The 2008 Fugly Awards

The winners of the seventh annual Fugly Awards were announced today at a glittering three-minute ceremony held on the brown carpet outside Melbourne's Crown Casino complex.

The Fugly Awards, held in the lead-up to the TV Week Logie Awards, recognise the good, the bad, and the (f)ugly of Australian television - but while the Logies come with big budgets, big names and big frocks, the Fuglies are a much smaller affair with a few milk crates, some product placement from the award's new sponsor Another Bloody Water, and some fold-out chairs reserved for the invited guests.

Fugly creator Anthony Dever made the trip from Brisbane to Melbourne to hand out the prestigious awards which, curiously, none of the winners were on hand to accept - even the 'good' ones.

A full list of winners and runners up in this year's Fugly Awards appear on their website - but just quickly, here are the big winners of today's awards:

 

 

More on today's Fugly presentation at TV Tonight

It must be awards season...

The TV Week Logie Awards are now just a week away (has everyone made their last-minute vote for the 'Race for Gold'?).

The Fugly Awards are also down to the last week of voting while they figure out how they're going to present them this Friday 2 May.

Last week saw pay-TV's annual awards, The ASTRAs, handed out to their favourite shows and presenters, and the MTV Australia Awards did their bit for the music industry with a few TV awards thrown in.

And from tonight, Sunday, it's the turn of the community TV sector to present its annual accolades with the Antenna Awards.

This year's Antennas were actually handed out in a presentation last Thursday night in Melbourne, but the event is being broadcast on the various Channel 31's at various times from tonight.

Melbourne: C31 (pictured), Tonight/Sunday 27 April, 7.30pm

Perth: Access 31, Tonight/Sunday 27 April, 7.30pm

Brisbane: 31, Sunday 4 May, 7.30pm

Sydney: TVS, Sunday 4 May, 7.30pm

Nominations for the Antennas are submitted from all over Australia.  The winners are decided by an appointed panel of judges in the following categories:

Best Indigenous Program
Best News or Current Affair Program
Best Camera Work
Best Editing
Best Program that supports New and Emerging Communties
Best Music Program
Best Theme Music Composition
Best Young Persons Program
Best Live or Outside Broadcast
Best Lifestyle Program
Best Comedy Program
Best Interview Show
Best Sound
Best Sports Program
Best Special Presentation
Best Arts Program
Best CALD Program
Best Female Presenter
Best Male Presenter
Best Director
Producer of the Year
Best Program

It's Fugly time again!

Hollywood has the Razzies, and for the past seven years Australian TV has had its own anti-awards event, the Fugly Awards - and this year is no exception.

Voting is now open for the 2008 Fugly Awards - giving Australians a chance to vote in categories that perhaps the TV Week Logie Awards may have overlooked, such as the 'Eddie' for most over-exposed TV  personality (Bert Newton was last year's winner), or most spankable female personality (previous winners have included Myf Warhurst, Sami Lukis and Sandra Sully, pictured)

Apart from awarding Australia's worst TV celebrities and TV show, among other categories, there is a chance to acknowledge those that don't always grace the cover of TV Week but do us just as proud.  Previous winners for most under acknowledged TV personality have included Adam Hills, Andrew Denton and Deborah Mailman.

And this year the public are also asked to nominate themselves for Australia's best TV viewer.

Voting closes 21 April and the winners of the 2008 Fugly Awards will be announced on 2 May.

Go to the site at http://www.fugly.com.au