The 2008 TV Fugly Awards will be starting on on April 11.

It sure to be the worst awards ever.

…would someone besmirch the character of Australia’s best showbiz reporter?

With the whole writers strike thing still happening in the the US the Golden Globe awards have decided to scale back their event.

Though it seems they’re taking ideas from us, The Fuglies…

…there will be no red carpet and no televised ceremony or banquet on the night — just a star-less, one-hour press conference.
source The Age

While about 55 minutes too long I can say that they’ll feel better for cutting out the fat. Besides being way better for the environment with less carbon emissions now they probably won’t have to put up with with Richard Wilkins doing his thing on the red carpet. Yay for Australian relations with the US entertainment industry!

Just heard this bit of scooped Logies gossip while listening to Robbie Buck’s Top Shelf Radio on Triple J this afternoon. Unfortunately it isn’t some salacious info about which Home and Away star snorted bolivian marching powder off Grant Denyer’s chest at the after-party or who was caught in a compromising position in the toilets with Jeanie Little.

Chris Taylor from The Chaser’s War on Everything revealed that he and Craig Reucassel, both invited guests and 2007 TV Week Logie Award nominees, were unceremoniously ejected for attempting to film a sketch.

Apparently, about twenty seconds into doing a stunt, Chris and Craig were forcefully restrained then frogmarched out of the Crown Palladium Ballroom by the much talked about hired muscle who had who been “pricks” all night after being posted at the Chaser’s table to keep watch on them.

After a few phone calls, Nine CEO Eddie McGuire would only allow them back inside for the announcement of the category they were in the running to win before they would be removed again. Taylor chose to go back inside but Reucassel decided to leave and return to their hotel room.

How terrific a story is that? In what way could The Chaser actually ruin the event other than adding a bit of fun to what was while professional and smooth running, a pretty dull affair. Especially when the brilliance of Joan Rivers and The Chaser’s boneheading from 2006 gave us hope that there could be some actual entertainment on Logies night. Expectations were high.

This entire fiasco (yep, fiasco) reminded us of our idea which is a sure fire way to boost ratings and revenues for the Logies telecast.

The CC TV Logie Awards - fun for the whole Nine family.

Channel Nine could run a separate pay-per-view simulcast on Nine Digital with footage from all the Closed Circuit TV cameras. Being a casino there’ll be no additional production costs just switch the feeds to the digital channel and watch the money flow.

Start it at 6pm when attendees start to make their way down from their hotel rooms to do the red carpet gauntlet right to when the after-parties finish at 6am. Then as a cross-promotion with Today do a highlights package with awards based on what occurred on the CC TV footage during the night. Two television industry awards for price of one.

From watching the Sunrise and Today wraps this morning as well as listening to most radio shows talking about the Logies today - all anyone is really interested in is the behind the scenes goss. This way Channel Nine would give people what they want, it doesn’t affect the real awards and they’d make serious bank.

It just makes sense. Come on, let’s make it happen. Does anyone know Eddie’s phone number?

Nobody believes us when we say we have a ceremony on the footpath outside Crown Casino.

This year we were smart enough to take a camera.

While standing alone on our brand spanking new $10 roll of brown carpet waiting to hand out the certificates (no one attended, again) it kind of freaked passers-by out. We had thoughts of maybe recording video interviews with a few but none were willing to stop and be part of such a culturally significant event.

We’re uploading the photos from a net cafe now and they’ll be online soon.

Can you feel the glamour?

$10. Bargain.

What are they doing here? I thought Channel 9 was meant to not like us. Story for ACA on The Fuglies?

A person walking around a CBD with a small roll of brown carpet looks like a weirdo.