Nominees announced for TV WEEK Logie Awards

Press release from The Lantern Group

Karl Stefanovic, Asher Keddie, Jessica Marais and Chrissie Swan have made it a strong year for first-time Gold Logie nominees, as all will be vying for TV's most prestigious award at the 2011 TV WEEK Logie Awards. Joining them are Rebecca Gibney and Adam Hills, both of whom have previously been up for the honour.

The full list of nominees was announced at Quay earlier today in a gathering of some of television's most recognisable faces, including Hugh Sheridan, Firass Dirani, Adam Hills, Rebecca Gibney and Shaun Micallef.

As voted by TV WEEK readers and the Australian public, Packed To The Rafters has been nominated for 11 awards in the Most Popular categories, including Most Popular Actor/Actress Silver Logie nods for Erik Thomson, Hugh Sheridan, Michael Caton, Zoe Ventoura, Gibney and Marais and Most Popular Drama Series. Offspring has been nominated for five awards, including Silver Logies for Most Popular Actor and Actress for Don Hany (a joint nomination for his role in Showcase's Tangle) and Keddie respectively.

Chrissie Swan and The Circle have received four nominations, three of which are individual nominations for Swan, including Most Popular New Female Talent. In this category Swan will be battling it out with fellow ex-reality star nominees Julie Goodwin (Home Cooked! With Julie
Goodwin) and Poh Ling Yeow (Poh's Kitchen). Stefanovic, Swan and Hills are also up against two of TV's 'funny men', veteran Shaun Micallef and comedian Hamish Blake for the Silver Logie for Most Popular Presenter.

"I'm very pleased to announce that for the first time Nine Entertainment Co will donate its share of the profit from all Gold Logie votes received to the Australian Red Cross, a deserving charity which offers practical assistance and support in times of conflict or natural disaster. So I'd encourage people to start voting for their favourite Gold candidate now!" TV WEEK Editor Emma Nolan said.

Within the Most Outstanding category nominations, as voted by TV industry peers, Richard Roxburgh received two nominations for the TV WEEK Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actor, one for his role in Hawke and one for the ABC1 series Rake. Both shows were also granted nods for the Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie. Jason Gann (Wilfred), Thomson and Sheridan will go head-tohead with Roxburgh (and Roxburgh) for the Silver Logie, making it two acting nominations for the Packed to the Rafters stars this year.

While it was a strong showing by the big three networks, Sisters Of War (ABC1) stars Sarah Snook and Claire van der Boom received nominations for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent and the Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress respectively and the series is nominated for the Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie. Justine Clarke from Showcase's Tangle is up against van der Boom for the Silver Logie and the category is rounded out with Offspring's Asher Keddie (her second nomination for acting this year) and Kat Stewart along with Catherine McClements for Rush.

ABC1 shows Yes We Canberra! and Spicks And Specks along with the SBS-produced Luke Nguyen's Vietnam will compete with Network Ten's Hamish & Andy's Caravan of Courage: Great Britain & Ireland and Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation for Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program. The Nine Network's Hi-5 takes on three ABC3 shows (Dance Academy, Dead Gorgeous and Prank Patrol) and Nickelodeon's Camp Orange: Castle Mountain for Most Outstanding Children's Program.

Along with all nominees announced today TV WEEK revealed two of the highly anticipated acts that will be performing on the big night. London born and bred Jessie J is the newest pop sensation on the verge of stardom in the UK and she is about to hit Australian shores for the first time. Touted
as "The best singer in the world right now" by Justin Timberlake she is currently sitting at #2 on both the ARIA and Itunes Charts with her single 'Price Tag'. After suffering a stroke at age 18, she turned to songwriting. She co-wrote 'Party in the USA' for Miley Cyrus, as well as writing for
Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown and Christina Aguilera. With a string of awards under her belt already, the now 23 year old Jessie J is well on her way to worldwide success. Her performance at the Logies will be her first TV performance in Australia.

Also announced as performing on the night is Los Angeles quintet Maroon 5. Having released two multi-platinum studio albums, scored a string of hit singles, won three Grammy Awards, and sold 15 million albums around the world they are sure to be a crowd pleaser on the night. Maroon 5 are back in Australia in May to perform live tracks from their third-studio album, entitled Hands All Over, which debuted at #2 on the US Billboard chart and in the top 10 in the ARIA album chart. The popular American band, led by affable front man and talented lead vocalist Adam Levine, will be performing the brand new single 'Never Gonna Leave This Bed' for Australian audiences for the first time on the night of the TV Week Logies.

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