Logies introduce new Reality category
Logies adds Most Outstanding Reality Program and returns 2 other categories, with voting to commence on March 4.
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The 61st TV Week Logie Awards are confirmed for Sunday, June 30 at The Star Gold Coast, to be telecast on Nine.
Voting for the Most Popular categories opens on Monday, March 4, and closes on Sunday, March 31 via tvweeklogieawards.com.au. The shortlist of nominees will be announced on Sunday, May 26.
Two awards have returned this year – Most Popular Panel Or Current Affairs Program and Most Outstanding Entertainment Program encompassing news panel, sports or current affairs program or series.
A new award has also been introduced Most Outstanding Reality Program and this year Bauer Media invited entries for Most Popular TV Commercial which is a “trade only” award and not part of the broadcast.
Live voting for 11 Most Popular categories will also return from Monday, June 24, through to the end of the red-carpet on June 30.
TV Week editor Thomas Woodgate says, “We’re excited to head back to the Gold Coast and once again celebrate and honour the TV industry’s finest at the 61st TV Week Logie Awards.”
Nine’s Program Director, Hamish Turner, said: “In 2018 the Gold Coast fully embraced the stars of Australian Television for the TV Week Logie Awards. After the huge success of moving the presentation night North, we look forward to cementing this year’s Logie award ceremony in the calendar.”
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6 Responses
Why are the Logies so late this year? They should be in May. They had them late last year because of the Commonwealth Games. June is too late.
Any type of Logie based on Reality TV is like giving a Logie to “Best Home Viewer”.
jimbo and J Bar are right – why on earth are the Logies so averse to Outstanding Comedy? Is it because that award was almost always won by the ABC or SBS?
Most reality shows are more like scripted drama anyway. The Bachelor/ette, MAFS, MKR, there is hardly anything real about any of them, let alone outstanding.
do we really need two Reality TV Awards? Bring back the Most Outstanding Comedy Program.
What we needed was a Most Outstanding Comedy category not Outstanding Reality and Outstanding Entertainment. Why do we need a separate category for Most Popular Panel or Current Affairs? And the TV commercial category is an absolute joke.