Posted on 03/05/2018 12:07:23 PM PST by Kaslin
In case you missed the Oscars last night, host Jimmy Kimmel predictably lectured the country about politics, harped on leftism, went after Fox News and repeatedly made terribly unfunny jokes about Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump.
“We don’t make films like ‘Call Me By Your Name’ for money. We make them to upset Mike Pence," Kimmel said.
Ahead of the big show Sunday night, Kimmel made it known he would engage in activism from the stage but according to the numbers, it didn't pay off.
From TheWrap:
Jimmy Kimmel’s return as Oscars host received an 18.9 rating in Nielsen’s overnight numbers from 8-11 p.m. ET, down 15.6 percent from his 2017 debut. Of course, the ABC special ran about 50 minutes after primetime’s cutoff, so these numbers are subject to some adjustment.
Last year’s Oscars landed a 22.4 rating in Nielsen’s overnight numbers, which count 56 metered markets. That was down 4.3 percent from 2016’s very preliminary numbers, when Chris Rock hosted.
Rock’s turn had already dipped 8 percent from its own predecessor.
The Oscars' ratings are on par with the politicized 60th annual Grammy Awardsearlier this year. That show's ratings also came came in at an all-time low.
The show, which ran a bloated three-and-a-half hours, was off an unfortunate 21 percent from 2017 in early numbers. Overnight returns from Nielsen Media give it a 12.7 rating among households — marking its biggest drop since the 2013, the year after the show swelled following the death of Whitney Houston.
Such a steep drop, however, could very well mean an all-time low for the calendar's biggest music awards show once updated numbers arrive.
Unexpected.
Ha ha ha.
Osc...what’s the rest of it?
Maybe it is THESE people who are dividing America and bringing on the Class War..
Good thing nobody saw it.......................
And plan on missing it for the remainder of my natural born life, barring some sort of momentous sea change in Hollywood.
“””The show, which ran a bloated three-and-a-half hours, was off an unfortunate 21 percent from 2017 in early numbers.”””
well, when you alienate half the people right off the bat this happens. So sad. Hahaha
Now it is just a bunch of over paid whiners whose biggest career achievement will be the 60 seconds of self aggrandizing fame on the awards stage.
It’s a 3 and a half hour DNC political ad.
Yes!
The Hollywood types would only care if they noticed their films revenue drops.
Otherwise, the could care less.
A clear sign they need to interject more politics.
‘Call Me By Your Name’
"In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant."
Even if the train of Hollywood liberals put this films into the world because of that intention, it's only one voice or point of view. Sadly these fascists don't comprehend that.
Year after year they don't get it. Leave your politics at home Hollywood. A huge percentage of WE Americas don't agree with you, don't respect you, don't care to hear you, and WE don't want it.
I guess if hasn’t crashed enough for the advertisers to flee, but they may well start paying less to advertise on ABC during the awards in the future and may be already doing that.
But they’ll keep on running them year after year...
I believe the advertisers will keep supporting them because they are also huge anti American libs
1) What's with the "we". Did Jimmy Kimmel have something to do with making that movie.
2) I thought film makers made films because they are artists and film is their art.
3) It's nice that someone from Hollywood has finally admitted that Hollywood film makers are intentionally trying to piss us off and/or offend us.
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