AUSTRALIAN television veteran Georgie Parker ended Lisa McCune's Logies reign overnight, taking out the prestigious Gold and Silver awards.
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McCune, who won the Gold Logie the previous four years, appeared only on television briefly last year following the death of her beloved Blue Heelers' character Maggie Doyle.
Parker, the star of Channel 7's hospital drama All Saints, also won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress while the series won the Silver Logie for Most Popular program.
THE popular ABC series SeaChange cleaned up at the 43rd annual TV Week Logie Awards overnight.
SeaChange won awards for Most Outstanding Series, Best Actor (John Howard), Best Actress (Kerry Armstrong) but could not help actress Sigrid Thornton to snare the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality.
The other big winner of the night was Jamie Durie of the Nine Network's lifestyle program Backyard Blitz, who beat off three stars from Seven's long-running soap Home & Away to pick up the Most Popular New Talent - Male.
"It's been an amazing year for me and the team," Durie said.
Jamie Durie returned to the winner's stage again with his teammates when their program Backyard Blitz picked up the award for Most Popular Lifestyle Program.
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The year-old program beat out veteran shows Better Homes and Gardens, Changing Rooms and Harry's Practice.
Martin Sacks won his fifth consecutive Silver Logie for his role as Detective PJ Hasham in the Channel 7 drama Blue Heelers.
Sacks thanked his fellow nominees, especially co-star John Wood and former co-star Martin McInnes who was nominated for his role on SeaChange.
"I'd like to thank the viewers once again for supporting our show so loyally ... I'm very lucky I've got a job I love," Sacks said.
Last year's winner in the Most Outstanding Children's Program, Channel Nine's Hi-5, tied this year with the ABC program Round the Twist for the Logie.
Channel 10's program The Panel picked up the Logie for the Most Popular Light Entertainment Program.
One of the show's stars, Tom Gleisner, thanked the program's production staff.
" ... the rest of us just come along and have a good time having a yack on a Wednesday night. It's great that people are just happy to tune in and go with us. Thank you very much."
Home & Away had its revenge when starlet Tammin Sursok took out the female category of the Most Popular New Talent Logie.
Sursok, who initially went to the wrong podium to collect her award from Roy and HG, thanked her family, friends and Home and Away producers.
"... and Mrs Cooper, my maths teacher, who said one day if I ever get up here to thank her. Well a promise is a promise."
Plunging necklines, diamantes and faux fur were the fashion favourites at last night's 43rd Logies Awards.
There was not a pastel in sight with the red carpet parade leading into Melbourne's Crown Casino dominated by figure-hugging frocks in gold, bronze, silver, white and black.
Most popular actress nominee Home & Away star Rebecca Cartwright stood out in a black gown covered with hundreds of glittering diamantes. Pregnant Channel 9 Water Rats star Dee Smart showed off her belly in a tight black velvet gown with a low, low neckline.
A big fashion winner was former Neighbours star Brooke Satchwell who, escorted by Bert Newton's son Mathew, looked fabulous in a backless red satin ensemble covered in Indian-style beading.
Fabricated Popstars group Bardot took a New York gangster theme, variously wearing fishnet stockings, cocktail style corset dresses and black suits.
Sadly the Popstars newcomers Scandal'us were the biggest fashion losers with various style of army combat gear. Wheel of Fortune hostess Sophie Falkiner did not fare much better. In a tight gold dress, she looked like she had stepped straight out of a James Bond movie.
And Channel 10 Live This hostess Leah McLeod was overexposed in a black suit with nothing underneath.
Gold Logie favourite Georgie Parker was demure in purple satin with a diamante neckline.
She said she felt lucky to be nominated but was not expecting to win.
"I don't have a speech prepared," she said. Her rival for the Gold, Lisa McCune, who is in the late stages of pregnancy, was not attending tonight's ceremony.
Kate Fischer in a black and white geometric dress arrived with Paul McDermott and Mikey Robbins.
Latino star Ricky Martin caused a sensation with the screaming fans when he emerged in a knee length black suit jacket, with open necked black shirt.
Martin posed for photographs but did not venture to sign autographs for the hundreds of fans who had waited several hours in the pouring rain.
The ABC's The Games - a satire of the organisation of the Sydney Olympic Games - has won the Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy Program. The Games stars - John Clarke, Bryan Dawe and Gina Riley and co-writer Ross Stevenson - did not attend the award program.
It was reported last week that Clarke, Dawe and Riley would boycott the awards because of a contract dispute Riley was having with the ABC.
The Logie was accepted by Nicholas Bell, who had a recurring role in the show.
The Nine Network has picked up the Logie for Most Outstanding News Coverage for its reporting of the World Economic Forum-S11 protests outside Melbourne's Crown Casino last September.
ABC journalist Paul Lockyer has won the Logie for Most Outstanding News Reporter. Mike Willesee and his son Michael Willesee junior presented Lockyer with his award. It is the first time the Logie is being presented in the category since 1986.
The Silver Logie for the Most Popular Actress went to All Saints star Georgie Parker. It was her fifth Logie, including four Silver Logies.
She beat Home and Away's Rebecca Cartwright, Sigrid Thornton for SeaChange and Rebecca Gibney for Halifax FP. "The people who have voted - well what can I say, you've made my night," Parker said.
All Saints won the Silver Logie - its first award - for Most Popular Program. The Channel 7 hospital drama beat multiple Silver Logies winner Blue Heelers, Home and Away and SeaChange in the category.
The Nine Network's A Current Affair has won its 10th Logie for Most Popular Public Affairs Program.
The Mole, which last week finished its second series, won the Logie for the Most Popular Reality Program. It was up against Channel 7 stablemate, the phenomenon Popstars, as well as the Nine Network programs, Animal Hospital and RPA.
The SBS documentary A Death in the Family won the Logie for Most Outstanding Documentary/Documentary Series.
Four Corners report Fixing Cricket - which shook up world cricket - won the Logie for Most Outstanding Special Report in a Public Affairs Program. The Logies Ceremony tonight also honoured Four Corners for its 40th anniversary in a special segment.
Roy and HG's extremely popular and irreverent show The Dream - which ran only during the Sydney Olympics last September - won the Logie for the Most Popular Sports Program. "It's a very sad state of affairs when the most popular sports program in the Olympic year is a load of rubbish," Roy Slaven said in accepting the award. "But it was great rubbish to do and I do apologise to all concerned for inflicting insomnia on people."
The Logie for the Most Outstanding Sport Coverage went to Channel 7 for the Games of the XXVII Olympiad held in Sydney last September. The award was presented by Olympic hero Kieren Perkins and cricket star Brett Lee.
John Howard - the actor, not the Prime Minister - won the Logie for Most Outstanding Actor in a series. Howard won his accolade for his performance as the dodgy real estate agent Bob Jelly in the quirky ABC show, SeaChange. He beat his co-star William McInnes, Water Rats star Steve Bisley and Geoff Morrell for his role in another ABC production, Grass Roots. Howard was not at the Melbourne's Crown Casino, but accepted the award via satellite in Sydney. "What can I say thank you very much. What a surprise," Howard said. "I'm glad lots of people liked the show."
Howard's on-screen wife Kerry Armstrong has won her first Logie for Most Outstanding Actress in a series for her portrayal of the dippy Heather Jelly. She beat her popular co-star Sigrid Thornton as well as Silver Logie winner Georgie Parker and Parker's All Saints co-star Libby Tanner.
Legendary actress Ruth Cracknell was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame - the first woman to be so honoured.
Although a veteran of Australian radio, television, stage and film, her most famous role is that of Maggie Bear in the long-running ABC comedy Mother and Son.
Her on-screen son, Gary McDonald, presented Cracknell with her Hall of Fame award.
The star-studded audience awarded her a standing ovation as she walked onto the stage.
"I suppose one thing, looking back over all those years, one thing I do have is longevity, I've been at it quite a long time," she said.
"But looking back all of those years, most of my life has been spent in theatre. So if I have been asked to join this illustrious Hall of Fame there really is only one reason I think."
Cracknell put down her award to her celebrated Mother and Son role.
"I'm incredibly proud, and very, very happy and very, very surprised."
The Most Outstanding Miniseries-Telemovie has gone to Halifax FP - A Person of Interest. The telemovie series stars Rebecca Gibney as a forensic psychiatrist and screens on the Nine Network.
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