On Friday the 28th of November at 8:30pm the Nine Network will air a two-hour special hosted by Denise Drysdale.
This special presentation will take a walk down memory lane and includes priceless moments of our favourite television personalities collecting awards, their fashion faux pas and speech blunders. There are also many moving, emotional and hilarious moments.
40 Years Of TV Week Logie Awards pays tribute to the wonderful and colourful history of these awards. It includes footage of a young and nervous Garry Sweet collecting his first Logie and Bert Newton's famous - and almost last - words "I like the boy" to Mohammed Ali.
Viewers will get a chance to see their favourites and the past greats of Australian television. They will see the best and worst speeches; Dame Edna Everage appearances and the array of international guests who have made the trek down under.
Hosted by everyone's favourite, Denise Drysdale, she will bring her own brand of humour to the presentation as she visits each of the Logie Award venues and recounts the stories, gossip, high jinx and behind the scenes dramas of years gone by.
The executive producer is Peter Wynn who produced his first Logie Awards telecast in 1968. He is currently Nine Network's Executive Producer of Special Projects and has put many specials to air over the years.
What they don't tell us in the publicity releases is that the real work of researching all of the footage is probably being done by the best comedy writer in Australian television, Mike McColl Jones. Mike has had the dubious honour of being the head comedy writer for Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton and Don Lane. Maybe one day we'll get to see Mike on camera. Now wouldn't that be something.
