perplexed by this. Why didn’t they just keep it as a Male Newcomer and Female Newcomer? Why have two categories for the actors and then another one called The Graham Kennedy Breakthrough Star Of Tomorrow? They also still have the Most Popular Best New Talent Award which is voted by the public.

    So can a new actor, in theory, win Best New Talent, Most Outstanding Newcomer and Breakthrough Star of Tomorrow?

  9. How is Kodi Smit-McPhee eligible as a new talent. He has movie and tv credits going back to 2006. Who is to blame for him being nominated? ( I realize that is in a press release and not you writing that David)

    2. TV Week has always qualified this as being someone’s first “major” appearance, which is obviously open to interpretation. Kodi’s films are ‘irrelevant’ as part of his TV career, but his local TV roles do seem to have been small (Nightmares & Dreamscapes = US TV). Ben Gerrard’s appearance as Outland ensemble in my mind would make him ineligible. Nikki Wendt has had numerous TV roles dating back to 1988 -hard to argue is a newcomer.

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