All Saints star Georgie Parker won her first Gold Logie at the 43rd annual TV Week Logie Awards, held at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on 22 April 2001.
Parker won the Gold ahead of her fellow nominees Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers and The Potato Factory), Ada Nicodemou (Home And Away), Sigrid Thornton (Seachange) and John Wood (Blue Heelers).
Parker’s Gold win capped McCune’s Gold winning streak at four in a row. The All Saints star also won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress, ending McCune’s five-year streak in the category. Blue Heelers star Martin Sacks again won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor — making it his fifth consecutive win in the category.
All Saints, which began in 1998, was awarded the Silver Logie for Most Popular Program, beating fellow nominees Blue Heelers, Home And Away and Seachange. “All the elements came together in 2000,” producer Jo Porter told TV Week. “The relationships happened between Terri (Parker) and Mitch (Erik Thomson), and Bron Davis (Libby Tanner) and Ben Markham (Brian Vriends). It all came together perfectly. We’re just so excited that the audience has stuck with us for three-and-a-half years and now rewarded us with this.”
Although Seven‘s Home And Away missed out on Gold and Silver Logie wins, it did collect an award for Most Popular New Female Talent for Tammin Sursok, who played Dani Sutherland in the series.
The award for Most Popular New Male Talent was won by Jamie Durie, host of Backyard Blitz, which also won Most Popular Lifestyle Program. “I’m absolutely stoked! There’s no way I thought I’d be getting up once to collect a Logie, let alone twice!,” he told TV Week.
Network Ten‘s The Panel won Most Popular Light Entertainment Program. beating Rove Live, Surprise Surprise and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It was to be Ten’s only Logie win on the night.
The surprise hit from the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was Seven’s late night review, The Dream With Roy And HG, with the show claiming the award for Most Popular Sports Program. “We went into the show with modest expectations,” HG (Greig Pickhaver) told TV Week. “It’s a credit to the readers of TV Week who stayed up for 15 nights watching us speaking a load of rubbish!” HG’s sparring partner Roy (John Doyle) added: “It’s great to see that the little bit of fun HG and I had was shared by the community at large.”
The Nine Network’s A Current Affair again won Most Popular Public Affairs Program, and the Seven Network’s The Mole won Most Popular Reality Program.
In the industry-voted categories, ABC‘s hit drama Seachange collected three awards: Most Outstanding Drama Series, Most Outstanding Actor (John Howard) and Most Outstanding Actress (Kerry Armstrong). For Armstrong, who played Heather Jelly, it was her first Logie win in over 25 years in the business. “I’m really happy that Heather’s the goddess of small moments, and I’m really happy that the series made people feel good abut themselves and their families,” she told TV Week.
Nine’s Halifax fp telemovie A Person Of Interest won Most Outstanding Mini-Series/Telemovie. Rebecca Gibney, who plays forensic psychologist Jane Halifax, told TV Week: “I’ve been playing this character for seven years and this is the first time we’ve won, so it’s a case of better late than never!”
The award for Most Outstanding Children’s Program was a tie between Hi-5 (Nine) and Round The Twist (ABC). ABC also scored wins with the Four Corners report “Fixing Cricket” for Most Outstanding Special Report In A Public Affairs Program, and Paul Lockyer (pictured) reporting from the Olympic Games in Sydney won him Most Outstanding News Reporter.
The mockumentary series The Games, starring John Clarke, Bryan Dawe and Gina Riley, won Most Outstanding Comedy Program. And with an Olympic Games being hosted on home soil, it was no surprise that the Seven Network’s coverage was awarded Most Outstanding Sports Coverage. The network ran almost continuous coverage for the entire duration of competition, scoring record ratings not seen for decades.
National Nine News‘ coverage of the World Economic Forum/S11 Protests in Melbourne won Most Outstanding News Coverage.
The award for Most Outstanding Documentary went to A Death In The Family (SBS), a reconstruction of the miscarriage of justice into the death of Jennifer Tanner, a young wife and mother, in 1984. Police insisted her death was a suicide but, more than a decade later, an investigation by a journalist led to a new coronial inquest and the quashing of the suicide claims.
Veteran actor Ruth Cracknell became the first female inductee into the TV Week Logie Awards‘ Hall Of Fame. “Quite extraordinary,” Cracknell told TV Week. “I can’t believe the Hall of Fame has been in place since 1984 and I’m the first woman to enter this hallowed group, but I’m delighted. Maggie Beare from Mother And Son was an absolute joy to play.”
Although she was most well known for Mother And Son over ten years, her presence on television dated back to the early 1960s, ranging from comedy and variety to drama. A long list of credits included The Patriots, The Mavis Bramston Show, TV Spells Magic, Bellbird, Play School, Division 4, Boney, Seven Little Australians, Young Ramsay, The Dismissal, A Country Practice and Alice To Nowhere.
Her acceptance of the Hall of Fame award was one of her last television appearances. She died in May 2002.
Comedian Shaun Micallef took over from Andrew Denton as host of the awards. There were performances from Ricky Martin, Human Nature and Vanessa Amorosi. International guests included Michael Crawford and Christopher Ellison, and Bert Newton made a return to the Logies stage after many years to present the Gold Logie.
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TV Week Logie Award Winners 2001: Public Voting Categories:
Gold Logie — Most Popular Personality On Australian TV: Georgie Parker
Silver Logie — Most Popular Actor: Martin Sacks (Blue Heelers)
Silver Logie — Most Popular Actress: Georgie Parker (All Saints)
Silver Logie — Most Popular Program: All Saints
Most Popular Comedy/Light Entertainment Program: The Panel
Most Popular Lifestyle Program: Backyard Blitz
Most Popular Reality Program: The Mole
Most Popular Sports Program: The Dream With Roy And HG
Most Popular Public Affairs Program: A Current Affair
Most Popular New Male Talent: Jamie Durie (Backyard Blitz)
Most Popular New Female Talent: Tammin Sursok (Home And Away)
TV Week Logie Award Winners 2001: Industry Voted Categories:
Gold Logie — TV Week Logie Awards Hall Of Fame: Ruth Cracknell
Silver Logie — Most Outstanding Actor: John Howard (Seachange)
Silver Logie — Most Outstanding Actress: Kerry Armstrong (Seachange)
Silver Logie — Most Outstanding Drama Series: Seachange
Most Outstanding Mini-Series/Telemovie: Halifax fp: A Person Of Interest
Most Outstanding News Coverage: “World Economic Forum/S11 Protests”, National Nine News
Most Outstanding Report In A Public Affairs Program: “Fixing Cricket”, Four Corners
Most Outstanding Documentary: A Death In The Family
Most Outstanding Sports Coverage: The Games Of The XXVII Olympiad
Most Outstanding Comedy Program: The Games
Most Outstanding Children’s Program: Hi-5 and Round The Twist (tie)
Most Outstanding News Reporter: Paul Lockyer
Source: TV Week, 21 April 2001, 5 May 2001. The Age, 29 June 2000. ABC.
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The 66th annual TV Week Logie Awards, Sunday 16 August, 7.00pm, Seven and 7Plus.
It is hard to believe all these much loved tv shows and personalities were so long ago.
we’ve been watching All Saints on 7Plus and hard to imagine it was 25+ years ago. Seems like yesterday we were watching that every Tuesday night.