American Music Awards Flops!

Drudge Report ^ | 1/14/2003 | Matt Drudge

[TommyDale]

FLASH: DICK CLARK 'AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS' FLOP... 9.3 RATING/13 SHARE MONDAY NIGHT, SAYS NIELSEN; LOWEST AUDIENCE IN ABC HISTORY OF SHOW [DOWN FROM 11.5/17 IN 2002]...FINISHES 3RD PLACE IN SLOTS; DWARFED BY FOX 'JOE MILLIONAIRE' [12.8/18], CBS 'RAYMOND' [10.1/14]...

[TommyDale]

How are they going to blame all the download pirates for this one?

[New Horizon]

I'm sure it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the music award shows suck.

[goldstategop]

Blame it on Sheryl Crow's t-shirt.

[TommyDale]

"I'm sure it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the music award shows suck."

Or that the MUSIC sucks, just like the entire music industry right now.

[ewing]

FOX must be giddy at the success of Joe Millionaire..

[BluH2o]

The entertainment industry is the most self congratulatory bunch in any industry. Award shows are a dime a dozen and are beginning to grate on viewers sensibilities ... enough is enough ... give it a break!

[Aggie Mama]

Ha. And "Raymond" was a rerun last night.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Face it - if the likes of Eminem are winning four of these, they aren't really "music awards", they are a popularity poll. So who needs to watch?

[ewing]

And Eminem didn't even show up, half the winners didnt!

[Wolfie]

There's just too many damn award shows in general. The People's Choice Awards (the one where even the artists don't show up) was on just the night before. They need to get back to the orginal 3: Grammys for music, Emmys for TV, Oscars for Movies.

[Mo1]

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[mhking]

Now, how can Fox do it again, now that everyone knows that Jethro is not really a milliionaire?

[Katya]

"FOX must be giddy at the success of Joe Millionaire..

I missed the Batchelor shows this one spoofs...but caught the latter half of Joe last night. People are watching this one...because it takes the piss out of these idiotic women. The Joe guy himself, is pretty funny too...obviously they can't run a series like this after the gig is up...but I thought it was a hoot.

[theFIRMbss]

>Blame it on Sheryl Crow's t-shirt.

She looks like Farrah
Fawcett after she's been hit
by bizarro rays...

[sd-joe]

"War is not the answer."

What is the question?

[Oberon]

What is the question?

Ummm... how many roads must a man walk down?

Of course, the question cannot be the following: "Complete this quote: 'Of course you realize, this means ____!'"

[Willie Green]

She looks like Farrah Fawcett after she's been hit by bizarro rays...

Farrah has nicer teeth.

[sd-joe]

LOL

I kinda liked the old
Make love not war.

[Wright is right!]

"I missed the Batchelor shows this one spoofs...but caught the latter half of Joe last night. People are watching this one...because it takes the piss out of these idiotic women. The Joe guy himself, is pretty funny too...obviously they can't run a series like this after the gig is up...but I thought it was a hoot."

It IS a hoot, because Evan, the faux millionaire, is so unpretentious and self-deprecating - and the girls are such lamebrains. Evan actually DOES have a VERY nice voice, if uncultured, and the things he says do not suggest that he is uneducated or dim-witted. At times, he sounds pretty quick on the uptake. Some producer could take this guy and mold him into a real talent in just a few months.

We especially liked the chores he had the girls doing on their "dates" last night - shoveling horse manure, picking grapes, and shoveling coal on an old-fashioned steam locomotive. Makes it pretty easy to weed out the prima donnas.

Shows like this are really funny, because when you take a bunch of twits, put them in a strange surrounding with no script and an element of competition, the twits will behave in all sorts of ridiculous ways.

One of the "funnest" jobs in America must be editing all the raw footage for these shows into a coherent episode.

Michael