The Oscars had a rough night last night, and it wasn’t just about cow insemination:
THR – ABC’s Oscar telecast reached all-time lows in the ratings, falling sharply from last year.
The three-hour-plus broadcast averaged about 23.6 million viewers and a 5.3 rating among adults 18-49, well below the 29.56 million and 7.7 for last year’s awards — which aired two weeks later. The Oscars were down 20 percent year to year in viewers and 31 percent in the key ad-sales demo of adults 18-49.
Last year’s Oscars stopped a four-year ratings slide, growing the audience for the first time since 2014.
Sunday’s show also falls well short of previous ratings lows for the Oscars, set in 2018. That year the telecast averaged 26.54 million viewers and a 6.8 rating in the demo; Sunday was down 11 percent in viewers and 22 percent in adults 18-49 from prior lows.
It’s always good news to me when these Hollywood award shows hit new lows, because they are filled with so much blather. For example:
Before I saw this clip I honestly hadn’t looked up what any of them said on a political bent. But there’s Brad Pitt lamenting how the Senate refused to call John Bolton in the impeachment trial. This was after the odd cow insemination speech from Joaquin Phoenix.
This is why their ratings are at all-time lows, because people are just tired of Hollywood and their ’causes’ and their liberal politics.