Logies 2018: Grant Denyer nominated for Gold Logie for axed Family Feud program

FAMILY Feud might be done and dusted, but Grant Denyer’s still reaping the rewards of hosting the popular game show.

FAMILY Feud host Grant Denyer has won a spot on the list of nominees for this year’s Gold Logie — despite his show being recently axed.

Competing alongside Denyer for the coveted award is The Living Room’s Amanda Keller, actors Jessica Marais and Rodger Corser, A Current Affair host Tracey Grimshaw, and Love It Or List It presenter Andrew Winter.

Denyer has also been nominated this year for Most Popular Presenter.

The nominations for this year’s Logie Awards were announced on Sunday ahead of the big event on July 1 on the Gold Coast.

Gold Logie nominees Grant Denyer, Tracey Grimshaw, Amanda Keller, Rodger Corser and Jessica Marais. Picture: Jerad Williams

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Earlier this month, Denyer confirmed on his radio show that Network Ten had cancelled Family Feud.

“It’s obviously been a huge success for myself and for Ten for four years,” he said on 2Day FM Breakfast with Em, Grant & Ed. “We only thought we’d get two years out of it so it was really lovely to stretch it to four.”

Denyer will have hosted 1200 episodes of Family Feud when it stops airing on TV and suggested one of the reasons the show, which has struggled in the ratings lately, has come to an end is because Ten thrashed it.

“We’re probably guilty, if anything, of driving it into the ground a little bit too early,” he said on radio.

“Six days a week, twice a day, plus All Star episodes, we might have squeezed that lemon a little bit too much.”

Denyer’s Family Feud days are over. Picture: Mark Stewart

Denyer credited the show with not only breathing life back into his TV career but also getting Channel 10 back into the ratings game.

“It came along at a time when I was looking for something new ... and it kind of rebirthed me,” he said.

“It obviously reinvigorated that 6pm timeslot [on Channel 10] which was dead for them for about five years.”

Denyer also told his radio co-hosts that Channel 10 want him to do some “big new projects” which he described as “bright, shiny, new and exciting”.

According to TV Tonight, one of those projects could be an Aussie version of Pointless, a UK quiz show which currently airs on the ABC.

A Network Ten spokesperson told news.com.au: “Family Feud has been an important part of our schedule for the past four years, but we feel it is time to rest the show.

“It will be put on hold later this year and we will be announcing an exciting new game show very soon. We will also have some exciting news about Grant Denyer’s new show on TEN soon.”