The 59th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were held on Sunday 23 April 2017 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast live on the Nine Network.[1] Public voting for the Best Award categories began on 20 November 2016 and ended on 18 December 2016.[2][3]
Following the return of the Logie Award for Best Factual Program category at the 2016 Logie Awards, the 2017 Awards reinstated the category of Logie Award for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program, which is not a publicly voted category.[1]
Dannii Minogue was named as 2017 Logies ambassador.[4]
Nominees & Winners
Nominees were announced on 26 March 2017.[5][6]
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Best Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
| Most Outstanding Drama Series
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Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
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| Most Outstanding Entertainment Program
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Most Outstanding Comedy Program
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| Most Outstanding Children's Program
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Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report
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- "Australia's Shame" (Four Corners, ABC)
- "Anita Cobby: You Thought You Knew It All…" (Seven News Investigates, Seven Network)
- "George Pell Investigation" (7.30, ABC)
- "Good Cop, Bad Cop" (60 Minutes, Nine Network)
- "Money For Nothing" (Four Corners, ABC)
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| Most Outstanding News Coverage
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Most Outstanding Sports Coverage
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- "Sky News Election Coverage 2016" (Sky News Live)
- "Bankstown Hospital" (Nine News, Nine Network)
- "Federal Election 2016" (Seven News, Seven Network)
- "Inside Syria" (SBS World News, SBS)
- "S.A. Waste Dump" (NITV News, NITV)
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| Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program
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- Conviction (ABC)
- Deep Water: The Real Story (SBS)
- Gogglebox Australia (Lifestyle/Network Ten)
- Keeping Australia Alive (ABC)
- Todd Sampson's Body Hack (Network Ten)
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