I’d like to believe people are tuning out that crapshow, but it’s probably more to do with a lot of younger people watching it online rather than on TV.
Yep. When nominated films are ones that people have actually seen and enjoyed, the Oscar telecast will do better.
Bohemian Rhapsody and Black Panther helped with the ratings.
Who’s Oscar? Apparently I’ve been missing this for the last 50 years.
I don’t follow movies too closely, but have had the impression, that in recent years, mostly “arthouse” type movies which haven’t been seen by big audiences, are the ones which get nominations for Oscars.
And the TV ratings reflect that. How many people want to sit through an awards show, to see which movie or actor/actress from a movie they never saw, won an award?
This shows that having a popular host, or even a controversial host, apparently has no effect on the ratings. I heard there were minimal political statements last night. Which could be due to having no host, who usually opens with a monologue of liberal pablum.
And they’d get even better ratings by replacing the actual ceremony with old reruns of ‘Dragnet’.
If the Academy Awards were to disappear tomorrow I wouldn't shed a single tear.
Not one!
How many tuned in just to see Queen, and then tuned out?
It only got any ratings because people were mesmerized by Donald Trumps hair....
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The 3 groups I despise the most:
Democrats
Hollywood
ISIS
(pretty much in that order)
ha ha
