I thourght they were the best since 2005! In recent years the Logies have been an embaressing represntation of talent in Australia as they only focased on one lame show- Home and away! But this year it was great seeing all the awards shared out nicely and it was great seeing new shows like Packed to the Rafters and Underbelly take home main awards. Even though I kind of wanted Ian Smith to get Gold, (And I belive he was robbed of best actor by that talentless Home and away chap!) I am really glad Rebecca Gibney got it, she definatly deserved to win something after all the nominations she’s had over the years and her performance in Packed to the Rafters was fantastic!

However it wasn’t all good as Gretle proved to be a crap host, her terrible efforts at trying to interest and engage the audince and her poor atempts at comedy just were cringworthingly bad!

And I’m sorry but I agree with neon Kitten about Annie Lenox, It wasn’t one of her most favarourable performances. Jessica Mauboy and Natatlie Bassingthwaite were fantastic!

But I am would never want the Logies to come to an end, call me sad but they are one of the highlights of my year! I love the tackiness of some of the guests and I take most things I see with a pinch of salt!! I realy enjoyed watching it and it was lovely to see all of the industry’s biggest stars and shows come together! It was also a good representation of how much Australian TV has vastly improved since this time last year…

Too many ’skits’ and relying on comedians like the Umbilical Brothers (who i’ve never found funny). The good things were the pre-recorded bits, and Annie Lennox – always had a soft spot for her.

By the way, how does a s**t show like “Mark & Sharon”, which aired for a total of about 3 weeks and was completely unfunny even get a nomination ? The show was on in 2008 FFS !

I don’t see why people are complaining so much about the quality of the awards presented. The public vote for the popular awards and the industry votes for the outstanding awards, so everyone is represented. The Gold Logie is awarded to the most popular personality on Australian TV (not the most outstanding), so if someone is popular enough to have people spend a heap of money texting or phoning their votes in, then good for them!

As for the nominations themselves, they were pretty strict this year in that you could only vote once and if you wanted to vote more than once, you’d have to create multiple email accounts, use different IP sessions to send them and spend time filling in every category (partial votes weren’t allowed – you had to vote for every single category) – or you had to fill in multiple forms with different addresses. In this day and age, it would be very easy to see if someone was voting multiple times, since every vote goes into a database with details etc. Aside from TV Week actually insisting on the use of a shortlist for each category, the voting is probably fairer now than it has been for a long time.

I’ve watched the Logies for years and this one would have to be one of the worst. I watched for about 30 minutes or so – Wil Anderson and Shaun Micallief were the only two good things I saw.

* Gretel in the Ladies Room was toilet humour and it showed.
* The announcer got the name of the show wrong when he introduced Kerry O’Brien and said he was from TV Report.
* What was it with that montage of awards presented earlier in the evening? Were these actually shown or was it something done before the telecast even started? I can understand why 9 didn’t show them – as far as I know no channel 9 shows were nominated in any of the categories. Will this be the beginning of new trend?
* That Network 10 skit was totally pointless and fell flat.

Like I said I gave up after 30 minutes or so. Maybe the ABC should host it next year – we might get a better show.

- Hold it in a theatre, not in a cramped little ballroom. The current setup doesn’t exactly make it seem like a big event.
- Bring the funny! Australia has plenty of good comedians, get a good one and give them several weeks to script and rehearse the whole thing. There is no way we should settle for the sort of lame skits we got this year.
- Get rid of TV Week, or alternatively get rid of popular voting for the awards. Particularly the Gold Logie. The current situation is that most of the big awards are decided entirely by the televisual connoisseurs who read TV Week, which makes the whole thing a festival of mediocrity where the latest untalented, white-bread Home & Away hottie and the latest cookie-cutter Seven factual are guaranteed to prevail over shows and actors that display actual skill, talent or craft. It’s embarrassing to watch everything that’s actually at all good get passed over every year. The Emmys largely reward quality, why can’t the Logies?

Meanwhile, I think it’s time we got rid of televising the Logies! Maybe they should shoot it and do a 60-minute highlights show, and that’s it.

It’s an event that is bland, and has its head up its own backside.

I’m not blaming Gretel for last night – because I don’t think many people can host the Logies and make it entertaining.

The only time I can see myself watching the Logies again is if Shaun Micallef hosts.

Australia has no A-List actors or actresses – let’s stop pretending we do.

It’s not as if Radio broadcasts the ACRA’s… it’s not as if PayTV broadcasts the ASTRA’s. Why must we do this? Is it just because the US does it? Well if that’s the case, the ratings for those sort of awards nights aren’t great for a good reason – it’s not compelling TV.

Even back when awards show where at the places like the state theatre in sydney, It was always the public that bought the shows to life. I can still hear the shouts of many directors wanting to electrify the seats in the industry seats just to make sure that they were alive. The logies has always lacked that element of the public audience ( the ones that clap, cheer and laugh) . The ones that genuinely want to be there to see the show. Not folk that are there to represent or fill a company seat at the company table. Or need quality networking time. A show that doesn’t work live will never translate to a TV audience as exciting and fun.

I understand that many are there for the right reasons, but while the room is filled a lot of pissed diners that don’t care , I don’t think it has a chance of ever being a great show, regardless of who hosts it. I also believe that Crown Ballroom is possibly the worst venue for it. It needs to get out of that little ballroom and grew with the industry.