Logies 2000

Lisa arriving at the Logies

Logie winners - full list

Most outstanding children's program - Hi 5 Nine Network.
Most popular new female talent - Jane Allsop (Blue Heelers Seven Network.
Most popular new male talent - Justin Melvey (Home and Away Seven Network.
Silver Logie most popular program - Blue Heelers Seven.
Most outstanding comedy program - The Micallef Program (ABC).
Silver Logie most popular actor - Martin Sacks (Blue Heelers) Seven.
Silver Logie most popular actress - Lisa McCune (Blue Heelers) Seven.
Most popular lifestyle program - Better Homes and Gardens (Seven).
Most popular reality program - RPA Nine.
Most outstanding sports coverage - Tie 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships (Nine), Bathurst FAI 1000 (Ten).
Most popular sports program - The Footy Show - NRL (Nine).
Most outstanding news coverage - Timor Seven nightly news (Seven).
Most popular comedy - light entertainment program - Hey, Hey It's Saturday (Nine).
Most popular public affairs program (A Current Affair) Nine.
Most outstanding documentary - special report in a public affairs program - Facing the Demons (ABC)
TV Week Logie Awards hall of fame - Bruce Gyngell.
Most outstanding actor in a series - William McIness (SeaChange ABC).
Most outstanding actress in a series - Sigrid Thornton (SeaChange ABC).
Most outstanding drama series - SeaChange (ABC).
Gold Logie most popular personality on Australian television - Lisa McCune

Lisa and Tim arriving at the Logies

Georgie Parker and Eric Thompson

Sigrid Thornton

Gary Sweet with his new looks !

(Pictures: Craig Sillitoe)
McCune wins 4th gold Logie
By PETER WILMOTH
Monday 1 May 2000

Her entrance in front of fans screaming her name and her arrival fashionably late might have provided a good clue to Lisa McCune's fourth consecutive gold Logie.

The former Blue Heelers actor last night became the first woman to win four gold Logies. The silver Logie for most popular actor went to the man who played opposite her in the show, Martin Sacks.

"The tenth and the last for a long time maybe," McCune said in accepting the award.

"Firstly can I please thank all the wonderful viewers who have supported Blue Heelers and everything else on Australian television. "(Thank you) especially for your support of me. You have picked me up and you have elevated me to a point where people want to come and see me in other things." A humble McCune told a news conference afterwards "I can't begin to describe to you how humbling ... you appreciate it more than you can say," she said. "There are people all over this country who I will never meet or see who have voted for me. "Tonight is a very weird time for me - here I am winning awards for a character who has been and gone. Hopefully we will always remember her with a lot of love."

For the second year in a row the Logie awards disappointed those who used to tune in just to endure the pain of watching a supermarket magazine popularity contest.

Andrew Denton's performance last night was again inspired, wiping some of the Cheshire cat smiles off the faces of Australian television celebrities, even if he does seem now on a mission to out-Denton himself.

Denton homed in on James Packer upon whose knee he sat last year causing Mr Packer to lament: "Where's Daryl?" referring to the safer and less interesting Daryl Somers, who used to sometimes host the Logies. He asked Mr Packer: "Is the food okay, is the wine okay, is there anyone we can sack? Every time a Channel Nine personality is sacked another ruby grows on your dad's farm because, let's be honest, you're wealthy buggers. I was watching the news the other night and the usual images, a politician, an airline, a gold mine, some football team ... to us, that's the news, to you, that's the home shopping channel."

Denton asked Don Burke if he had always had a beard. "Yes, fake for the first six years, real now." Denton responded: "What about the personality, real or fake?". Denton jibed at Channel Seven's watermark, the Seven logo that is permanently at the bottom of the screen. "Where are my manners?" he said. "I shouldn't be talking to anyone on television without one of these." Denton said to Sam Newman: "The facelift - nobody would ever know." Denton asked Tom Gleisner from The Panel: "Have you considered renaming The Panel 'The Bored' because that's how Rob Sitch looked all year?"

The ABC's SeaChange won Most Outstanding Drama Series, while its star, Sigrid Thornton, won the Logie for Most Outstanding Actress in a Series.
Accepting her award, Thornton apologised for the tattered scrap of paper from which she read her thanks. "We shot late last night and I've only got a third of my brain left standing," she said. She said she was proud to be nominated for the award for her part as Laura, which she described as "a gem of a role".

Perhaps the most interesting Logie award went to Channel Nine's Hey, Hey It's Saturday, which won the most popular comedy - light entertainment program. Hey, Hey was cancelled last year because of poor ratings outside Melbourne.

Accepting the show's 12th and final award, host Daryl Somers, said it was the most appreciated.
"I don't think it's until you finish a show like Hey Hey It's Saturday that you realise how privileged you were to have a 28-year run with the one show and I really appreciate it," Somers said.

A male anti-nuclear protester who interrupted television celebrities arriving at the red carpeted entrance at Crown was a knock out in a blue knee-length dress. But the man didn't have time to show off his fashion choice as Crown's security bundled the small group of protesters out with such force a Channel Seven sound recordist was pushed into the window of an adjacent shop. The protesters carried banners including "Howard wins Glowgie for nuclear madness", they shouted "Nuclear free future!" The sound recordist, Chris Martin, claimed security had pushed him after "it got a bit heated". "We were all just doing our job. Their reaction didn't help."
A spokesman for Crown casino, Gary O'Neil, last night said Crown has apologised to Mr Martin. "It was an unfortunate incident and it was regrettable. They were security people trying to do their job." It was not known last night whether charges would be laid against the protesters. - WITH AAP

Logies '99 !

Congratulations to all Logie winners, but especially to Blue Heeler's Lisa McCune and Martin Sacks !
Lisa won, not only the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress, but also the Golden Logie for Most Popular Personality ! This was the third Golden Logie in a row for Lisa.
Martin Sacks won Silver for Most Popular Actor (second time in a row) and Blue Heelers won Most Popular Program.
For the first time in history (41 years) the Logie for Most Outstanding Actor was won by 2 actors: Tony Martin (Wildside) and David Wenham (Seachange).
Most Outstanding Drama Series was Seachange, and Most Outstanding Actress was Rachael Blake (Wildside). Most Popular New Talents: Kimberley Cooper (Home and Away) and Daniel MacPherson (Neighbours).

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