30 August 1969: Elspeth Ballantyne (Bellbird) 30 August 1975: Steven Zammit, Johnny Young, Karen Knowles (Young Talent Time) 30 August 1975: Mike Willesee (This Is Your Life) 30 August 1980: Michael Caton (The Sullivans) 30 August 2003: Caroline Craig (Blue Heelers) 30 August 2008: Tessa James and Lincoln Lewis (Home And Away) 30 August 1960: …
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Jul 30 2023
TV Week Logie Awards: 10 years ago
Offspring star Asher Keddie won the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian TV at the 55th annual TV Week Logie Awards, held on 7 April 2013 at Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Centre. It was Keddie’s third Gold Logie nomination and she also collected a Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress for her role of …
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Oct 05 2020
AACTA puts the call out for votes
While the pandemic has taken out the TV Week Logie Awards for this year, the AACTA Awards is taking a novel approach in re-imagining its awards for 2020. To celebrate the upcoming 10th AACTA Awards, the Australian Academy of Cinema Arts (AACTA) has announced plans to include an audience-voted component to celebrate the last ten …
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Jun 13 2016
Amanda Keller in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Network Ten presenter Amanda Keller (pictured) is among the hundreds of Australians in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Keller, whose television career dates back to the 1980s, has been awarded a Medal of the Order Of Australia (OAM) “for service to the broadcast media, and to the community.” A former producer and researcher for Midday, Keller became …
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Sep 15 2015
Showcase, the X Factor of the ’60s
This week The X Factor has kicked off yet another series to find the next act that Australia will seemingly fall in love with. Fifty years ago today another big-budget talent quest was trying to do much the same thing — although except wanting to find the next One Direction, it was more about finding the …
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Apr 17 2014
Jack Benny and JO’K in 1964 Good Friday Appeal
Legendary American comedian Jack Benny (pictured) was the special guest at the Sporting Globe-3DB-HSV7 Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal in March 1964. Benny, visiting Australia for a series of stage shows in Sydney and Melbourne plus a TV special, appeared on the annual telethon during the afternoon as well as being the star attraction for …
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