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Prisoner in Logies Hall of Fame leak
Cult soap Prisoner is in the running for a Hall of Fame Award at the 2010 Logies.
The show will compete with 8 other nominations put forward by television networks, to be decided by a jury. Only one will be successful.
The other 8 are all performers:
Brian Henderson
Ian Ross
Brian Naylor
George Negus
Ken Sutcliffe
Les Murray
Maggie Tabberer
Ray Meagher
Last year’s winner was Bill Collins. It has previously been awarded to either a show or an individual, who could be an on-screen or off-screen industry name.
The names were leaked in today’s Australian newspaper. Traditionally the name of the …
TV’s family values
Some years ago when he was Treasurer, Peter Costello suggested Australian families should have one baby for mum, one for dad and one for the country. Maybe he should have thrown in one for television too.
The traditional, nuclear family is disappearing from primetime television. Yet TV families are amongst our most popular genres.
If you step into the fictional suburb of Erinsborough today you will find great change from its origins. Under the roofs of Ramsay Street there is an array of family groupings: married couples, children, brothers and sisters, friends, step-parents, …
Get out your best Reg Grundies
Television pioneer and magnate Reg Grundy will celebrate his 85th birthday with a bash at a Sydney hotel in December, The Age reports.
Grundy, whose name is synonymous with Australian television, produced game shows from the 1960s after creating Wheel of Fortune, later adding dramas such as Prisoner, The Restless Years, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours to his stable. He sold the Grundy Organisation in 1995 to Pearson, which has subsequently been overtaken by FremantleMedia.
These days he is retired in Bermuda (maybe he hangs out with Bruce Gordon?) with …
Soapie stars come back to screen
Familiar soapie faces are making guest roles in some of our newers dramas this week.
Zoe Bertram from The Restless Years has not one but two appearances this week, on differing networks and on consecutive nights.
Bertram will appear in City Homicide on Monday night.
A night later she pops up in Channel TEN’s Rush.
Meanwhile Home and Away’s Alex Papps will soon be seen in a guest role on City Homicide too.