The jokes bombarded, the winners didn’t show up and the ceremony was as creepy as ever. But between the shipwreck there was a major change.
If you’ve read any headlines about the Lodges today, it looks like it was a train wreck.
From bomb jokes to closet inconveniences and a lot of no-shows, the ceremony sounded exactly like the kind of Sunday night TV car crash that luckily we no longer have to see why the transmission exists.
But you may have missed the important core of last night’s events if you were distracted by the embarrassment of the ceremony, and these are the amazing winners.
The Lodges, the apologetic retreat, the bogan celebration of the soap opera stars and the variety hosts, can they now be respectable …? Or as respectable as the Lodges might be.
He is no longer in debt to the whims of TV Week Hard-working readers and network advertisers who cut out magazine voting forms, Logie winners are now spread across a variety of stations and streamers.
It better reflects the talent group of the Australian entertainment industry and the winners are better aligned with talent and quality.
Just look at who is winning the popular categories: ABC stars Kitty Flanagan, Guy Pearce and Tony Armstrong, and Channel 10 shows You’ve been paying attention, Master of cooking i The project.
None of these winners get the highest scores nor are they the most targeted by the country’s paparazzi. But what they have in common is that they are great shows or talented artists. They are dedicated to creating more things than their Instagram followers.
The large audience volume is not the same as winning awards. Most Popular Logie winners reflect how many fans are forced to see something more than how many people like to see something.
It is the difference between fervent fandom and torpor-driven visualization, and valuations only measure the quantity and not the quality of that devotion.
Hamish Blake is also a well-deserved Gold Logie winner. He works hard, he looks like a good person, he doesn’t take himself too seriously and Lego masters it’s a good family show that recognizes talent and not scandal.
In addition, he has not won for the last four consecutive years.
Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either. Home and away the starlets were really the best the industry had to offer.
Before there was a big disparity between the winners of the popular categories voted by the public and the outstanding categories judged, but no longer.
Like many people saw the exceptional drama series The news reader as they did Popular Entertainment Program Glasses box – and both shows would have a cross-country audience.
Logies voters are now much more representative of the Australian public thanks to the more accessible online voting platform.
ABC, SBS and Foxtel used to dominate the featured categories, but are now well represented in the Popular categories as well, reflecting the fact that traditional outdoor networks, especially channels 7 and 9, are wasting their time more. adjusted. control of the culture of the Australian screen.
It is not limited to Lodges. With real-time streaming and on-demand streaming for a change in viewing habits, the blind acceptance of any mediocre series against which any programmer decided to sell Woolies ads is long overdue.
This is a relic of the past and the declining cultural power of channels 7 and 9 in the Logies in recent years appears on a stage that was previously owned.
Of course, not everything is sunny and rosy because the ceremony itself is still as creepy as a 1996 list of winners.
And Sonia Kruger, whom the NSW Civil and Administrative Court found to have vilified Muslims with her 2016 comments advocating a ban on entering Australia, was still nominated for the Golden Lodge, so no we are exactly sprinting towards an enlightened future. .
Progress is always slow.