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LISA McCune, the 26-year-old star of the high-rating Blue Heelers country
police drama, stands between A Current Affair host Ray Martin and his fifth
straight Gold Logie.
Martin, 51, has won 25 Logies and has won the Gold Logie five times.
McCune won the Silver Logie for most popular actress last year and won the
1995 award for most popular new talent.
As well as being nominated for a Gold Logie, she has been nominated in the
silver category. If she doesn't take the top honour, McCune is a shoo-in for the
silver.
If she does win the gold, the silver for most popular actress will be a
battle between Rebecca Gibney of Halifax fp fame and Home And Away starlets Isla
Fisher, Tempany Deckert and Melissa George. Given that George has all but
disappeared since leaving the show last year, pundits are tipping Gibney or
magazine favourite Fisher for the award.
Blue Heelers' John Wood is a favourite for the most popular actor Silver
Logie. A multiLogie winner, he is competing against a tough field of co-star
Sacks, Water Rats' Colin Friels, Home And Away's Nic Testoni and Big Sky's Gary
Sweet.
As with every awards ceremony, there is a "dark horse". This year, that is
Kerri-Anne Kennerley, whose star was fading until Channel 9 discovered that she
and Midday were a match made in ratings heaven.
KAK has been nominated in three categories: the Gold Logie, most popular
light entertainment personality and most popular light entertainment program for
her show. Even employees at rival networks believe she will not go home
emptyhanded.
There was a minor upset last year when vote counters - who sift through the
hundreds of thousands of voting coupons sent in by TV Week readers - noted that
a couple of hundred had been posted from the same post office in Sydney.
They all favoured one young woman with a then fledgling TV career. The
executive producer of her show happened to live very close to the above post
office. All the forms were filed in the rubbish bin.
There is little hard evidence of rigging but Logies veterans recall with
minor embarrassment the incident in 1988 when Jason Donovan marched up to the
stage to collect his gong while the band played the theme from The Flying
Doctors. Talk at the time was that Flying Doctors star Peter O'Brien won more
votes but the award went to Donovan to go with Kylie Minogue's Gold Logie.
There was another uproar in 1986 when Chris Masters was voted reporter of the
year by a panel of judges but the award went to Ian Leslie because the ABC had
not officially nominated the Four Corners reporter after a Logies boycott.
In the mid-70s, a Melbourne morning program host polled more votes for the
Gold Logie than every other contender combined. Smelling a rat, TV Week bosses
scratched her name off their list.
And in the 1960s, a popular daytime compere who failed to win a Logie and
boycotted the event was wooed back with the creation of a special new category
of Logie for him.
No doubt the conveniences of Melbourne's Crown Casino, where the event is
being held, will be rife with rumour before the curtains are drawn on the
ceremony, which airs tonight on Channel 9 at 8.30pm.
* For more on the Logies, turn to today's TV Now magazine for Logies Golden
Gaffes.
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