The TV Week Logie Awards

Tonight we will view the 56th night of The Logies.

The TV Week Logie Awards commenced in 1958 and were called the TV Week Awards. Graham Kennedy won the first 'Star of the Year' Logie in 1959. He later re-named the awards to The Logies after the inventor of television John Logie Baird.

The TV Week magazine is the organisation that controls the Logies.

'Most Popular' categories are voted by the public, originally by filling in the voting paper in the TV week magazine and becoming online since 2011. 'Most Outstanding' categories are peer-voted. The 'Hall of Fame' was added in 1984 and is a peer-voted category.

There has been a variety of hosts, the most popular by far would have to be Bert Newton, who had the ability to ad-lib better than anybody, which is how he got out of trouble with his little unfortunate gaffe when he said about Muhammad Ali "I like the boy".

There has been a few overseas guest presenters who were not a bit interested in the job at hand, the main stand-out was Matt Le Blanc and who could forget Michael Cole who was quite inebriated when he hit the stage and dropped the 'S' word, Oh, shit, which in 1973 was the first time this profanity had been heard on Australian TV, how things have changed since then with the 'F' word sadly becoming common place.

I always love watching The Logies but sometimes disagree with the winners, hate the long boring speeches, don't always enjoy the performing artists, who predominantly are overseas artists. The awards are Australian TV awards so why not have Australian performers?

The Logies have been telecast on Channel 9 since 1996, previously being alternated between 7, 10 and 9.

My forecast for tonight's winners are:
Gold Logie:                    Scott Cam
Outstanding Drama:       haven't watched any (what has happened to Drama series in Aust TV?)
Outstanding Actor:         Power Games Packer-Murdoch (only one I watched from nominations)
Most Popular Actor:       Hugh Sheridan
Most Popular Actress:    Rebecca Gibney
Most Popular Presenter: Scott Cam
Most Popular Drama:     Winners & Losers
Outstanding Light Ent Program:  The Voice
Most Popular Lifestyle Program:  Better Homes & Gardens
Most Popular Sports Program:      RFL Footy.

It is good to see that Channel 9 have finally seen reason to start the broadcast an hour earlier and just maybe I will get to bed before midnight and hopefully do not wake up when it is all over!

Let me know your highlights of The Logies over the years.