That’s true. Bigger audience next yr. After all, who knows what might happen!
ABC and the Academy doesn’t have to lift a finger for the next couple of seasons to get all of the free Hollywood press speculation that such incidents could happen again. Expect an off screen “feud” between two actors to be sold to hoi polloi a few months before the show. Then nothing happens. Of course if they need it the show can always go with “presetting our next award, Alec Baldwin. Duck!”