Fugly Awards

[Munchkin]

Vote for Australia's Worst TV Shows

Categories are...

Worst TV Show
Worst Male TV Personality
Worst Female TV Personality
Most Biased Sporting Commentator
Worst Sporting Coverage
Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Most Spankable Female TV Personality
Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s
Most Sensational Current Affairs Program
Least Talented TV Personality turned POP Star
Australian celebrity you would have preferred to see in the celebrity Big Brother house
Best Personality Who Appears on a Dodgy TV Show
Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Overseas TV Show that you Wish Would Just Disappear

[Rock Angel]

Ya know its actually hard to think of responces!

Worst TV Show :- Crossing Over
Worst Male TV Personality:- Ray Martin
Worst Female TV Personality:- Coleen from Home and Away
Most Biased Sporting Commentator:- Eddie Maguire - thanks spoof Worst Sporting Coverage :- um, Fishomania?
Spunkiest Male TV Personality:- am a bit confused why this one says spunk and the
female says spank. Also these are good ones right? Julian McMahon, Simon Deny
Most Spankable Female TV Personality:- Alyssa Milano, Sarah Michelle Geller
Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s :-Skithouse
Most Sensational Current Affairs Program:- Does Glass House Count?
Least Talented TV Personality turned POP Star:- Hooly Valance
Australian celebrity you would have preferred to see in the celebrity Big Brother
house :- Hmmm, Starts with P and ends in aul McDermott - i'd feel sad for him, but
i'd watch the show!
Best Personality Who Appears on a Dodgy TV Show :- um....
Most Under Acknowledged TV Show :- Guardian, White Collar Blue
Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality:- Peter O'Brien
Most Over Exposed TV Personality :- Eddie Maguire
Overseas TV Show that you Wish Would Just Disappear:- Oprah?

[hellokitty]

Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s :-Skithouse

i'll admit i haven't seen a lot of skithouse but do they do much piss taking of other shows?

i thought that was more comedy incs territory?

not havin' a go just wonderin' :0)

[Spoofy]

Originally Posted by Rock Angel

Ya know its actually hard to think of responces!

Most Biased Sporting Commentator:- The only sport i really watch it tennis so i dont
realy have an opinion

you said his name yourself...... EDDIE MAGUIRE!!!!! is definitely the most biased commentator....

[Rock Angel]

Originally Posted by hellokitty

i'll admit i haven't seen a lot of skithouse but do they do much piss taking of other shows?

i thought that was more comedy incs territory?

not havin' a go just wonderin' :0)

No, you're right, but fucked if i'm putting Comedy Inc as best anything!

[Rock Angel]

Originally Posted by Spoofy

you said his name yourself...... EDDIE MAGUIRE!!!!! is definitely the most biased commentator....

Ya know - i didnt even know he commentated. But sure - him! He shits me!

[hellokitty]

fair enough rock angel

[Spoofy]

Originally Posted by Rock Angel

Ya know - i didnt even know he commentated. But sure - him! He shits me!

Yeah he commentators for the footy somoe times.....

[zinja]

Originally Posted by Spoofy

Yeah he commentators for the footy somoe times.....

so he owns Collingwood FC, and is also the President...
And he also works for Channel Nine, which is also the same network that airs the footy, and he commentates on that network and for collingwood games... that's not biased!!

[Munchkin]

and the winners are...

Worst TV Show
It seems that Australian viewers might be a little tired of home/garden renovation shows. Channel Seven's Ground Force was awarded the dishonorable achievement of being the Worst TV Show in the last 12 months.

23% Groundforce (7)
19% Meet my Folks (7)
18% Comedy Inc (9)
10% Home and Away (7)
9% Big Brother (10)


Please Note: 21% of votes for this category were spread across another 60 television shows.



Worst Male TV Personality
Considering he didn't feature in the top fifty nominees of last year's event, Steve Liebman was shock winner of the certificate for Worst Male TV Personality. Our reasoning is that the our voters disliked him fronting the government's recent anti-terrorism advertising campaign.

21% Steve Liebman (Today Show, 9)
18% Eddie Maguire (Footy Show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 9)
13% Ray Martin (A Current Affair, 9)
12% Richard Wilkins (Today Show, 9)
5% Mike Monroe (This is your Life, 9)


Please Note: 31% of votes for this category were spread across another 84 male television personalities.



Worst Female TV Personality
Back on the little box in a show originally developed by Channel Nine for Bert Newton, Kerri-Anne Kennerly won the gong for being Australia's Worst Female TV Personality in 2003.

17% Kerri-Anne Kennerly (Mornings With Kerri-Anne, 9)
12% Noni Hazelhurst
11% Gretel Killeen (Big Brother, 10)
8% Jeanie Little (Beauty and the Beast, Foxtel)
6% Deborah Hutton (Location, Location, 9)


Please Note: 46% of votes for this category were spread across another 103 female television personalities.



Most Biased Sporting Commentator
Collingwood Football Club President and Channel Nine AFL Commentator Eddie Maguire clearly edged out last year's Most Biased Sporting Commentator Phil Gould for the 2003 award.

43% Eddie Maguire (AFL Commentator, 9)
13% Phil Gould (NRL Commentator, 9)
11% Mark Taylor (Cricket Commentator, 9)
6% Gordon Bray (Rugby Commentator, 7)
4% Peter Sterling (NRL Commentator, 9)


Please Note: 23% of votes for this category were spread across another 22 sporting commentators.



Worst Sporting Coverage
Female voters and sports fans in general were obviously dissatisfied with the ABC's coverage of Netball.

20% Netball (ABC)
16% NSL Soccer (7)
15% NBL Basketball (Foxtel)
11% AFL (9/10)
10% Super 12 Rugby (7)


Please Note: 28% of votes for this category were spread across another 23 sports.



Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Ex-pat Aussie Simon Baker edged out last year's winner Jamie Durie to be crowned Australia's Spunkiest Male TV Personality for 2003.

31% Simon Baker (The Guardian, 10)
22% Jamie Durie (Backyard Blitz , 9)
13% Blair McDonough (Neighbours, 10)
10% Samuel Johnson (Secret Life of Us, 10)
6% Wil Anderson (Glass House, ABC)


Please Note: 18% of votes for this category were spread across another 89 male television personalities.



Most Spankable Female TV Personality
In the category that really sums up the entire spirit of the Annual TV Fugly Awards, the new host of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show Toni Pearen has been bestowed with the honour of being Australia's Most Spankable Female TV Personality.

27% Toni Pearen (Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, 9)
23% Sami Lukis (Today Show, 9)
14% Holly Valance (Neighbours, 10)
14% Natalie Gruzlewski (NRL Footy Show, 9)
6% Charli Robinson (Hi-5, 9)


Please Note: 16% of votes for this category were spread across another 149 female television personalities.



Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s
The boys from CNNNN took the certificate from Russel Coight's All Aussie Adventures by being crowned the Best Piss Take of other TV Show/s in 2003.

58% CNNNN (ABC)
21% Russel Coight's Aussie Adventures (10)
7% The Panel (10)
5% Media Watch (ABC)
2% Comedy Inc (9)


Please Note: 7% of votes for this category were spread across another 7 television shows.



Most Sensational Current Affairs Program
What you say? Australian Current Affairs journalism is never sensational! Well, we have the category anyway and Today Tonight stole the award from last year's winner A Current Affair. Daylight came third followed by Media Watch.

49% Today Tonight (7)
47% A Current affair (9)
2% Media Watch (ABC)
1% Four Corners (ABC)
1% Insight (SBS)



Least Talented TV Personality turned POP Star
Trying to stop the flow of TV stars carving out singing careers, our voters are loudly saying that Holly Valance should pursue other options.

64% Holly Valance
18% Bec Cartwright
4% Delta Goodrem


Please Note: 14% of votes not counted due to nominees being former Australian television personalities or overseas television personalities.



The 12 Australian celebrities viewers would have preferred to have seen in the Celebrity Big Brother house
Because Channel Ten's Celebrity Big Brother was: a) short on celebrities and b) short on entertainment, we felt that Australia's discerning television viewers could put together a great group of celebrity housemates.

Our voters choice of Aussie Celebs to appear in Celebrity Big Brother as housemates include:

- Steve Irwin
- Kath & Kim
- Kylie Minogue
- Russel Crowe
- Pauline Hanson
- Glenn Robbins
- Kate Langbroek
- Sophie Monk
- Richard Wilkins
- Mick Molloy
- Jim Wahley


Please Note: Another 483 Australian celebrities were nominated for inclusion in the TV Fugly Awards edition of Celebrity Big Brother.



Best Personality Who Appears on a Dodgy TV Show
It looks like the Fuglies voters would like to see Bert Newton put his talent and skills to use on a better show than Good Morning Australia.

40% Bert Newton (Good Morning Australia, 10)
14% Delta Goodrem (Neighbours, 10)
9% Joanna Griggs (7)
5% Ernie Dingo (The Great Outdoors, 7)
2% Sam Newman (AFL Footy Show, 9)


Please Note: 30% of votes for this category were spread across another 87 television personalities.



Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
The Fuglies are dedicated to doing more than just bagging the television industry. That's why each year we ask our voters to acknowledge shows that might not get the recognition that they deserve from the annual Logie Awards and the entertainment media in general. This year, ABC's Australian Story will get to put their paper certificate on the office fridge.

25% Australian Story (ABC)
22% The Fat (ABC)
21% The Glass House (ABC)
10% The World Game (SBS)
8% Landline (ABC)


Please Note: 14% of votes for this category were spread across another 23 television shows.



Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
The 2003 Fuglies voters recognised the delightful and talented Deborah Mailman as being the Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality in Australia's television industry.

15% Deborah Mailman (Secret Life of Us, 10)
13% Tony Squires (The Fat, ABC)
12% Glenn Robbins (The Panel, All Aussie Adventures, 10. Kath & Kim, ABC)
9% Wil Anderson (Glass House, ABC)
2% Jabba (Jabba's Morning Glory, Channel V)


Please Note: 49% of votes for this category were spread across another 103 television personalities.



Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Eddie Maguire was a clear winner of the Most Over Exposed TV Personality for the second year running.

60% Eddie Maguire (Footy Show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 9)
15% Rove McManus (Rove Live, 10)
11% Richard Wilkins (Today Show, 9)
5% Ray Martin (A Current Affair, 9)
4% Bert Newton (Good Morning Australia, 10)


Please Note: 5% of votes for this category were spread across another 60 television personalities.



Overseas TV Show that you Wish Would Just Disappear
This category was created due to the flood of ordinary overseas television shows that the television networks continue to broadcast into our living rooms each night. This year it appears that not Everybody Loves Raymond as much as Channel Ten might think.

19% Everybody Loves Raymond (10)
15% Fat Club (9)
11% Ricki Lake (7)
9% The Bachelor (9)
3% Law and Order (10)


Please Note: 43% of votes for this category were spread across another 23 overseas television shows.

[Alisso]

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Ex-pat Aussie Simon Baker edged out last year's winner Jamie Durie to be crowned Australia's Spunkiest Male TV Personality for 2003.

31% Simon Baker (The Guardian, 10)
22% Jamie Durie (Backyard Blitz , 9)
13% Blair McDonough (Neighbours, 10)
10% Samuel Johnson (Secret Life of Us, 10)
6% Wil Anderson (Glass House, ABC)


Please Note: 18% of votes for this category were spread across another 89 male television personalities.

I'm not sure whether or not I should be proud of him *larfs*

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Most Spankable Female TV Personality
In the category that really sums up the entire spirit of the Annual TV Fugly Awards, the new host of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show Toni Pearen has been bestowed with the honour of being Australia's Most Spankable Female TV Personality.

27% Toni Pearen (Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, 9)
23% Sami Lukis (Today Show, 9)
14% Holly Valance (Neighbours, 10)
14% Natalie Gruzlewski (NRL Footy Show, 9)
6% Charli Robinson (Hi-5, 9)

Please Note: 16% of votes for this category were spread across another 149 female television personalities.

She's not spankable, she just needs to be bitch-slapped. Did anyone SEE her on Millionaire?? *boggles* Sooooo dumb.

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
The Fuglies are dedicated to doing more than just bagging the television industry. That's why each year we ask our voters to acknowledge shows that might not get the recognition that they deserve from the annual Logie Awards and the entertainment media in general. This year, ABC's Australian Story will get to put their paper certificate on the office fridge.

25% Australian Story (ABC)
22% The Fat (ABC)
21% The Glass House (ABC)
10% The World Game (SBS)
8% Landline (ABC)


Please Note: 14% of votes for this category were spread across another 23 television shows.

Woot for both of them being considered good, but awww for them being under acknowledged.

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
The 2003 Fuglies voters recognised the delightful and talented Deborah Mailman as being the Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality in Australia's television industry.

15% Deborah Mailman (Secret Life of Us, 10)
13% Tony Squires (The Fat, ABC)
12% Glenn Robbins (The Panel, All Aussie Adventures, 10. Kath & Kim, ABC)
Wil Anderson (Glass House, ABC)
2% Jabba (Jabba's Morning Glory, Channel V)


Please Note: 49% of votes for this category were spread across another 103 television personalities.

Teehee, Wil got beaten by Tony! *G*

Originally Posted by Munchkin

Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Eddie Maguire was a clear winner of the Most Over Exposed TV Personality for the second year running.

60% Eddie Maguire (Footy Show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 9)
Rove McManus (Rove Live, 10)
11% Richard Wilkins (Today Show, 9)
5% Ray Martin (A Current Affair, 9)
4% Bert Newton (Good Morning Australia, 10)


Please Note: 5% of votes for this category were spread across another 60 television personalities.

Rove, overexposed? NEVER! *snorts*

I like the people who voted for these *larfs* Not TV Week readers, it seems *g*

[Munchkin]

Time for the 2004 Fugly Awards

Worst TV Show
Worst Male TV Personality
Worst Female TV Personality
Most Biased Sporting Commentator
Worst Sporting Coverage
Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Most Spankable Female TV Personality
Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s
Most Sensational Current Affairs Program
Best Personality Who Appears on a Dodgy TV Show
Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Overseas TV Show that you Wish Would Just Disappear

[unfrufru]

The Winners


Worst TV Show
The Hothouse (10)
We didn't even realise that there were enough people watching this show for it to be voted as the Worst TV Show but obviously enough people were initally fooled to watch at the start by the Channel Ten promotions department and wanted to make their opinions noted about this copy-cat show.

Nominees
Mcleod's DaughtersÊÊ(9)
Home and Away (7)
The Resort (10)
Mornings with Kerri-anne (9)

Worst Male TV Personality
Eddie Maguire (9)
Mr Eddie Everywhere isn't content to take three cheques a week from Channel Nine and host the Logies but he also dominate these little awards because our voters are obviously are annoyed at something about him.

Nominees
Ray Martin (9)
Mark Holden (10)
Jon Stevens (10)
Richard Wilkins (9)

Worst Female TV Personality
Catriona Rowntree (9)
Bit of a suprise but we reason that she won the big gong because as well as hosting Getaway she has been fronting every special Channel Nine has done in the last 12 months and people are sick of seeing the same people night after night. Our voters must want a bit more variety.

Nominees
Naomi Robson (7)
Kerri-Anne Kennerley (9)
Deborah Hutton (9)
Bec Cartwright (7)

Most Biased Sporting Commentator
Eddie Maguire (9)
Second year in a row for Eddie. Not a big suprise considering he is chairman of Collingwood and has been annoying AFL fans from non-Melbourne clubs pretty consistantly again over the last 12 months in his role as both the AFL Footy Show host and as a Channel Nine AFL commentator.

Nominees
Tony Greig (9)
Phil Gould (9)
Paul Vautin (9)
Sam Newman (9)

Worst Sporting Coverage
Surfing
This category can be interpreted as either the poor quailty coverage or lack of coverage in any given sport. We might fix this category next year to make it more specific but we can assume that voters this year have wanted it noted that they wouldn't mind seeing more surfing coverage on the box.

Nominees
Super 12 Rugby
Netball
AFL
Lawn Bowls

Most Sensational Current Affairs Program
Today Tonight (7)
Another back to back winner in this very tightly contested category. Only just pipped Ray's high standard program in this award that celebrates the poor quality enertainment/sensationalised/beat up stories that get pumped out by current affairs shows each week night. Attention Channel Seven & Nine Executive: Look, to steal the word from CNNN, just call your program 'Newtainment' instead of current affairs and we'll scrap this category.

Nominees
A Current Affair (9)
60 Minutes (9)
Media Watch (ABC)
Four Corners (ABC)

Most Over Exposed TV Personality
Eddie Maguire (9)
We're sick of this so ee are changing the rules next year because this is the third straight year that he takes this award.

Next year we'll rename the award after the Channel 9 star thus excluding him from being nominated.

The orgainsiers are really really sorry to our loyal and intelligent voters who obviously want their position about Eddie noted to the TV executives but we need to stop the Fuglies from becoming as predictable as the Logies and this will allow other TV stars to get reognised for being over exposed without Eddie hogging the limelight.

Nominees
Jamie Durie (9)
Catriona Rowntree (9)
Rove McManus (10)
Delta Goodrem (10)

Overseas TV Show That You Wish Would Just Disappear
American Idol (10)
Aussies obviously didn't mind Australian Idol (well it was the top rating show last year) but can't connect with the USA version or it just annoys the crap out of voters, either way they want it off the telly.

Nominees
My Wife and Kids (7)
8 Simple Rules (7)
Everbody Loves Raymond (10)
Gilmore Girls (9)

New 'Token' Categories
These are the categories that we are most proud of because just as TV executives re-work programs in their quest keep up with the changing tastes of their audiences, the TV Fugly Awards also make a half-arsed token effort each year to appear fresh and relevant.


Biggest Crying Blubbering Male on Reality TV in 2003
47.42% - Daniel "Saxon" Small (Big Brother 3, 10)
The voters judgement is clearly spot on with this category and we endorse the position that they took. A deserved winner!

Nominees
38.32% - Anthony Sumbati (Australian Idol, 10)
14.26% - Neither, stupid category that shows bad taste

Best Idea from the General Population for a New Reality TV Show
We asked voters to suggest their Best Ideafor a New Reality TV Show as a community service to help burnt out commercial television programmers who have found it difficult to find and produce quality reality television program ideas.

The quality of submissions was really surprising, the general population of TV viewers are very creative. However, there was a very strong trend to have shows that featured television network executives being subjected to very difficult situations.

We've picked the three below from just under 10,000 responses to this category as what we judge is best. We'll put others up on the web site when we get some more time.

Still, some very impressive concepts that we'd like to see on TV much more than what the networks have been coming up with in recent months.

Asylum
12 week series with 12 asylum seekers who are competing for 1 temporary protection visa. Who get deported and who gets refugee status is up to Australia's TV viewers to vote a asylum seeker back to their troubled homeland each week.

Weekend at Bernie's
As an adaptation of the cult film with the same title - 2 people must carry a dead body around for a weekend, They win $10,000 if nobody notices anything is amiss. Also able to have celebrity spin-off version using the body of a former d-list 'reality TV celebrity'.

The Ratings Are In!
Show that follows the three commercial network's head programmers around on the day ratings are announced each week to see their reaction and watch how the expert programmers make their decisions concerning different shows to lift ratings.

Good Categories
The Fuglies and their voters don't just focus on negative aspects of the Australian television industry. We also want to acknowledge some of good things about Aussie television with some fun and meaningful categories.


Spunkiest Male TV Personality
Tom Williams (7)
The Channel Seven star beat Australia's most successful ex-stripper (who has previously been a winner) for this honour. The girls also voted so other new talent high on the list not seen previously during the Fuglies.

Nominees
Jamie Durie (9)
Andrew G (10 + Channel V)
Aaron Jeffery (9)
Brendon Julian (9)

Most Spankable Female TV Personality
Sami Lukis (9)
We've been been massive supporters of the Today Show star since she was voted as the winner of this category in our first ever awards. The good judgement and insight of our male voters really is amazing! Well done guys we again agree 110% with your choice in this category that reminds everyone what the Fuglies are really about!

Nominees
Jo Ashton (10)
Tammin Sursok (7)
Toni Pearen (9)
Erika Heynatz (10)

Best Piss Take of Other TV Show/s
CNNNN (ABC)
Second in a row. A very clear winner, would like to see more shows that cut close to the bone of the TV industry but obviously that won't be happening. Might retire this category next year if there is nothing else filling the boots of CNNN which I don't think the boys from The Chaser are backing up for a 3rd series.

Nominees
Life Support (SBS)
Big Bite (7)
Skit House (10)
Comedy Inc (9)

Best Personality Who Appears on a Dodgy TV Show
Trevor Marmalade (9)
Bit of a suprise to us as he hasn't been in the top 5 before but still a worthy winner in our opinion. Not that our (the organisers) opinion actually means anything but still the opinion of our voters does. This veteran comic obviously needs to get a better vehicle than the AFL Footy Show to do his stuff.

Nominees
Bert Newton (10)
Delta Goodrem (10)
Marcia Hines (10)
Lavinia Nixon (9)

Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
Pizza (SBS)
Again the voters recognise the pr spin that goes with most commercial tv shows and vote real programs for some of our better awards. We are so proud of you all. Well done to the independent broadcaster and the guiys from Pizza for taking this gong.

Nominees
The Glass HouseÊ(ABC)
Merrick and Rosso Unplanned (9)
MDA (ABC)
Catalyst (ABC)

Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
Shaun Micallef (Formerly with 9 + ABC)
We think that the 2004 voters felt Shaun was given the rough end of the stick when Channel Nine dumped his talk show last year and gave him enough votes take out this award. If any casting director or head of programming are reading these results you should take note that our voters are saying bring back Micallef.

Nominees
Andrew Denton (ABC)
George Negus (ABC)
Magda Szubanski (ABC + Foxtel)
tied - Wil Anderson (ABC)
tied - Peter Helliar (10)

[Mythor]

[Thread Resurrection Mode Activated]

The 2006 TV Fugly Awards voting is open.

Does it count as Australian TV Personality if they're American but appearing on the Aussie version of a show? *cough Jillian Michaels cough*

[Edit]
I think they've been open a while but I only got notified today. Results announced May 7th, apparently. VOTE NOW.
Vote John Wood for spunkiest and most underacknowledged.

[miss_doobie]

2006 TV Fugly Awards Results
The complete list of winners for the 5th Annual TV Fugly Awards:

Worst TV Show
- Australian Princess (10)

Worst Male TV Personality
- Daryl Somers (7)

Worst Female TV Personality
- Jackie O (10)

Most Biased Sporting Commentator
- Phil Gould (9)

Most Sensational Current Affairs Program
- Today Tonight (7)

'The Eddie' for Most Over Exposed TV Personality
- Natalie Bassingthwaite (10)

Spunkiest Male TV Personality
- Grant Denyer (7)

Most Spankable Female TV Personality
- Jennifer Hawkins (7)

Most Under Acknowledged TV Show
- Spicks and Specks (ABC TV)

Most Under Acknowledged TV Personality
- Adam Hills (ABC TV)

Australia's ALL TIME Most Overrated TV Show
- Hey Hey It's Saturday (9)

Australia's ALL TIME Most Overrated TV Star
- Rove McManus (10)

Reality TV show that you would never appear on
- Big Brother (10)

Australia's Worst Show Biz TV Reporter
- Richard Wilkins (9)

Overseas Show you want to see on Australian TV
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart