Posted on 02/23/2015 12:19:32 PM PST by Enlightened1
All the awards have been given out and it looks like the final numbers for the 87th Oscars are in. Running from 8:30 PM to 11:48 PM ET last night, the Neil Patrick Harris hosted show garnered a 10.8 rating among adults 18-49 with 36.6 million viewers. Among the key demo that’s a 17% drop from what the final ratings for the 2014 Academy Awards were and the worst the AMAPAS ceremony has done since 2008.That show had a 10.68 rating. The total viewership for last night’s Oscars were down 18% from last year to hit a 6-year low. The 2009 Oscars had a total audience of 36.6 million. Now, the numbers for the 2015 Oscars could see further adjustment, as they did last year but let’s just say, it’s pretty certain they won’t be going up to 2014 or 2013 levels.
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That’s true.
Based on how she looked in her dress, she’s more than compensated with the catering.
Blockbusters are mostly juvenile fare these days. Transformers, The Hunger Games...
It got more viewers than the State of the Union show.
“The gross average audience of 13 networks airing President Barack Obama’s speech puts viewership at 33,299,172. That’s down from the 33.5 million that tuned in for the 2013 speech for its lowest showing since 2000. (President Bill Clinton’s final address in office averaged 31,478,000.)”
Dang did I miss it too ? What was it?
I guess half the country doesn’t want to watch a left-wing circle jerk on national television.
I’m older than all of you, and don’t have dementia-——— but—— What’s an Oscar? (Heehee)
2009’s Oscar broadcast celebrated the films of 2008 ——> Bush’s fault.
Therefore this must be Bush’s fault too.
Bush and the JOOS!!
He may be out on Hollywood and Vine hustlin' if you really need to catch a glance.
Didn't a streaker run onstage at the Oscars in the 1970s?
I like music but the music I like is rarely ever nominated for a Grammy. Even when the artists are nominated, it’s an insult.
Brian Wilson finally completed SMiLE and the only bit of that production was Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow (a noisy dirge thing) which was up for ‘best instrumental’. Feh.
Liking movies is not linked with caring about the Oscars.
>>The gays already have the Tony Awards, can’t they leave the rest alone?
No.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html
Fairies and Communists by Jack Paar
There used to be a time when it looked like the Communists were taking over show business. Now it’s fairies. They operate a lot alike, actually; both have a tendency to colonize. Just as there used to be no such thing as one Communist in a play or movie, now there is no such thing as one fairy. Where you find one, you usually find a baker’s dozen swishing around. I had a little game I used to play when I was an actor in Hollywood, back in the days when Communists or Communist sympathizers were nearly as plentiful in the film capital as yes-men. If I spotted someone in a picture who was a Communist or leftist, I could usually pick out several others. They always came in sets. Now I play it a different way. When I hear that some fairy is producing or directing or acting in a play, I can often name some of the rest of the cast, even if I’ve never heard it. But Communists and fairies do differ in some respects. The Hollywood Communists had their “Unfriendly Ten,” who refused to testify before a Congressional Committee, but the fairies are overfriendly. They do say no occasionally. “When a fairy says no,” Alex King has observed, “he almost throws his back out of joint.” The poor darlings, as they sometimes call themselves, are everywhere in show business. The theater is infested with them and it’s beginning to show the effects. “The New York theater is dying,” the late Ernie Kovacs complained recently, “Killed by limp wrists.”
The dance is a mecca for the gamboling third sex, which prompted Oscar Levant to observe that “ballet is the fairies’ baseball.” The movies have long been a happy hunting ground for them, and now they’re starting to take over television. No TV variety show seems complete without a group of fairy dancers leaping about with balloons.
George Jean Nathan wrote long ago, “What we need is more actors like Jack Dempsey. Jack may not be much of an actor but his worst enemy cannot accuse him of belonging to the court of Titania.” Alas, things have been getting worse ever since.
The increasing emasculation of our stage seems to stem in part from the influence of actors from England, where homosexuality is rampant in the theater. Kenneth Tynan, the British critic, has acknowledged the growth there of the theatrical phenomenon known as “camp” whose distinguishing feature, he says, is a marked inclination toward the dainty, the coy and the exuberantly fussy. “High comedy in England is nowadays hostage in the camp of camp,” he lamented. “With each new season its voice gets shriller and its blood runs thinner.”
Formerly playwrights were writing plays about fairies and now they’re writing plays for them. There was a wonderful scene in Peter Pan when Mary Martin turned and asked the audience if they believed in fairies and they answered with an affirmative roar. I began to get worried when the cast started drowning out the audience.
Not only have homosexuals taken over a leading role in the theater, but the theme of homosexuality is becoming increasingly prominent on the stage as witness Advise and Consent, Compulsion, The Best Man and Tea and Sympathy, some of which have been produced on both the stage and screen. Recently, not one but two versions of the life of Oscar Wilde were showing in New York.
A half century ago Wilde was jailed and disgraced in England for “The love that dared not speak its name,” yet today actors found guilty of the same offense become not only famous but honored. One of England’s most noted actors and a popular American male singer have both been convicted of homosexuality without it adversely affecting their public lives or careers...
A gay guy in his underwear on a stage in front of millions of people. They think that is entertainment... somewhere.
He was on the Kelly Ripa & Michael show the next day. Kelly loves gay guys. Whenever I have a day off and turn on the show at 9am pst she has some guest that sets off my gaydar.
Just throwing this in - Kelly Ripa
http://revart.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/18/y_kellyripa31.jpg
I was thinking that nomination of AMERICAN SNIPER for the Best Picture might encourage more viewers to watch OSCARS this year...I do not think that happened...
Many viewers, rightly, concluded that AMERICAN SNIPER will not win the Best Picture award...Therefore, they did not bother watching the show...
The last figure I heard was that 92 million people are not in the labor force. It would seem to me that perhaps half of that number are women. Had Arquette been sincere, she would have commented about the terrible state of the economy and the hardships it imposes on women. The ultimate equal pay is zero dollars for women and zero dollars for men.
The Grammys are unworkable. Too many categorizes that are completely random. The Oscars and Tonys are logistically feasible.
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