Irwin, 20, is the youngest gold nominee ever and said it made him think of his father, Steve Irwin, who was posthumously inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in 2007 after he was killed by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef.
“When we heard the news, I talked to my mum about it first,” said Irwin, who co-hosts I’m a Celebrity … Get Me out of Here! “And you expect a crazy reaction, like confetti to go off, but mum just sat down and she was actually kind of emotional and she just said, ‘I can’t imagine how proud your dad would be.’ And it’s something that really hit home for me and I hope somewhere up there he’s looking down and I can make him proud.”
Irwin’s Celebrity co-host, Julia Morris, said she was proud of her third Gold Logie nomination, but that women were “still in the minority”, as four of the nominees are men, and three are women.
Television veteran Emdur said the Gold Logie nod made him feel nervous. It is his first Logie nomination in a 40-year television career. “It’s been a long career, a lot of stuff-ups,” he said. “The Morning Show [on Seven] has been No.1 for 17 years and The Chase is going really well. And at this stage of my life, it’s quite strange to be enjoying a couple of great shows at the same time.”
Boy Swallows Universe acting nominees Lee Tiger Halley (left) Bryan Brown and Felix Cameron.
Netflix’s Boy Swallows Universe was the most successful individual show, with eight best nominations (of the streamer’s total 11), plus two Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent nods for its young stars Felix Cameron and Lee Tiger Halley.
Based on Trent Dalton’s 2018 semi-autobiographical novel, the seven-part drama was nominated for best miniseries or telemovie, best actor for Cameron and Simon Baker, best actress for Phoebe Tonkin, best supporting actor for Halley, Bryan Brown and Travis Fimmel and best supporting actress for Sophie Wilde.
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The ABC landed multiple nods in 17 out of the 20 “best” categories, including best drama for The Newsreader and Total Control, best scripted comedy for Utopia, Mother and Son and In Limbo, as well as four comedy entertainment nominations (Gruen, Hard Quiz, The Yearly with Charlie Pickering and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering) and five best children’s program nominations (Beep and Mort, Bluey, Gardening Australia Junior, Ginger and the Vegesaurs and Play School).
The revamp of categories for the 64th TV Week Logie Awards combines the previous most popular and most outstanding categories into one “best” category.
Instead of separate public and industry votes, the winners of the “best” awards will be decided by a combined score comprising a judging panel (30 per cent), audience data (20 per cent) and public votes (50 per cent). The three remaining “popular” awards – the Gold Logie, the most popular presenter and most popular new talent – will still be public-only votes.
Seven scored 18 nominations, Nine* received 15, Network Ten, Amazon’s Prime Video and Stan* each received eight, SBS five, Binge and Disney+ three each, and Paramount+ one.
Mother and Son’s Denise Scott is nominated for best lead actress in a comedy category. She had been undergoing treatment for breast cancer since she began filming the ABC’s reboot of the classic. Last month, Scott announced she had had her last round of chemotherapy, ending 17 months of treatment.
Scott’s co-star Matt Okine also received a best-comedy-actor nod, while popular government satire Utopia picked up three comedy acting nominations, with Rob Sitch for best actor, and Celia Pacquola and Kitty Flanagan for best actress.
Matt Okine and Denise Scott were nominated in the best actor and actress comedy categories for the ABC’s Mother and Son.
Disney’s first venture into local scripted drama, The Clearing, only scored two nominations including best supporting actor for Guy Pearce. Amazon Prime Video has more success with its two local productions: Tasmanian murder-mystery comedy Deadloch and domestic and child abuse drama The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
Madeleine Sami (left) and Kate Box were nominated for best actress comedy for their roles in the Tasmanian murder mystery comedy Deadloch.
The 64th TV Week Logie Awards will be held at the Star Sydney on August 18 and hosted by Sam Pang. Voting is now open, with voting for the “best” awards closing at 7pm on August 17. Voting for the most popular presenter and most popular new talent awards closes at 7.30pm on August 18, while voting for the Gold Logie closes at 10.30pm. The awards will be broadcast on Seven and 7Plus.
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