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Logie Award For Most Popular Drama Program
The Silver Logie Most Popular Drama Program is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. It recognises the popularity of an Australian drama production. It was first awarded at the Logie Awards of 1977, 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards, held in 1977 when it was originally called Most Popular Australian Drama. This award category was eliminated in 1989 when the category ''Logie Award for Most Popular Series, Most Popular Series'' replaced it, but was reintroduced in 1991, only to be eliminated again the following year for that alternative category name. It returned in 1994 for three years alongside that other category. After a seven-year absence, the category was reintroduced in 2004. Over the years, it has been known as Most Popular Drama (1978, 1986, 1988), Most Popular Drama Series (1979–1984, 1987, 1991, 2008–2013), Most Popular Drama Program (1985, 2014–15), Most Popular Australian Drama Series (2004–2005) and Best Drama Program (2016-2017). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Television in Australia, Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards. The Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the ''Most Popular Personality on Australian Television'' for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoner (TV Series)
''Prisoner'' (known in the UK and the US as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'' and in Canada as ''Caged Women'') is an Australian television soap opera, which was broadcast on Network Ten (formerly the 0-10 Network) from February 27 (Melbourne) and February 26 (Sydney) 1979 to December 1986 (Melbourne), running eight series and 692 episodes. ''Prisoner'' was the first Australian series to feature a primarily female-dominated cast and carried the slogan "If you think prison is hell for a man, imagine what it would be like for a woman!" The series, produced by the Grundy Organisation, was conceived by Reg Watson and filmed at the then-Network Ten Melbourne Studios at Nunawading and on location. The series garnered an international cult following, and it was one of Australia's most successful media exports, exported to 80 countries, performing particularly well in the United States and Canada (billed as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'' and ''Caged Women'', respectively). It also built a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1991
The 33rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 15 March 1991 at the World Congress Centre in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers and guests included Angie Dickinson, Michael Ontkean and Peggy Lipton. Nominees and winners Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. National awards Gold Logie Acting/Presenting Most Popular Programs/Videos Most Outstanding Programs State awards New South Wales ;Most Popular Personality :Winner: Ray Martin (Nine Network) ;Most Popular Program :Winner: ''Home and Away'' (Seven Network) Queensland ;Most Popular Personality :Winner: Rob Brough (Seven Network) ;Most Popular Program :Winner: ''Family Feud'' (Seven Network) South Australia ;Most Popular Personality :Winner: Anne Wills (Network Ten) ;Most Popular Program :Winner: '' Wheel of Fortune'' (Seven Network) Tasmania ;Most Popular Personality :Winner: Robyn Martin ( TVT6) ;Most Popular Program :Winner: ''Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1988
The 30th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 11 March 1988 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Daryl Somers and guests included Mickey Rooney and Bea Arthur. Winners Gold Logie ;Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Most Popular Personality on Australian Television :''Winner:'' Kylie Minogue in ''Neighbours'' (Network Ten) Acting ;Logie Award for Most Popular Actor, Most Popular Actor :''Winner:'' Jason Donovan in ''Neighbours'' (Network Ten) ;Logie Award for Most Popular Actress, Most Popular Actress :''Winner:'' Kylie Minogue in ''Neighbours'' (Network Ten) ;Most Popular Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie: :''Winner:'' Nicholas Eadie in ''Vietnam (miniseries), Vietnam'' (Network Ten) ;Most Popular Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie: :''Winner:'' Nicole Kidman in ''Vietnam (miniseries), Vietnam'' (Network Ten) ;Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor, Most Outsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera that has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and Daughters''. Although successful in Melbourne, ''Neighbours'' underperformed in the Sydney market and was cancelled by Seven four months after it began airing. It was immediately commissioned by rival Network Ten for a second production season, which began screening on 20 January 1986. ''Neighbours'' became the longest-running drama series in Australian television history. In 2005, it was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. The storylines concern the lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series centres on the residents of Ramsay Street, a dead end street, and its neighbouring area, the Lassiters complex, which includes a bar, hotel, café, police station, lawyers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1987
The 29th Annual ''TV Week'' Logie Awards was held on Friday 3 April 1987 at the Hyatt on Collins in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Don Lane and guests included Lee Majors, Brian Dennehy, Loretta Swit, Harry Hamlin, Laura Johnson, Leeza Gibbons, Dame Edna Everage and Nicole Kidman. Nominees and winners Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. The nominations for the public voting categories and national awards were published in the 4 April 1987 issue of ''TV Week''. National awards Gold Logie Acting Most Popular Programs/Videos Most Outstanding Programs State awards New South Wales ;Most Popular Personality :''Winner:'' Ray Martin (Nine Network) ; Most Popular Program :''Winner:'' '' A Country Practice'' (Seven Network) Queensland ;Most Popular Personality :''Winner:'' Jacki MacDonald (Nine Network) ; Most Popular Program :''Winner:'' '' State Affair'' (Seven Network) South Australia ;Most Popular Personality :'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1986
The 28th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 18 April 1986 at the State Theatre in Sydney, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Willesee and guests included John Denver, Paul Hogan, Veronica Hamel, Phyllis Diller, Gordon Jackson and Sam Neill and Laura Branigan. National Awards Gold Logie ; Most Popular Personality on Australian Television :''Winner:'' Daryl Somers in ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' (Nine Network) Acting/Presenting ; Most Popular Australian Actor :''Winner:'' Grant Dodwell in '' A Country Practice'' (Seven Network) ; Most Popular Australian Actress :''Winner:'' Anne Tenney in '' A Country Practice'' (Seven Network) ;Most Popular Australian Actor in a Miniseries or Telemovie :''Winner:'' Andrew Clarke in ''Anzacs'' (Nine Network) ;Most Popular Australian Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie :''Winner:'' Megan Williams in ''Anzacs'' (Nine Network) ; Most Popular New Talent :''Winner:'' Peter O'Brien in ''Neigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1985
The 27th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 26 April 1985 at the World Trade Centre in Melbourne, and broadcast on Network Ten. The ceremony was hosted by Greg Evans. Guests included Anne Baxter, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Pamela Bellwood, Jane Badler, Melody Thomas, James Brolin, Andrew Stevens and Mel Blanc. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. Gold Logie Acting/Presenting Most Popular Programs Best/Outstanding Programs Performers * Ricky May * Marcia Hines * Debra Byrne Hall of Fame After a lifetime in the Australian television industry, Ken G. Hall became the second inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame. References External links * {{Logie Awards years 1985 1985 television awards 1985 in Australian television 1980s in Melbourne Logie Awards The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Australian televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Country Practice
''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera/serial which was broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 22 November 1993, and subsequently on Network Ten from 13 April 1994 to 5 November 1994. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,088 episodes were produced. The show was produced at the ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales; Pitt Town and Oakville, suburbs on the outskirts of northwest Sydney, Australia, were used for most of the exterior filming, with the historic heritage-listed Clare House, built in 1838, serving as the location of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital. Many other fictional locations, including Dr. Terence Elliot's ( Shane Porteous) medical practice, Frank and Shirley Gilroy's house Brian Wenzel and Lorrae Desmond, the Wandin Valley Church and Burrigan High School were filmed in the Hawkesbury. Several of the regular cast members became popular celebrities as a result of their roles in the series. It also fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Awards Of 1984
The 26th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Friday 6 April 1984 at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Bert Newton. Guests included Christopher Atkins, Heather Thomas, Tony Randall, Dwight Schultz, Douglas Barr, Gerald McRaney, Rich Little, Bob Hawke, Dame Edna Everage, Pamela Stephenson and John Bertrand. National Awards Gold Logie ; Most Popular Personality on Australian Television :''Winner:'' Bert Newton in '' The Don Lane Show'' (Nine Network) ::Nominees: Tony Barber, Daryl Somers, Mike Walsh, Rowena Wallace Acting/Presenting ; Most Popular Actor :''Winner:'' Grant Dodwell in '' A Country Practice'' (Seven Network) ::Nominees: Kevin Miles in '' Carson's Law'' (Ten Network), Shane Porteous in ''A Country Practice'' ; Most Popular Actress :''Winner:'' Rowena Wallace in '' Sons and Daughters'' (Seven Network) ::Nominees: Penny Cook in ''A Country Practice'' (Seven Network), Lorraine Bayly in '' Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons And Daughters (Australian TV Series)
''Sons and Daughters'' is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It was created by executive Reg Watson, and is distributed by Fremantle. Sons and Daughters is remembered for its regular use of dramatic end-of-season cliffhangers and its most famous character; Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton, initially played by Rowena Wallace, who became the second soap opera actor, rather than personality after Pat McDonald to win the Gold Logie award for her performance in the role - (McDonald had previously won the Gold Logie for her role in 70's soap opera '' Number 96'' as Dorrie Evans, coincidentally she also starred in Sons and Daughters, featuring for its entire run. Wallace decided to leave the series, and in 1985 her popular character was recast, with Belinda Giblin taking over the role, in a story-arc which sees the character receiving extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
