Logies time. Out: Hotdogs In: Nikki Osborne

As Kate has so kindly reminded us, it's that time of year again. Self-confessed televisiophiles such as I have the chance to immortalise a special someone from our screens in the annals of Australian television history. Yes folks, it's time for the 2007 TV Week Logie Awards.

You may recall last year's much-publicised campaign to nominate Simon "Hotdogs" Deering as Logies king. For those of you living under a rock (or with actual good taste in pop culture), Hotdogs was best known for outliving his fifteen minutes of Big Brother fame and going on to star in the Up Late Game Show, the original late night "quiz" show that suckered 55 cents times X out of the phone bill of many a bored insomniac, drunken uni student or dole bludger alike.

I say Hotdogs has had his chance for glory, and the sooner he fades from the public eye the better. (Besides it's time to give this year's inevitable crop of vacuous starry-eyed whores housemates their time in the spotlight.)

This year, vote for a late night cash cow game show host that's actually talented. I nominate the babelicious redhead Nikki Osborne from Quizmania!

In fact, someone has done the hard work already and started a campaign for her at http://www.nikkiosborne.com/. There's a nice image there too which I will not display here for fear of legal reprisals. While the Gold Logie title would be nice, it's a bit ambitious and will probably go to Rove or Lisa McCune again anyway. However the "Most Popular New Female Talent" category fits the bill quite nicely.

Oh, and an addition to being gorgeous and funny, she's not a reality TV contestant nobody either, she's an accomplished actor who's been in several Australian mini-series and movies and apparently just missed out on a part in Lost. Bio here.

Not that I have a thing for her or anything...

Sipping on iced tea, unfortunately not of the Long Island variety.