The Logies has unveiled probably the most numerous line-up ever to vie for the publicly-voted Gold Logie Award.
In a departure from the all white nominee listing of earlier years, SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin and The Venture’s Waleed Aly are up for the highest gong, alongside Household Feud host Grant Denyer and the star of Miss Fisher’s Homicide Mysteries, Essie Davis, who will duke it out with former Gold Logie winners Scott Cam and Carrie Bickmore on Might eight.
Gold Logie nominees introduced
The nominees for the 2016 TV Week Gold Logie award at their greatest.
Although Chin’s nomination might come as a shock to many individuals, she has had loads of time to brace herself for it.
“Simply determined to win the gold subsequent yr,” she tweeted final Might. “I deserve it.”
Although the tweets which have helped maker her a cult social media star aren’t the truth is written by her, however by comic Chris Leben, her colleague on SBS2’s The Feed, Chin’s nomination – like that of Aly – suggests the fifty eight-yr-previous tv reputation contest has lastly embraced the notion of variety.
Then once more, perhaps it merely means that the publicity groups at Ten and SBS have been busy voting from each pc, laptop computer, sensible telephone and pill they will lay their arms on.
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“In all my time I do not assume we have ever seen an inventory like this,” stated Emma Nolan, editor of TV Week, which levels the Logies, for the previous 10 years. “It is totally different, in a great way – it is numerous when it comes to gender, age and background.”
The nominees in 24 classes plus the Gold have been introduced on Sunday afternoon at Crown in Melbourne.
The 15 “most excellent” classes are peer-voted, whereas the 9 “greatest” classes and the Gold Logie are voted by members of the general public.
Three of the peer-voted awards have been introduced on Sunday. Joel Jackson gained the Most Excellent Newcomer – Actor award for his portrayal of Peter Allen within the Seven mini-collection Peter Allen: Not the Boy Subsequent Door. He beat out himself (his second nomination got here for his efficiency as conflict correspondent C.L. Bean in Foxtel’s Deadline Gallipoli) and Rahel Romahn, who performed troubled teen Tarek Ahmad in SBS’s The Principal.
Melina Vidler gained the equal award for an actress for her flip as Shay Turner in Seven’s New Zealand-set household dramedy 800 Phrases.
The Graham Kennedy Breakthrough Star of Tomorrow Award went to Ky Baldwin, who performed the youthful Peter Allen in Not The Boy Subsequent Door.
Lee Lin Chin vs Lara Bingle
Lee Lin Chin stars in an SBS promo which takes off the notorious “The place the bloody hell are you?” tourism marketing campaign.
In numerical phrases, the ABC dominates the nominations, with 29, adopted by Seven (24), 9 (21), Foxtel (18), Ten (sixteen) and SBS (5, together with one for Indigenous channel NITV).
Stan, the streaming co-enterprise between Fairfax and 9, picked up two nominations.
The 2016 TV Week Logie Awards will happen at Crown and air on 9 on Might eight.
Gold Logie
Waleed Aly
Carrie Bickmore
Scott Cam
Lee Lin Chin
Essie Davis
Grant Denyer
Greatest Presenter
Amanda Keller (The Dwelling Room, Community Ten)
Carrie Bickmore (The Undertaking, Community Ten)
Grant Denyer (Household Feud/ The Nice Australian Spelling Bee, Community Ten)
Lee Lin Chin (SBS World Information/The Feed, SBS)
Waleed Aly (The Challenge, Community Ten)
Greatest New Expertise
Adam Dovile (Higher Houses and Gardens, Channel Seven)
Benson Jack Anthony (800 Phrases, Channel Seven)
Dan Reilly (The Block, 9 Community)
Joel Jackson (Deadline Gallipoli/ Peter Allen: Not The Boy Subsequent Door, Foxtel – Showcase/Channel Seven)
Pia Miller (Residence and Away, Channel Seven)
Greatest Drama Program
800 Phrases (Channel Seven)
A Place To Name House (Foxtel – SoHo)
Residence and Away (Channel Seven)
Home Husbands (9 Community)
Love Baby (9 Community)
Greatest Leisure Program
Household Feud (Community Ten)
Gruen (ABC)
Have You Been Paying Consideration? (Community Ten)
The Voice (9 Community)
The X Issue Australia (Channel Seven)
Greatest Information Panel or Present Affairs Program
60 Minutes (9 Community)
Q&A (ABC)
Dawn (Channel Seven)
The Challenge (Community Ten)
Right now (9 Community)
Greatest Actuality Program
I am a Superstar … Get Me Out of Right here! (Community Ten)
MasterChef Australia (Community Ten)
My Kitchen Guidelines (Channel Seven)
The Bachelorette Australia (Community Ten)
The Block (9 Community)
Greatest Sports activities Program
AFL 360 (Foxtel – Fox Footy)
Marngrook Footy Present (NITV)
The AFL Footy Present (9 Community)
The NRL Footy Present (9 Community)
Large World of Sports activities (9 Community)
Greatest Way of life Program
Higher Houses and Gardens (Channel Seven)
Gardening Australia (ABC)
Getaway (9 Community)
Promoting Homes Australia (Foxtel – The LifeStyle Channel)
The Dwelling Room (Community Ten)
Greatest Factual Program
Australian Story (ABC)
Bondi Rescue (Community Ten)
Bondi Vet (Community Ten)
Gogglebox (Foxtel – The LifeStyle Channel/Community Ten)
Who Do You Assume You Are? (SBS)
Most Excellent Actor
Alex Dimitriades (Matt Bashir, The Principal, SBS)
Hugh Dancy (Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, Deadline Gallipoli, Foxtel – Showcase)
Malcolm Kennard (Ivan Milat, Catching Milat, Channel Seven)
Patrick Brammall (James Hayes, Glitch, ABC)
Sam Neill (Lang Hancock, Home of Hancock, 9 Community)
Most Excellent Actress
Deborah Mailman (Lorraine, Redfern Now: Promise Me, ABC)
Essie Davis (Phryne Fisher, Miss Fisher’s Homicide Mysteries, ABC)
Mandy McElhinney (Gina Rinehart, Home of Hancock, 9 Community)
Pamela Rabe (Joan Ferguson, Wentworth, Foxtel – SoHo)
Sarah Snook (Anna Ivin, The Lovely Lie, ABC)
Most Excellent Supporting Actor
Dan Wyllie (Jimmy, No Exercise, Stan)
David Berry (James Bligh, A Place To Name House, Foxtel – SoHo)
Ryan Corr (Corporal MacDonald, Banished, Foxtel – BBC First)
Tim Minchin (Jacob, No Exercise, Stan)
Tim Minchin (Smasher Sullivan, The Secret River, ABC)
Most Excellent Supporting Actress
Celia Eire (Liz Birdsworth, Wentworth, Foxtel – SoHo)
Emily Barclay (Sarah Hayes, Glitch, ABC)
Harriet Dyer (Patricia Saunders, Love Youngster, 9 Community)
Jenni Baird (Regina Standish, A Place To Name Residence, Foxtel – SoHo)
Rarriwuy Hick (Robyn Davis, Redfern Now: Promise Me, ABC)
Most Excellent Drama Collection
800 Phrases (Channel Seven)
A Place To Name Residence (Foxtel – SoHo)
Glitch (ABC)
Love Baby (9 Community)
Wentworth (Foxtel – SoHo
Most Excellent Miniseries or Telemovie
Deadline Gallipoli (Foxtel – showcase)
Home of Hancock (9 Community)
Peter Allen: Not The Boy Subsequent Door (Channel Seven)
The Lovely Lie (ABC)
The Secret River (ABC)
Most Excellent Leisure Program
Gruen (ABC)
Have You Been Paying Consideration? (Community Ten)
The Voice (9 Community)
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering (ABC)
The X Issue Australia (Channel Seven)
Most Excellent Comedy Program
No Exercise (Stan)
Open Slather (Foxtel – The Comedy Channel)
Please Like Me (ABC)
Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell (ABC)
Utopia (ABC)
Most Excellent Information Protection
“Iraq-Syria Struggle Protection” (ABC 7pm Information, ABC)
“Liberal Management Disaster: Abbott V Turnbull” (Foxtel – SKY NEWS LIVE)
“Migrant Disaster – Particular Report” (ABC 7pm Information, ABC)
“Paris Assault” (Seven Information, Channel Seven)
“Parramatta Capturing” (Seven Information, Channel Seven)
Most Excellent Public Affairs Report
“Catching A Monster” (60 Minutes, 9 Community)
“Hitting House” (Hitting House, ABC)
“Making A Killing” (4 Corners, ABC)
“The Killing Season” (The Killing Season, ABC)
“The Siege Survivors” (60 Minutes, 9 Community)
Most Excellent Sports activities Protection
2015 Australian Open (Channel Seven/7TWO)
Emirates Melbourne Cup (Channel Seven)
KFC T20 Massive Bash League (Community Ten)
NRL Telstra Premiership Grand Remaining (9 Community)
Holden State Of Origin II (9 Community)
Most Excellent Youngsters’s Program
Bottersnikes & Gumbles (Channel Seven)
Bushwacked! (ABC3)
Little Lunch (ABC3)
Play Alongside With Sam (Foxtel – Nick Jr.)
Prepared For This (ABC3)
Already introduced
Most Excellent Newcomer – Actor
Joel Jackson (Charles Bean, Deadline Gallipoli, Foxtel- Showcase)
Joel Jackson (Peter Allen, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Subsequent Door, Channel Seven)
Rahel Romahn (Tarek Ahmad, The Principal, SBS)
Most Excellent Newcomer – Actress
Hannah Monson (Kirstie Darrow, Glitch, ABC)
Melina Vidler (Shay Turner, 800 Phrases, Channel Seven)
Sara West (Liza Minnelli, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Subsequent Door, Channel Seven)
The Graham Kennedy Breakthrough Star of Tomorrow
Benson Jack Anthony (Arlo Turner, 800 Phrases, Channel Seven)
Ky Baldwin (Younger Peter Allen, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Subsequent Door, Channel
Seven)
Olivia DeJonge (Shaneen Quigg/Tara Swift, Hiding, ABC)