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Logies want to wrap earlier

How do you ensure the Logies finishes the night by 11pm?

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Here’s a topic that everyone has an opinion on…..

The Logie Awards want to see their ceremony finish earlier next year.

It follows Waleed Aly being announced winner at around 11:45pm this year.

TV Week publisher Jayne Fer­guson told has told The Australian, “I would like the viewers at home to see the Gold before 11 o’clock.

“There’s definitely ways we can tighten up the telecast.”

Amongst some of the ideas it might consider is having the broadcast start earlier. Begin the Red Carpet at 6:30pm and the Awards at 7pm please. Four hours is plenty to nod to a year of TV.

A stand alone Hall of Fame event would cut back on the speeches and allow for others to be recognised, in line with TV’s ageing history. Good luck working out how to fund it.

Bauer remains rapt with the awards overall, which earned $41 million in media value in print alone and saw TV audiences lift this year.

“We had a lot more debate leading into this Logies about the relevance of the awards, about the nominees, and categories and it did catch people’s attention,” Ferguson said.

Meanwhile, Dubbo is promising a one hour bite-size event for 2017.

24 Responses

  1. Happily produce the Logies and get everyone in bed by 10.45! Just requires control and stoppibg too long too boring self congratulatory speeches (sorry Noni) and junk humour that’s falls flat. Don’t they run through this stuff in something called a rehearsal ? Or are he producers shot scared of offending talent ?
    The Logies are a dinosaur and we know how they ended up …

  2. They can save 90 minutes by ditching the ads. The TV/advertisement industry makes millions of dollars every year, I am pretty sure they can afford one night a year without ads

  3. How about a seperate and smaller ceremony for news & current affairs?

    I mean it’s always jarring in the Logies to suddenly have a sobering montage of the year’s news event

  4. I think the biggest contributor to an overly long telecast is the doubling up of virtually the same awards being handed out for Best and most outstanding. Do we really need a best award of everything and a most outstanding of everything handed out? Personally I would cut all of the public voted awards except the Gold logie and make a bigger deal of the industry voted most outstanding awards. Perhaps it may even add more prestige to the event if the majority of the awards are decided by a group of people working in the industry, similar to how other awards like the Emmys or Oscars are decided. Plus then there would be half the amount of awards to hand out, therefore you’d easily cut 90 mins from the current length of the show.

    1. Best option of all the ones expressed here. The Most Outstanding are the only genuine awards.

      Another option is to combine the industry opinions with the popular vote, using some formula to give slightly more weighting to the industry. Then, just present one Best award.

  5. the most obvious cut is the musical performances, i think when it was 10:00 and richard wilkins started the introduction for Jimmy Barnes there were millions of Australian that thought ‘just get on with it’.

    The news/current affairs awards do not suit the tone of the night and should be skimmed over the logies shouldn’t even try to compete with the walkleys. childrens show, lifestyle and factual can also be skimmed. the footy show’s award should not exist. such a narrow genre should be included as light entertainment, especially now that panel/talk shows and comedy have their own awards.

  6. Have the awards start at 7pm on the dot will help. Having presenters who aren’t comedians trying to be “funny” doesn’t help the length of the awards either. Just stick to presenting the actual award. Only have one pair of comedians do the jokes on the night (aka – Peter Helliar and Kitty this year; Roy and HG in the past etc).

    Could the Logies ever hold another ceremony outside the main Logies Ceremony? Where they can give the Hall of Fame there and the less popular awards? And air an “highlights version” during the main ceremony, or straight afterwards? The AACTA Awards have the Industry Luncheon days prior to the Main Awards, where they hand out some technical awards and the “lesser known awards”. And it works well for them.

  7. Agree about the concept of a earlier start.

    To achieve it, the red carpet will need to have the stars start going down it, at 3pm, and have it finished by 5:45pm, for a 6pm dinner and 7:00:01pm broadcast start.

    Red Carpet can then be broadcast live and in full on 9Go, instead of a highlight reel at 7pm. Red Carpet design itself must also be looked into, to speed up the process of invited guests going down it.

    1. 3 hours of “who are you wearing”?? Would anyone watch that? The edited highlights are tedious enough.

      Happy to see the Red Carpet “highlights” telecast relegated to Go or Gem, though.

  8. 11pm is to late as well. These show show be finished at 10pm. My view to many guest presenterswho walk onto the stage trying to be funny with each other and waffle on. Have a true host, like a Bert Newton, who hosts the show and have guests present them with their logie. For the Gold have a major star make the big announcement.

  9. I’m going to go ahead and suggest that having both a “Best something” and a “Most Outstanding something” is a pretty big reason the Logies go on for so long.

    Just ditch one of them and we’ll be done by 9.30pm.

  10. How do you get the Gold announced prior to 11pm? Easy – make sure a Ch 9 face wins it. Once the Logie network discovers the winner is from a competitor, they have no interest in making a timely announcement.

  11. I’d suggest cut the musical performances too – one to open and one to close.

    The “less important” categories like Best Lifestyle, Best Factual, Best Reality, Best News/Panel Show, Best Sports Coverage/Outstanding Sports Coverage, Outstanding News Coverage, Best Children’s Show – present earlier in the evening but don’t broadcast them (similar to what they do with The Grammy Awards). Just have a montage of winners going to a break.

    1. That’s not a bad idea, though I’d quibble over the categories – I think most of the ones you’ve listed are the programme types people watch the most!

      Or they could do it without any ad breaks. That ought to cut at least 45 minutes out of the broadcast…

        1. Well, Nine’s already shown it’s quite happy to put people into a dilemma over money just to make a few hours of TV programme. I was simply returning the favour…

  12. Earlier start makes sense. Tho can’t see a stand alone Hall of Fame ever getting off the grounds. Instead, simply cut the intro to Hall of Fame to under 5 mins [this year’s was far too loooooong) and limit their speech [once again – far too loooooong].
    Over the night, cut out the “double nomination reads” and reduce the musical acts. That should get them finished well before 11.

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