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Logies 2024: Better Homes & Gardens: “We just hope our viewers vote”

Amid heavy social media campaigning, veteran presenter Graham Ross hopes BH&G audience also remember to vote.

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Veteran Better Homes & Gardens presenter Graham Ross is hoping the Seven show’s many viewers will get online and vote for the show, nominated for the Logie Awards Best Lifestyle Program.

This year the long-running show is up against Gardening Australia, Love It Or List It, Restoration Australia, Selling Houses Australia and Travel Guides.

“We’ve had 26 nominations, which is more than most,” he tells TV Tonight.

“I sometimes think even though we’ve had 12 Logies, and that’s an enormous honour for the show, to get 26 nominations is also a huge honour that we generally forget. In 2024 we’re up against pretty much a similar stable to what we were up against last year. We survived losing, and we’ve lost for many years now in good taste and good faith. No one got the crabs about it.

“As somebody in management said to me recently, ‘You really deserve to win this.’

“And I said, ‘But we always have. We always put together a brilliant show every week. 90 minutes of really entertaining television. You learn a bit here and you learn a bit there.’

“But, the judging is different, and the way they’ve got the judging set up now, and it’s very easy to sort of gerrymander, and I think that’s something that we haven’t got involved in. We just hope that our viewers vote.

“I won’t be too specific, but in recent years, programs have won one that nobody even knew that they existed, and that happens because of the way the voting is.”

You can vote for Better Homes & Gardens at the TV Week Logie Awards here.

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  1. BHG stopped winning around the time The Living Room started winning… Despite the former’s far higher ratings and still dominating its timeslot, programming disruptions and things like Olympics aside. It’s still a fantastic, interesting weekly show and deserves more recognition I agree, a staple, CFTA mainstayer. It has had a somewhat controversial decade however, with some popular faces shown the door. I’ve noticed in this time its tried to appeal to younger viewers, from new presenters’ ages and images, to segment formats and guests, to music and graphics. I guess they get better advertisers this way too.

  2. 12 Logies wins, with a total 26 nominations is a truly amazing feat in itself.

    I hope the new voting system works out. Although the public vote is 30% of the total for most of the awards, it can still swing the award winners.

    So vote people.

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