TV Week Logies on Channel 7 – The TV WEEK Logie Awards today confirmed Australian television industry titan and cultural and creative pioneer, Brian Walsh, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame next Sunday 30 July at The Star, Sydney.
The TV WEEK Logie Award Hall of Fame honours people and programs that have helped shape the most influential medium of our time and recognises an outstanding contribution to Australian television.
Lost too soon, the prolific and influential Brian Walsh (1955-2023) was a distinguished leader in the Australian television industry with a career spanning more than four decades. Brian is credited for the global success of the iconic series Neighbours and launching the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce.
In 1995, Brian was a key member of the management team that established Australian subscription television with the launch of Foxtel and was the organisation’s cultural heart and soul.
Brian’s talent and unique ability saw him become Foxtel’s creative force for nearly three decades including overseeing all scripted and unscripted commissions for the Foxtel Group including the beloved television series Wentworth, Upright, Deadline Gallipoli, The Kettering Incident, The End and most recently the award-winning and globally distributed series Love Me, Colin from Accounts and The Twelve.
Fittingly, The Twelve is the most nominated drama at this year’s TV Week Logie Awards.
He launched countless channels, hundreds of shows and thousands of careers behind, and in front, of the camera and across his career Brian brought home more than 100 awards for Foxtel.
Brian died on 16 March this year and at the time was serving in the role of Executive Director of Drama at Foxtel Group.
One of Australia’s most formidable songwriters, Amy Shark, will be performing her hit new single, Can I Shower At Yours, next Sunday at the TV WEEK Logie Awards.
Amy has amassed close to 1 billion combined global streams with multiple platinum certified hits including Adore, I Said Hi and Mess Her Up. Amy is also nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent for her role as a judge on Seven’s Australian Idol.
Also confirmed to serve up the bangers at TV’s ultimate night of celebrations are ARIA Award winning electronic party-starters, Peking Duk. With 26 x Platinum accreditations, over half a billion combined streams, and 7 x Top 40 ARIA singles, Peking Duk will perform a medley of some of their greatest hits alongside some exciting surprise guests.
The TV WEEK Logie Awards has also confirmed an all-star roll call of guests and presenters for the evening including Sarah Abo, Dylan Alcott, Hamish Blake, Shaynna Blaze, Brooke Boney, Virginia Gay, Sylvia Jeffreys, Kate Langbroek, Ally Langdon, Flex Mami, Karl Stefanovic, Alison Bell, Rachael Blake, Matt Day, David Wenham, Sam Neill, Michelle Lim Davidson, Shaun Micallef, Tuuli Narkle, Zan Rowe, Leigh Sales, Christie Whelan-Browne, Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer, Coco Jack Gillies, Matt Nable, Pallavi Sharda, Catherine Van-Davies, Bryn Chapman Parish, Chloe Hayden, Ayesha Madon, James Majoos and Thomas Weatherall.
Plus, Waleed Aly, Julie Goodwin, Sarah Harris, Peter Helliar, Dave Hughes, Ed Kavalee, Melissa Leong, Julia Morris, Yael Stone, Chrissie Swan, Luke Arnold, Guillaume Brahimi, Gina Chick, Charlie Albone, Edwina Bartholomew, Rickie-Lee, Ant Middleton, Adam Dovile, Johanna Griggs, Shane Jacobson, David Koch, Ray Meagher, Todd McKenney, Mel McLaughlin, Emily Symons, Claudia Karvan, Kick Gurry, Kween Kong, Danielle Laidley, Erik Thomson, Denise Drysdale, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Rove McManus and Maggie Tabberer.
They will join previously announced guests and presenters Abbie Chatfield, Alan Fletcher, Celeste Barber, Colin Fassnidge, Emma Hamilton, Grant Denyer, Joel Creasey, Kat Stewart, Kyle Sandilands, Kylie Gillies, Larry Emdur, Lincoln Younes, Lynne McGranger, Mark Coles Smith, Marta Dusseldorp, Matt Shirvington, Mick Molloy, Natalie Barr, Osher Günsberg, Poh Ling Yeow, Rodger Corser, Samantha Armytage, Sophie Monk, Stephen Peacocke and Tony Armstrong.
Australia’s #1 total TV network will usher in a new era for TV’s most prestigious and glamorous celebration as the proud new home of the 63rd TV WEEK Logie Awards, with the red-carpet broadcast being hosted by Sonia Kruger and Chris Brown exclusively on Channel 7 and 7plus on Sunday 30 July from 7.00pm, before Sam Pang takes the stage to host the ceremony live from 7.30pm.
The TV WEEK Logie Awards is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
TV Week Logie Awards – Sunday 30 July, 2023 at 7.00pm on Channel 7 and 7plus
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