{"id":42335,"date":"2025-08-04T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42335\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:49:09","slug":"how-the-dominance-of-abc-disinterest-in-netflix-stan-and-streaming-means-for-australian-tv-viewership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42335\/","title":{"rendered":"How the dominance of ABC, disinterest in Netflix, Stan and streaming means for Australian TV viewership"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only streaming drama to triumph was Netflix\u2019s Apple Cider Vinegar, which won the best miniseries or telemovie category. The shows it beat \u2013 Critical Incident (Stan*), Fake (Paramount+) and How to Make Gravy<\/a> (Binge), Plum<\/a> (ABC) and Human Error (Nine) \u2013 were all mainly on streamers (so no ratings data) or were less flashy free-to-air dramas.<\/p>\n

So, while it is not as simple as ABC good\/Netflix bad, it is as simple as the ABC won because it produced high-quality shows that were critical and popular hits and the ABC\u2019s audience was engaged enough to then back those shows with votes.<\/p>\n

\"Anna<\/p>\n

Anna Torv as Emily Lawson and Philippa Northeast as her daughter, Susie, in Territory.<\/p>\n

The same can be said for McGranger winning the Silver Logie for best lead actress in a drama. McGranger won because she survived 33 years as Irene Roberts in Summer Bay. She won because Home and Away\u2019s audience love her, watch her and vote for her. In this case, the expert vote didn\u2019t matter a jot.<\/p>\n

And this is where it gets tricky, again. The issue is not McGranger herself, who is an engaging and popular performer, and a lovely lunch date<\/a>. Rather, things get complicated because the Logies have bastardised the word \u201cbest\u201d in pursuit of an ideal that has turned out more like an algorithm. And a bad one at that. And that is not McGranger\u2019s fault, it\u2019s the fault of the new Logies voting system.<\/p>\n

The ratings and popular components of the vote also explain the other night\u2019s real head-scratcher: the ABC\u2019s cosy crime drama Return to Paradise beating the ABC\u2019s critically acclaimed The Newsreader. One is, quite clearly, the best \u2013 as in critically acclaimed \u2013 the other is Return to Paradise, which won on ratings and the popular vote.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbest\u201d awards are Frankenstein\u2019s monster-esque, a stitched together creation that looks and sounds human but has no heart. Previously, the awards were divided into \u201cpopular\u201d and \u201coutstanding\u201d categories, which essentially meant the popular kids and the nerds went home happy, satisfied they had been recognised in their corner of the school yard.<\/p>\n

Now, to use a technical term, they are a complete schemozzle.<\/p>\n

It is easy to write off the Logies as bogan or pointless, a relic of the days when free-to-air television was all we had. But they do matter. They are the only dedicated awards we have for our television industry.<\/p>\n

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They give our talent a platform to be recognised, which is incredibly important when so much content \u2013 and god, that word makes my skin crawl \u2013 is fed to us via overseas streamers or overseas broadcasters. They are our history on screen. Our childhood. Our memories. But the Logies, as they stand, are also broken.<\/p>\n

Does it matter? Only if you believe in a fair playing field. There is room enough to recognise both popular and outstanding performances and shows. If the Logies want to truly represent today\u2019s Australian TV landscape they have some work to do.<\/p>\n

Stan is owned by Nine, the publisher of this masthead.<\/p>\n

Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only streaming drama to triumph was Netflix\u2019s Apple Cider Vinegar, which won the best miniseries or telemovie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-42335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}