Posted on 03/05/2018 1:10:56 PM PST by Red Badger
The telecast stumbles an unfortunate 19 percent from 2017.
A comparatively uneventful Oscar telecast led the way on TV Sunday night — though updated numbers have the telecast somewhat predictably stumbling to an all-time low.
The telecast, nearly four hours long, stumbled 19 percent from the previous year to 26.5 million viewers. That's easily the least-watched Oscars in history, trailing 2008 by more than 5 million. Overnight returns had the lengthy ABC telecast averaging a 18.9 rating among households between 8 and 11 p.m. ET. Compared to the same stat for 2017, the night the wrong best picture winner was named, that was down a more modest 16 percent.
The 2017 Academy Awards, which earned a 22.4 overnight rating, ultimately fetched 32.9 million viewers for ABC — as well as a handsome 9.1 rating among adults 18-49. Still, those numbers reflected the second-lowest in Academy history. (ABC did not immediately report the adults 18-49 rating for Sunday's Oscars, and Nielsen won't widely distribute that information until Tuesday.)
The night was not as political as many recent award shows, with showings of partisanship few and far between. The fallout and response to the exposure of sexual harassment and assault in the entertainment industry was an obvious through line — and honorees like best actress winner Frances McDormand made stands for inclusivity and representation in the industry. Host Jimmy Kimmel seems to have earned praise for another solid performance during his second consecutive year on stage.
But the writing was largely on the wall for lows, either way. All three marquee events of the U.S. TV calendar thus far — the Golden Globe Awards, the Grammys and the Super Bowl — were off significantly from the 2017.
At three hours and 50 minutes, Sunday's Oscars may have only passed last year's runtime by one minute, but it managed to rank as the longest telecast in over a decade. Not since 2007 has an Academy Awards ceremony lasted that long.
And it wasn't exactly a night of box office sloucher nominees. Though top winner The Shape of Water ($57 million domestic to date) hasn't exactly been a runaway hit, it certainly outpaced 2017's winner Moonlight ($28 million) and actually ranks as the top-grossing best picture winner in five years. And Dunkirk, the only other film to nab more than two wins on Sunday, took $188 million at the domestic box office — just a little more than Get Out, which was up in multiple categories and saw a writing win for scribe-director Jordan Peele.
Here's a look at the last ten Oscars. 2017: 32.9 million viewers
2016: 34.4 million viewers
2015: 37.3 million viewers
2014: 43.7 million viewers
2013: 40.4 million viewers
2012: 39.5 million viewers
2011: 37.9 million viewers
2010: 41.6 million viewers
2009: 36.9 million viewers
2008: 31.8 million viewers*
The Film Actors Guild fails agian.........................
Not only is it down nearly 20% from last year, it’s way below the previous low of 32 million viewers. People are tired of Hollywood and their award shows.
I used to watch when they made films like Gladiator.
I guess they all boycotted Ryan Seacrest, now when does he get fired from the Kelly and Ryan show, and the new IDOL show, and his radio show, and the E network?
26.5 million is the real vote count hillary got when you remove the fraud votes
They do not care if the deplorables don’t watch.
You like movies about gladiators, do you?.................
Still too many watching.
Advertisers do.................
I’m disappointed that there are still 26.5 million sheep in this country who watch that tripe.
Dancing With The Stars is heading in that direction.
And Turkish prisons.
More people are waking up to the Ministry of Propaganda.
Hollyweird is part of the messaging.
Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison, Billy?
Heading?
This morning the percentage down of viewers was 16%. Now, it is 19%. Bad numbers. Bad show. Hollywood, destroying it’s own industry.
I heard that it’s falling off and the new 2018 season will have athletes only including Tonya Harding.
I bet if you compare viewership based on percentage of population the show is down over fifty percent from twenty years ago.
That and I’m tired of listening to what Hollywood thinks are the world problems and their solution to them. I probably watch less than half the movies I used to, simply because I don’t want to support them. There are a few exceptions, but most are Leftists and I refuse to support them.
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