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Ratings Collapse: Early Numbers Show Oscar Telecast Hit All-Time Low
Breitbart ^ | March 5, 2018 | John Nolte

Posted on 03/05/2018 7:34:12 AM PST by Trump20162020

The ratings for Sunday night’s telecast of the 90th annual Academy Awards collapsed by a whopping 16 percent, which would mean an all-time low, according to early estimates.

Variety reports that the “8 p.m.-11 p.m. portion of ABC’s telecast averaged an 18.9 household rating and 32 share in Nielsen’s metered market overnight ratings … That’s down about 16% from the 22.5/37 rating generated by the 2017 Oscars.”

According to Deadline, the “18.9 appears to be an all-time low for the Oscars, below the previous low ratings point for the Oscars, logged with the 2008 telecast (21.9).”

The ratings will be updated once all the numbers are in,But if past is prologue, those numbers will not change much either way.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: academyawards; boycott; hollyweird; hollywood; hollywoodtrash; jimmykimmel; kimmel; moviesaretrash; oscar; oscars; oscarsaretrash; ratings; trashtv
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To: SkyDancer

The wife rented it on our cable and we watched it over dinner last week. Granted our screen is small and the audio not that great but I think the movie would have been much better with subtitles. Oldman was very good. I had anticipated that the timeline of the movie was longer than it was.


41 posted on 03/05/2018 8:56:55 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Candor7

Watched a foreign movie about the Norway resistance in WW2, it was quite good. I will try to remember the name.


42 posted on 03/05/2018 9:02:48 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: All

Wife and I are hooked on PBS Masterpiece Theater. Great series like Poldark and Victoria. Actors who act because they love to act. Not for Fame and fortune.


43 posted on 03/05/2018 9:11:58 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: VietVet876

Subtitles wouldn’t have given the movie any benefit. The voice of Gary Oldman imitating Churchill was priceless. His delivery made it work plus the great makeup on him.


44 posted on 03/05/2018 9:15:44 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Trump20162020

The first and ONLY time I ever watched the awards was in 1978.

With football’s ratings dropping, and all the award shows ratings dropping, you would think that they would get the message that people don’t want to sit thru hours of political haranguing by a bunch of nitwits.


45 posted on 03/05/2018 9:21:31 AM PST by euram
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To: Trump20162020

I used to be a huge film buff in my youth, but found in recent years that I was watching fewer and fewer movies. Went to the theater maybe three times a year. And even though I have access to a lot of recent movies via Amazon Prime and Showtime (I get that so my wife can watch a couple of series she likes), I almost never watch any recent films. Even having them on demand in my living room, I can’t work up the interest. They don’t even seem worth the two hours I’d spend on them.

But recently, I discovered the TCM app on my Amazon Firebox. Great old movies, with different ones added every day. I’ve seen a lot of films from the ‘30s-’50s that I’d missed, movies with grown-up actors and brilliant scripts filled with good stories, witty, intelligent dialogue and recognizable human characters instead of leftwing propaganda or comic book CGI explosions (the only two film genres remaining in Hollywood).

That’s recently led me to start taking my wife to theaters showing old movies. The Magnolia in Dallas shows them every Tuesday, and the Texas and Majestic Theaters also have them occasionally. Last week, we saw “Gigi” at the Magnolia, and the week before that, “Casablanca” in the big, ornate Majestic Theater downtown. Beautiful print (the one restored for Blu-Ray), and the place was packed, so there must be a lot of other people hungry for good movies. It was great to see “Casablanca” the way it was meant to be seen, on a big screen in a gorgeous theater with a live audience. And “Gigi” is gorgeous on a big screen. I highly recommend this. It’s a great date night, and it just might reignite your love of movies, at least the ones made over half a century ago.


46 posted on 03/05/2018 9:22:39 AM PST by HHFi
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To: Candor7

Unquestionably an influence.


47 posted on 03/05/2018 9:30:59 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Trump20162020

That is unexpected. Network news became increasingly politicized, and their ratings dropped. The NFL became increasingly politicized, and their ratings dropped. Now it happened to the Oscars too. How could that be?


48 posted on 03/05/2018 9:41:35 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Trump20162020

Hollywood’s answer, produce a show that hates America even more.


49 posted on 03/05/2018 10:10:39 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Candor7

50 posted on 03/05/2018 10:21:42 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: Candor7
we don't go to the movies either....thought about it once or twice in the last couple of yrs, but then the thought left...

we are happy catching up on old westerns or older cop shows....a movie now and then thru Amazon....

51 posted on 03/05/2018 10:26:55 AM PST by cherry
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To: VietVet876
Granted our screen is small and the audio not that great but I think the movie would have been much better with subtitles.

Subtitles or Captions? If you used a cable box to watch it. You may not know how to turn closed captions on. It is not always obvious how to turn them on. I use a TIVO which is very easy but I have a Spectrum(Charter) box and you actually have to turn the Spectrum box off and go into a hardware setting to turn them on. You can customize them from there. the streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime let you st them in your user settings.

I have had to use Captions for over 10 years. Hearing aids or headphones help but not enough so I have just learned to have captions on everything, even Youtube has pretty good software.

52 posted on 03/05/2018 10:33:08 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: Trump20162020
The best pic winner is about a woman who falls in love with a fish?!

It's a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet?

53 posted on 03/05/2018 10:44:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Trump20162020
So Americans don't want to tune in to see an industry that was rocked with decades of accumulated sexual harassment scandals lecturing us about how to treat women? Americans don't want to see Hollywood tell us we're bad people and we're the problem? And then give themselves awards for films that nobody wanted to see or even heard of?

Gee, I mean they wore nice clothes and stuff while they berated us and congratulated themselves for their enlightenment. Why wasn't that enough to win us over?

54 posted on 03/05/2018 10:45:38 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: BEJ

Groucho Marx lives on


55 posted on 03/05/2018 10:51:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: blueunicorn6

LOL! No, this year’s Oscar went to “Dances with Fishes.”


56 posted on 03/05/2018 11:00:03 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Bet Don Knotts did it better!


57 posted on 03/05/2018 11:04:44 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Trump20162020

God, it is like Oscars are a season now. I thought these were over weeks ago. Who wants to watch a bunch of preening self righteous perverts?


58 posted on 03/05/2018 11:06:22 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: BradyLS

Jar Jar Binks in a musical?

“The Shape Of Saturday Night Fever”?

I smell an Oscar.


59 posted on 03/05/2018 11:06:25 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

or week old tuna!


60 posted on 03/05/2018 11:07:18 AM PST by Reily
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