Stephen Peacocke as Rob Rickards

ABC’s The Newsreader has gone to the Logie Awards, 1989 model.

Manufacturing Designer Paddy Reardon, Costume Designer Gypsy Taylor and Make-Up / Hair Designer John Logue are amongst the Werner Movies manufacturing staff which has recreated the occasion, matching units and costumes to authentic footage, intercut by editor Julie-Anne de Ruvo.

The 1989 Logies had been held on the Hyatt Grand Ballroom in Melbourne -the very same house the place scenes had been replicated. Exteriors had been filmed at Pullman Albert Park (house to the 1992 Logies as Radisson President Lodge).

In Episode One in all The Newsreader, Information at Six star Dale Jennings (Sam Reid) can be nominated for the Gold Logie.

The precise nominees that 12 months had been Kylie Minogue, Daryl Somers, Craig McLachlan and Jason Donovon -Somers went on to take the Gold.

Sam Reid as Dale Jennings

Nick Simpson-Deeks, Philippa Northeast

Michelle Lim Davidson, Stephen Peacocke

Anna Torv as Helen Norville

Philippa Northeast as Kay Walters

Episode One: ‘Evening of Nights’
In 1989, and Helen and Dale are reaching new peaks of success. Helen has been given her very personal present affairs program, and Dale has turn into the largest identify in information with a Gold Logie nomination. Nonetheless, their state of affairs is sophisticated on the TV Week Logie awards when it’s revealed Helen’s new present, Public Eye, can be in direct competitors with the Information At Six and all her former colleagues…

8:30pm Sunday February 2 on ABC (all episodes on iview February 2)