56th Logie Awards
Date	27 April 2014
Site	Crown Palladium, Melbourne, Victoria
Highlights
Gold Logie	Scott Cam
Hall of Fame	Peter Harvey
Most awards	The Block, Home and Away and Offspring (2)
Most nominations	Offspring (8)
Television coverage
Network	Nine Network
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The 56th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 27 April 2014 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network.^[1] The red carpet arrivals was hosted by Sonia Kruger and Jules Lund.^[2]

Public voting for the Most Popular categories were conducted through an online survey from 3 February 2014 to 2 March 2014.^[1] Nominations were announced on 31 March 2014.^[1] Offspring received the most nominations with eight, followed by Home and Away with six.^[3] The Block, Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars and Redfern Now each received four nominations.^[3]

Background

Changes to categories

In January 2014, it was revealed that TV Week had eliminated some categories in a bid to shorten the ceremony.^[4] The categories for Most Popular New Male Talent and Most Popular New Female Talent were merged into the Most Popular New Talent category to become gender non-specific.^[4][5] The Most Popular Factual Program category was also eliminated^[4][5] and the Most Outstanding New Talent category was renamed Most Outstanding Newcomer.^[6]

Nominations announcements

Nominations were announced in two stages on 31 March 2014; the peer-voted Most Outstanding categories were published in the issue of TV Week that hit newsstands in the morning,^[6] while the Most Popular categories were announced in the afternoon at the nominations event in Melbourne,^[7] which was hosted by Julia Morris and Chris Brown and attended by network stars.^[8]

Winners and nominees

In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.^[9][10]

Gold Logie

Acting/Presenting

Most Popular Programs

Most Outstanding Programs

Performers

• Jason Derulo – "Trumpets" / "In My Head" / "The Other Side" / "Talk Dirty"^[11]
• Ed Sheeran – "Sing"^[11]
• Kylie Minogue – "I Was Gonna Cancel"^[11]
• John Newman – "Love Me Again"^[11]
• Tina Arena – "Only Lonely" (In Memoriam tribute)^[12]
• MKTO – "Thank You"^[11]

Presenters

• Hamish Blake and Andy Lee^[11]
• Julia Morris^[11]
• Lincoln Lewis^[11]
• Dave Hughes^[11]
• Noni Hazlehurst^[11]
• Lisa Wilkinson^[11]
• Craig McLachlan^[11]
• Luke Jacobz^[11]
• Darren McMullen^[11]
• Shane Jacobson^[11]
• Jessica Marais^[11]
• Samantha Armytage^[11]
• Gyton Grantley^[11]
• Tina Arena^[11]
• Emma Alberici^[11]
• Jennifer Hawkins^[11]
• Patrick Brammall^[11]
• Amanda Keller^[11]
• Eddie McGuire^[11]
• Richard Wilkins^[11]
• Kylie Minogue – Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television^[8]

Most nominations

By network

• ABC – 30
• Nine Network – 24
• Seven Network – 19
• Network Ten – 16
• SBS – 10
• Foxtel – 7

Source:^[3]

By program

• Offspring (Network Ten) – 8
• Home and Away (Seven Network) – 6
• The Block (Nine Network) / Hamish & Andy's Gap Year Asia (Nine Network) / Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (ABC1) / Redfern Now (ABC1) – 4
• A Place to Call Home (Seven Network) / Better Man (SBS One) / Ja'mie: Private School Girl (ABC1) / Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (ABC1) / The Project (Network Ten) / Wentworth (SoHo) – 3

Source:^[3]

In Memoriam

The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Noni Hazlehurst. Tina Arena performed a cover version of Bon Jovi's "Only Lonely". The following deceased were honoured: