The Emmys can’t catch a break.
While different award ceremonies have managed to bounce again (at the very least barely) from their pandemic lows, the seventy fifth Emmy Awards hit one other miserable milestone. Only 4.3M viewers watched Monday evening’s ceremony on Fox, in keeping with early Nielsen information.
That’s a major lower from final yr’s earlier all-time low, when lower than 6M folks tuned in for the present on NBC. The awards present was additionally down greater than 37% from the final time the Emmys aired on Fox in 2019, when the viewers sank to a then-historic low of 6.9M.
All of the above have been a lot decrease than the final Monday evening ceremony in 2018, when NBC raked in 10.17M viewers.
Fox continues to be calling it a little bit of a win, for the reason that ceremony marks the community’s Monday watched Monday unscripted telecast in additional than eight years (excluding sports activities, after all). It’s additionally the most-watched Monday leisure programming in additional than 18 months.
These numbers aren’t closing, since Monday was a nationwide vacation. Nielsen’s closing numbers for the present shall be obtainable tomorrow, and they’ll possible be barely greater than these totals, although not sufficient to make an enormous distinction within the consequence. This put up shall be up to date when these numbers can be found.
Despite the ceremony transferring to January attributable to Hollywood’s twin strikes final yr, the Emmys nonetheless needed to go up towards the NFL for primetime eyeballs. The Eagles misplaced to the Buccaneers within the wild card spherical, which was certainly a extremely watched matchup — possible much more of a primetime competitors than any sport through the common season would have been.
The seventy fifth Emmy Awards have been mainly a sweep for The Bear, Succession and Beef within the high classes. HBO led all networks with 9 wins on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, adopted by Netflix and FX with six every. Jeremy Allen White and Ebon Moss-Bachrach continued their awards-season rolls, as did Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin. Also, Elton John accomplished the profession EGOT with an Emmy win for Disney+’s Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium. See the complete listing of winners right here.
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