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 Best Drama: Damages (runner up: Dexter).
Best Comedy: Ugly Betty (runner up: Summer Heights High).
Best MiniSeries / Telemovie: The King
Best Documentary: Rampant (runner up: Butchered Boys)
Best Newcomer: Damages
Best Reality: The Amazing Race
Boldest Concept: Wilfred - a bong-smoking dog!
Worst Show: A tie between The Catch-Up and Celebrity Dog School
Most Disappointing: Bionic Woman (runner up: Torchwood)
Most Overhyped: ‘New’ Neighbours
Lost the Plot: Heroes
Man of the Year: Mark Indelicato, Ugly Betty (runner up: T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy)
Woman of the Year: Rosie O’Donnell (runner up: Julia Zemiro)
Couple of the Year: David Tennant & Freema Agyeman, Doctor Who
Hunk of the Year: ‘Chad’ (Jason Lewis) Brothers and Sisters
Babe of the Year: Katee Sackhoff, Bionic Woman/Battlestar Galactica
Best Ensemble: Ugly Betty
Best Butt: Daniel McPherson, City Homicide
Best Hair: Sanjaya Malaka, American Idol
Best Card Carrying Homo: “Kevin’, Brothers and Sisters
Diversity Award: The Circuit (runner up: The Librarians)
Best Pash of the Year: Cpt. Jack Harkness & ‘Cpt. Jack Harkness’, Torchwood
Best Sex Scene: Anything in Californication
Prison Watch: Paris Hilton, Keifer Sutherland, and Prison Break’s own Tweener. Wentworth Miller where are you now?
Bitch of the Year: Ja’mie, Summer Heights High
Best Baddie: Glenn Close, Damages
Bitchfight Trophy: Rosie O’Donnell vs Elisabeth Hasselbeck, The View
Upstaging Trophy: Mary Kostakidis
Best Guest Appearance: Little Britain’s ‘Andy & Lou’ on Neighbours
Worst Guest Appearance: Matt Lucas on Kath & Kim
Best Cameo: Ronnie Corbett snorts lines of coke from a toilet bowl at the BAFTAs, Extras
Best Visual Gag: Dawn French leaping full-bodied into a puddle, The Vicar of Dibley
Live TV Highlight: Directly before its launch, Eddie McGuire acknowledges Viva Laughlin as “the worst show ever” live on Millionaire, hoping the curiosity factor would work. It didn’t.
News Highlight: “Next in Ten News: is homework, like that hostess story, really a waste of time?” – Mal Walden, TEN
Sporting Highlight: A shirtless David Beckham in Sydney. We want what we paid for.
Best Interview: “It sounds to me like they’re being used by you for your career.” – Andrew Denton carpets Kyle Sandilands for a radio interview in which a son confronted his father for having oral sex with another man.
Best Awards Moment: “If mothers ruled the world there would be no goddamned wars in the first place!” Sally Field, 2007 Emmys.
Reality Highlight: P’eta, the first openly gay woman (as opposed to bisexual) in an Aussie reality show.
Persistence Points: Kerri-Anne Kennerley interviewing John Stamos, who was suffering from ‘jet lag’.
15 Minutes of Fame: Tarisai, Australian Idol. She went out with a bang.
Best GLBTi Exploitation: ‘Can Tinky Winky get into a gay pub?’ The Chaser
Worst GLBTi Exploitation: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Campest Moment: ‘Flying the Flag’, England’s 2007 Eurovision entry/High School Musical 2.
Closet Cases: OUT: Anthony Callea, David Hyde Pierce, Missy Higgins, Jodie Foster, Tim Campbell.
IN: Ryan Seacrest?
Separated at Birth: Eurovision winner Marija Šerifovic/Hiro, Heroes
Quiet Achiever Trophy: Anton Enus (again), now SBS News’ saviour
Vale: John Inman, Are You Being Served?, Darlene Conley, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Charmaine Dragun, TEN newsreader
Blunder of the Year: “I’m feeling like I had sex with a black man right now,” – Grant Denyer, tied with Matthew Newton’s career
Worst Idiot: Ryan ‘Fryzie’ Fitzgerald (too many ignorant quotes to list here) tied with Isaiah Washington.
Most Overexposed: Andrew O’Keefe, Sunrise, Deal or No Deal, ad nauseum
Most Irritating: Andrew O’Keefe
Most Underrated: Julia Zemiro, RocKwiz
Most Bizarre Publicity Stunt: Nine sends out Bert Newton’s hair on a shopping mall tour.
Worst Programming Idea: 7HD content, tied with Ralph TV
Worst Innovation: The Mint puzzles. How did you arrive at that answer?
Best Big Brother Moment: Bodie hits Gretel on the head with a rubber chicken during the finale. She looked pissed.
Musical Highlight: Scrubs’ musical episode, tied with The Choir of Hard Knocks
Musical Lowlight: The Idol cattle-call which was John Foreman Presents: Burt Bacharach
Didn’t See That Coming: Kyle & Jackie O to replace Gretel Killeen on Big Brother
What the? Award: Carson Kressley and Richard Reid at the Melbourne Cup
Panic Attack: “Jesus Christ help us oh Lord” played in an audio loop over Seven’s MayDay movie.
The Holy Shit! Trophy: The American Writer’s Strike. 2008 will suck.
Best Finale: The Sopranos. An abrupt ending that left viewers arguing.
RIP: The West Wing, Will & Grace, The Sopranos, The Vicar of Dibley and...
Still clinging like a barnacle in the US: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Where Are They Now?: Nip/Tuck, The L Word, Bad Girls
Tina, Bring Me The Axe: Australia’s Funniest Home Videos
Phrase of the Year: “Who would you turn gay for?” - Rove McManus
Most Overused Phrase: “Am I bovvered?” Catherine Tate
Unscripted Line of the Year: “Who cares what you do in your bedroom? Come and do it in mine!” - Stephen K. Amos to Anthony Callea, Spicks & Specks
Most Overused: The word ‘journey’in Australian Idol
Pay TV Highlight: Dexter
Pay TV Lowlight: Queer channel, CurveTV (who?) is dropped
What’s Hot: Seven Network, ABC, Dexter
What’s Not: Nine Network, Network TEN, SBS ads, CSI, Joey Fatone.
Network of the Year: SBS
And the winner is: Ugly Betty was not only the campest TV in ages, it included three GLBTI characters.
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