Nov 04 2015
The 58th annual TV Week Logie Awards will be held on Sunday 8 May 2016 at the Crown Entertainment Complex’s Palladium Room in Melbourne. The awards will be telecast on the Nine Network. TV Week has announced some changes for the upcoming Logies. Viewer-voted awards will now be known as Best Awards, while industry-voted categories will …
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Mar 31 2014
TV Week has announced the list of nominations for the 56th annual TV Week Logie Awards, to be held on Sunday 27 April. TV WEEK GOLD LOGIE — MOST POPULAR PERSONALITY ON TV Andy Lee, Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year Asia (Nine Network) Asher Keddie, Offspring (Network Ten) Carrie Bickmore, The Project (Network Ten) Essie …
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Mar 19 2014
Cover: Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills 90210) Basia’s big byte According to The Big Byte host Basia Bonkowski, technology can be sexy. “Technology, in a way, is very sexy — it is!,” she told TV Week. “It’s fascinating and it takes you into a different sphere and opens up new avenues, and for that reason it’s …
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Jan 12 2014
Fifty years ago, January 1964, the countdown was on to the launch of Melbourne’s new TV station, ATV Channel 0 (now Ten), scheduled for August that year. Melbourne was to be the first city in Australia to have access to a fourth television station — with new channels still up to a year away in Sydney, …
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Dec 31 2013
And so brings to an end another year as the calendar clicks over from 2013 to 2014. It was a year that marked some historical milestones: 25 years since Australia Live, the launch of Imparja Television, The Comedy Company and World Expo 88 and Graham Kennedy‘s return to the Nine Network. It was 40 years …
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Dec 23 2013
Cover: Dieter Brummer (Home And Away), Jo Bailey (Looking Good) A joke on the box Production has been completed on the third Fast Forward special 37 And A Bit, taking a comedic look at the Australian TV industry, set to go to air during 1994. The first Fast Forward special, Standing On The Road, featuring …
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Nov 25 2013
Long-running soap Home And Away has topped a poll of Studio 10 viewers and TV Week readers for their Top 25 shows of all time. The show’s overall ranking is reflective of its overall popularity across multiple generations and is still a strong ratings performer for Seven after almost 26 years. Other Australian shows to …
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Sep 29 2013
Cover: Shannen Doherty (Beverly Hills 90210) ‘I’m no heartbreak kid’ The taboo subject to teacher-student romance was tackled in the recent Australian film The Heartbreak Kid, starring Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades. Nine‘s Snowy is about to break the same taboo when Michael (Bernard Curry) sleeps with schoolteacher Lilian (Rebecca Gibney). But Curry, who is …
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May 26 2013
There was some excitement in TV land by the time 1963 — fifty years ago — came around. Television was seven years old in Australia and technology and design had progressed enough that a new generation of TV sets were hitting the market, inevitably to replace the ageing first generation of sets that would be …
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Mar 23 2013
Bruce Skeggs, long-time racing identity and commentator, Victorian politician and founding editor and columnist for TV Week, has died in Melbourne at the age of 81. Skeggs was a race caller for over thirty years, including a world record 34,000 harness races, and in the 1950s was a journalist for former Melbourne newspaper The Argus. After …
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