Cinema Chat: 04/29/21
The 93rd Academy Awards slumped to their smallest TV audience ever. But the April 25 show was hardly alone this awards season in achieving that dubious milestone. The 10.4 million viewers for ABC’s Oscars telecast a 56 percent drop from 2020 were in keeping with a host of other awards broadcasts over the past seven months. Collectively, the four biggest awards shows the Emmys, Globes, Grammys and Oscars lost a staggering 35 million viewers from their previous telecasts in the 2019-20 season, suffering an average drop of 45 percent. The Emmys actually fared the best, losing only 9 percent of their 2019 audience (albeit from a much lower starting point than the other three).
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Megyn Kelly on Monday mocked the Oscars for being too woke for audiences
The former NBC host turned podcaster let rip as ratings for Sunday s ceremony dipped to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers
It marks a 58 per cent drop compared to last year s already record-low 23.64 million viewers
The huge drop continues an overall multi-year downward trend for the Academy Awards, which were seen by more than 43 million people in 2014
The Grammys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards all experienced more than 50 per cent declines in viewership this year as well
Film fans had already derided this year s ceremony as the wokest ever after a string of virtue-signaling speeches by stars