Dec 30 2009
Each week for the past two years we’ve been documenting the events of Australian TV during the corresponding week of thirty years ago – 1978 and 1979 – as reported in TV Times magazine. Now, sadly, we have to bring that sequence of posts to an end as we do not have a weekly archive …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/12/going-to-party-like-its-1990.html
May 03 2009
After more than twenty years in television it had been a long time coming – but the 21st anniversary TV Week Logie Awards finally saw Bert Newton win his first Gold Logie. Newton, a veteran Logies host as well as host of New Faces and sidekick on The Don Lane Show, had been nominated several …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/05/1979-21st-tv-week-logie-awards.html
Apr 20 2009
TV Week has announced Bill Collins as the 26th inductee into the TV Week Logies Awards’ Hall of Fame. For over forty years, Collins has shared his passion for movies with many thousands of magazine readers and TV viewers. Formerly a lecturer at the Sydney Teachers’ College, Collins began presenting movie reviews on ABC’s afternoon …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/04/bill-collins-joins-logies-hall-of-fame.html
Mar 30 2009
Who was the most popular personality on Australian television in 2008? The list of nominees for the major award for this year’s TV Week Logie Awards has found itself inadvertently promoted in advance of the awards’ launch party scheduled for today. The Nine Network yesterday (Sunday) ran advertisements for the special edition of TV Week, …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/03/tvs-gold-rush-begins-early.html
Mar 15 2009
Since the advent of the home video cassette recorder it had been a running joke that it was a mammoth, if not perplexing, task for anyone – or at least, anyone over the age of puberty – to attempt to pre-program the VCR to tape programs in advance. No two VCR models were the same …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/03/hitting-the-g-code-spot.html
Feb 27 2009
https://www.televisionau.com FLASHBACK PICTURE #49: ABC‘s long-running medical drama GP was never one to shy away from controversial medical and social topics. In 1994 the series tackled the topic of homosexuality when new doctor Martin Dempsey (Damian Rice) is depicted in a relationship with Patrick Walsh, played by Lochie Daddo. Not since the days of Number …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2009/02/televisionau-update-28-feb-09.html
Dec 24 2008
The Queensland Government has reportedly made a bid for the Gold Coast to host the TV Week Logie Awards in an attempt to take the awards away from their traditional home of Melbourne. Queensland Government representatives made the offer to executives of PBL Media, owners of TV Week and the Nine Network, to pay for …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/12/beautiful-one-day-logies-the-next.html
Feb 04 2008
It is that time of year again – voting has opened for the TV Week Logie Awards, but this year there’s a new twist to proceedings. For the first time in its 50 year history, you don’t need to buy a copy of TV Week to have your vote. As well as the magazine publishing …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2008/02/its-logie-voting-with-a-new-twist.html
Nov 27 2007
TV Week this week celebrates 50 years of publication with a special commemorative edition – showing some of the highlights, celebrities and events that the magazine has covered in the last half-century. A history of Australia’s sole surviving national television magazine is at TelevisionAU
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/11/happy-50th-tv-week.html
Apr 02 2007
TV Week has announced its nominations for the upcoming 2007 TV Week Logie Awards. While a lot of the popular-voted categories might bring groans of “Who?” from anyone over the age of 18 – there are a couple of surprises particularly in the Gold Logie nominations: Bert Newton – host of 18 Logie Awards presentations, …
Permanent link to this article: https://televisionau.com/2007/04/tv-week-logie-awards-announce-nominations.html
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