Seven Network personality Larry Emdur has won the Gold Logie at the 64th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held on Sunday night at The Star, Sydney.
The co-host of The Morning Show and host of The Chase Australia took the top award ahead of fellow nominees Andy Lee, Julia Morris, Asher Keddie, Robert Irwin, Tony Armstrong and last year’s Gold Logie winner, Sonia Kruger.
Emdur also won the Bert Newton Award For Most Popular Presenter. For Emdur, despite almost 40 years in the business, they were his first ever Logie nominations and wins.
He had to admit that last week he was so sure he would not win the Gold that he made a promise that if he did win he would have a tattoo of his fellow nominees’ names tattooed onto his backside.
True to his word, on The Morning Show the day after his win, he was on set having a picture of a Logie statuette and the initials of his nominees tattooed as promised!
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It was the Seven Network’s second hosting of the awards since taking over the rights from Nine, with Sam Pang again as host. Though being on Seven didn’t stop Pang delivering some cutting remarks in his opening monologue at the network’s expense, particularly around some recent high-profile legal cases. He didn’t hold back either against his other employer, Ten, where he is a panellist on Have You Been Paying Attention?
Presenters during the night included Robert Irwin, Julia Morris, Larry Emdur, Hamish Blake, Dr Chris Brown, Carrie Bickmore, Kate Langbroek, Dave Lawson, Charlie Pickering, Ally Langdon, Andy Lee, Stephen Curry, Luke McGregor, Celia Pacquola, Rachel Griffiths, Deborah Mailman, Ada Nicodemou, James Stewart, Ray Meagher, Kate Ritchie, Costa Georgiadis, Steve Peacocke, Michelle Lim Davidson, Georgie Parker, Matt Shirvington, Sarah Abo, Natalie Barr, Felix Cameron, Lee Tiger Halley and four-time Gold Logie winner Lisa McCune to hand out the Gold.
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The biggest winner of the night was the Netflix series Boy Swallows Universe, the Brisbane-based coming-of-age series based on the novel by Trent Dalton. The series collected five awards, including Best Mini-Series Or Telemovie and individual awards for 15-year old Felix Cameron (Graham Kennedy Award For Most Popular New Talent and Best Lead Actor In A Drama), Sophie Wilde (Best Supporting Actress) and Bryan Brown (Best Supporting Actor).
ABC scored well with wins for Utopia (including for cast members Rob Sitch and Kitty Flanagan), Total Control (Deborah Mailman for Best Lead Actress) and Bluey. The long-running series Australian Story won Best Current Affairs Program, but the other news and current affairs categories that ABC normally ranks well with were to go to the commercial networks.
The Nine Network’s 60 Minutes won Best News Coverage Or Public Affairs Report for its investigation into disgraced former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. In accepting the award, Tom Steinfort acknowledged a certain irony that the story’s win is being broadcast on a network that previously employed Roberts-Smith in a management position. Nine also had a win with A Current Affair host Ally Langdon collecting the award for Best News Or Public Affairs Presenter. In her acceptance speech she acknowledged that while the show sometimes focuses on low-rent stories like chasing dodgy tradespeople, it does rise to the challenge to cover more substantial topics. She also paid tribute to her late father-in-law Mike Willesee, who founded the original A Current Affair in 1971.
The Seven Network documentary John Farnham: Finding the Voice won Best Factual Or Documentary Program, with the award accept by producer Paul Clarke and Gaynor Wheatley, the wife of Farnham’s manager, the late Glenn Wheatley.
Seven also had wins with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 for Best Sports Coverage, The Voice for Best Entertainment Program and RFDS for Best Drama Program.
Network Ten saw MasterChef Australia win Best Competition Reality Program and Have You Been Paying Attention? winning Best Comedy Entertainment Program. Ten also shared Gogglebox Australia‘s win for Best Structured Reality Program with Foxtel.
The Nine Network’s Travel Guides won Best Lifestyle Program.
Red Symons opened the In Memoriam segment with a tribute to former Hey Hey It’s Saturday colleague John Blackman, with Missy Higgins performing the song The Sound Of White as tributes rolled to various television and showbusiness identities that had died this past year.
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Claudia Karvan and Erik Thomson led the presentation to induct Rebecca Gibney into the TV Week Logie Awards Hall of Fame, accompanied by a passionate speech from Gibney’s son Zach Bell. Gibney, a New Zealander who came to Australia in the 1980s, has been a regular and well-loved fixture in many television dramas, comedies and mini-series ever since. In the presentation, she acknowledged that her first job offer was a choice between Neighbours and children’s drama Zoo Family. She chose Zoo Family, produced by Crawford Productions, which put her in good stead for a role with the company’s popular prime time drama The Flying Doctors. Other credits include leading roles in Come In Spinner, the Halifax fp and Small Claims telemovies, All Together Now, Snowy, Kangaroo Palace, The Silver Brumby, The Day Of The Roses, Winter, Wanted, the long-running Packed To The Rafters and its spin-off Back To The Rafters.
Leading the musical acts was a John Farnham tribute performed by Guy Sebastian and Jessica Mauboy, followed later in the evening by British singer-songwriter James Bay.
Despite the awards getting a revamp this year, with a number of categories merging the “Most Popular” (publicly voted) and “Most Outstanding” (industry peer voted) awards into “Best” awards, the overall presentation including the Red Carpet arrivals still clocked in at just under five hours.
Gold Logie
Winner: Larry Emdur
Nominees
Andy Lee
Asher Keddie
Julia Morris
Larry Emdur
Robert Irwin
Sonia Kruger
Tony Armstrong
Most Popular Awards
Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter
Winner: Larry Emdur
Nominees:
Hamish Blake – Lego Masters Australia, 9Network
Julia Morris – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, Network 10
Larry Emdur – The Chase Australia and The Morning Show, 7 Network
Robert Irwin – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Network 10
Sonia Kruger – Dancing With The Stars, The Voice Australia and Big Brother, Seven Network
Tony Armstrong – ABC News Breakfast, ABC
Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent
Winner: Felix Cameron
Nominees:
Alyla Browne – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Prime Video
Ava Caryofyllis – Bay of Fires, ABC
Felix Cameron – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Imi Mbedla – Bay of Fires, ABC
Lee Tiger Halley – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Tristan Gorey – Home and Away, Seven Network
Best Awards
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Drama
Winner: Felix Cameron
Nominees:
Felix Cameron – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Hugo Weaving – Love Me, BINGE
Rob Collins – Total Control, ABC
Rob Collins – RFDS, Seven Network
Sam Reid – The Newsreader, ABC
Simon Baker – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Drama
Winner: Deborah Mailman
Nominees:
Aisha Dee – Safe Home, SBS
Anna Torv – The Newsreader, ABC
Deborah Mailman – Total Control, ABC
Phoebe Tonkin – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Rachel Griffiths – Total Control, ABC
Sigourney Weaver – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Prime Video
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actor in a Comedy
Winner: Rob Sitch
Nominees:
Ben Feldman – Population 11, Stan
Bob Morley – In Limbo, ABC
Lincoln Younes – C*A*U*G*H*T, Stan
Matt Okine – Mother and Son, ABC
Rob Sitch – Utopia, ABC
Ryan Corr – In Limbo, ABC
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Lead Actress in a Comedy
Winner: Kitty Flanagan
Nominees:
Celia Pacquola – Utopia, ABC
Danielle Walker – Gold Diggers, ABC
Denise Scott – Mother and Son, ABC
Kate Box – Deadloch, Prime Video
Kitty Flanagan – Utopia, ABC
Madeleine Sami – Deadloch, Prime Video
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Bryan Brown
Nominees:
Bryan Brown – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Guy Pearce – The Clearing, Disney+
Jay Ryan – Scrublands, Stan
Lee Tiger Halley – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Stephen Curry – Bay of Fires, ABC
Travis Fimmel – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Sophie Wilde
Nominees:
Ariel Donoghue – Wolf Like Me, Stan
Kerry Fox – Bay of Fires, ABC
Leah Purcell – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Prime Video
Mabel Li – Safe Home, SBS
Michelle Lim Davidson – The Newsreader, ABC
Sophie Wilde – Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE – Best News or Public Affairs Presenter
Winner: Ally Langdon
Nominees:
Ally Langdon – A Current Affair, 9Network
David Speers – Insiders, ABC
Liz Hayes – Under Investigation with Liz Hayes, 9Network
Michael Usher – 7NEWS and 7NEWS Spotlight, Seven Network
Peter Overton – 9News, 9Network
Sarah Ferguson – 7.30, ABC
Best Drama Program
Winner: RFDS
Nominees:
Love Me, BINGE
NCIS: Sydney, Paramount+
RFDS, Seven Network
The Newsreader, ABC
The Tourist, Stan
Total Control, ABC
Best Mini-Series or Telemovie
Winner: Boy Swallows Universe
Nominees:
Boy Swallows Universe, Netflix
Erotic Stories , SBS
Safe Home, SBS
The Claremont Murders, Seven Network
The Clearing, Disney+
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Prime Video
Best Entertainment Program
Winner: The Voice Australia
Nominees:
ABC New Year’s Eve, ABC
Australian Idol, Seven Network
Dancing With The Stars, Seven Network
Take 5 With Zan Rowe, ABC
The Voice Australia, Seven Network
Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight, 9Network
Best Current Affairs Program
Winner: Australian Story
Nominees:
7.30, ABC
60 Minutes, 9Network
A Current Affair, 9Network
Australian Story, ABC
Foreign Correspondent, ABC
Four Corners, ABC
Best Scripted Comedy Program
Winner: Utopia
Nominees:
Deadloch, Prime Video
In Limbo, ABC
Mother and Son, ABC
Population 11, Stan
Strife, BINGE
Utopia, ABC
Best Comedy Entertainment Program
Winner: Have You Been Paying Attention?
Nominees:
Gruen, ABC
Hard Quiz, ABC
Have You Been Paying Attention?, Network 10
Thank God You’re Here, Network 10
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering, ABC
The Yearly With Charlie Pickering, ABC
Best Competition Reality Program
Winner: MasterChef Australia
Nominees:
Alone Australia, SBS
Australian Survivor: Titans V Rebels, Network 10
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Network 10
Lego Masters Australia, 9Network
MasterChef Australia, Network 10
The Block, 9Network
Best Structured Reality Program
Winner: Gogglebox Australia
Nominees:
Farmer Wants A Wife, Seven Network
Gogglebox Australia, FOXTEL and Network 10
Married at First Sight, 9Network
Muster Dogs, ABC
Old People’s Home For Teenagers, ABC
SAS Australia, Seven Network
Best Lifestyle Program
Winner: Travel Guides
Nominees:
Better Homes and Gardens, Seven Network
Gardening Australia, ABC
Love It Or List It Australia, FOXTEL
Restoration Australia, ABC
Selling Houses Australia, FOXTEL
Travel Guides, 9Network
Best News Coverage or Public Affairs Report
Winner: “Ben Roberts-Smith: The Truth”, 60 Minutes
Nominees:
A Silver Lining: Silverchair, Australian Story, ABC
Ben Roberts-Smith: The Truth, 60 Minutes, 9Network
Bishop of Broome, 7NEWS, Seven Network
Israel-Hamas War, 7NEWS, Seven Network
Old School – Louise Milligan, Four Corners, ABC
The Forever War – John Lyons, Four Corners, ABC
Best Factual or Documentary Program
Winner: John Farnham: Finding The Voice
Nominees:
Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles, Prime Video
John Farnham: Finding The Voice, Seven Network
Matildas: The World at Our Feet, Disney+
Nemesis, ABC
Revealed: Ben Roberts-Smith Truth on Trial, Stan
War On Waste, ABC
Best Sports Coverage
Winner: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™
Nominees:
2023 AFL Finals Series, Seven Network
2023 NRL Grand Final, 9Network
2023 State of Origin, 9Network
Australian Open, 9Network
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, Seven Network
Fox League Las Vegas Week, FOXTEL and Kayo Sports
Best Children’s Program
Winner: Bluey
Nominees:
Beep and Mort, ABC
Bluey, ABC
Eddie’s Lil’ Homies, NITV and Netflix
Gardening Australia Junior, ABC
Ginger and the Vegesaurs, ABC
Play School, ABC
Source: Now To Love, Seven News
