It’s 3:38am and we’ve just finished sorting then counting the last 24 hours of nominations and are now putting the top nominees into our survey software for the proper vote which will be starting later this morning.

Now that all the hard work has done we can say that there is one category we can already declare a winner in and it’s the award for the Community TV Show You Want on Free-to-Air TV. In horse racing parlance the show which won, won only after every other runner was scratched from the race. Out of the 5000+ nominations for the 2008 Fuglies only 35 were entered for this category and only one show received more than two votes. Still, the congratulations go to a show which used to be on Melbourne’s Channel 31, Fishcam.

Yes, a show that is no longer even on community telly which was just the images captured by a camera pointed at a fish tank has been given the gong. I’m quite sure commercial network executives will be knocking on the producer’s door later today now that it has been recognised at The Fuglies. It will probably be brought out of hiatus and be back onto our screens within the week. Well done voters. You have again proved that your superior televisual judgement combined with online democracy is a wonderful mix.

Because we took the extra time to get started we have decided to extend nominations until midnight tonight. Voting will start before 9am Wednesday.

Time left to nominate:

You can now submit your nominations in the 2008 TV Fugly Awards.

Go to: http://www.fugly.com.au/vote to enter your choices for the various awards.

Because bookmakers have been asking when everything is happening, we thought it would be best to do some work by looking at a calendar then marking out the dates here for everyone not just those interested in making some filthy luca.

2008 TV Fugly Awards

April 14th
Call for nominations in categories the Logies keep on forgetting to include.

April 23rd
Vote on the nominees whom the brilliant minds of our voters have determined worthy of recognition in our special way.

May 2nd
Winners announced at a glamorous ceremony.

We’re quite sure voters and gamblers alike will be adding these dates to their diaries and online to do list applications.

The Logies have gone to all this effort of appearing to look legitimate/tolerable with things like allowing anyone to vote, announcing the ceremony will be sans host and putting up a whole group of ABC nominees in the running for a gong.

So we guess people are now wondering how The Fuglies will up our game to remain the new hotness in the Australian Television Awards Industry. Well, three days out and we the organisers are not really sure. We think our usual half arsed effort of creating some new categories will be enough.

As well as our usual enthusiastic vitriol aimed at bad shows and stars we will have an award for ‘TV Network Frenemies’, ‘Australia’s Best TV Viewer’ and ‘Community TV Show You Want on Free-to-Air TV’.

If anyone else has any better ideas (you’d have to be lazier and more mediocre than us for them to be much worse than these) then comment below or email your suggestions to awards [at] fugly.com.au and they will most likely be included as a category for nominations in 2008.