Hamish Blake wins gold at 2022 Logie Awards | Australian television

Hamish Blake took the Gold Logie on the 62nd annual tv awards on the Gold Coast on Sunday evening, with the present he hosts, Lego Masters Australia, amassing an additional two awards. Blake additionally received the newly named Bert Newton award for hottest presenter, an award he received beforehand in 2012, whereas the Channel 9 present, now in its fourth season, received excellent leisure or comedy program.

“In the event you’re nonetheless watching this you’re an insomniac,” stated Blake as he collected the Gold Logie, with what proved the final of a working collection of jokes all through the evening concerning the televised ceremony’s four-hour period.

Blake beat fellow nominees comic Julia Morris, At present host Karl Stefanovic, Masterchef presenter Melissa Leong, Residence and Away veteran actor Ray Meagher, The Voice Australia presenter Sonia Kruger, and ABC quizmaster Tom Gleeson, who received the award in 2019.

The ABC dominated the peer-judged awards, with The Newsreader successful excellent drama collection and Anna Torv successful excellent actress for her lead efficiency within the Nineteen Eighties newsroom drama. Excellent actor went to Richard Roxburgh for his position within the ABC miniseries Fires, which additionally received excellent miniseries or telemovie. Neither actor was current on the Star Gold Coast venue to simply accept their awards.

Former AFL participant turned ABC Information Breakfast journalist Tony Armstrong received the Graham Kennedy award for hottest new expertise and the ABC’s worldwide cartoon hit Bluey received excellent youngsters’s tv program.

The excellent supporting actor went to Colin Friels for his position within the ABC drama collection Wakefield. ABC expertise additionally received hottest actress and hottest actor, by Kitty Flanagan for the comedy Fisk, and Man Pearce for the crime drama Jack Irish.

Channel 10’s The Mission beat stalwarts 4 Corners and Sixty Minutes to take out most excellent information protection or public affairs report, for Lisa Wilkinson’s Brittany Higgins interview – which the presenter described as “a very powerful work I’ve ever achieved”

Wilkinson stated the Logie belonged: “to a lady who impressed greater than 100,000 equally pissed-off, exhausted, fierce men and women to take to the streets proper throughout this nation to roar in numbers too large to disregard.”

Excellent sports activities protection went to Channel Seven for its protection of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, whereas its longstanding sports activities commentator, Bruce McAvaney, who has lined each summer season Olympics since Moscow in 1980, was inducted into the Logies’ Corridor of Fame.

A particular tribute was additionally paid to entertainer Bert Newton, who died in October 2021.

The nationwide Indigenous tv community NITV recorded its first Logie, for the SBS co-produced documentary Incarceration Nation.

The viewer-voted hottest classes have been received by Seven’s Residence and Away for hottest drama, The Mission for present affairs, and Foxtel/10’s Gogglebox for leisure tv.

9’s Journey Guides and Community 10’s Masterchef and Have You Been Paying Consideration? received the preferred way of life, actuality and comedy classes respectively.