Jimmy Kimmel hosted the present from an empty theater (courtesy jimmykimmel)
Highlights
- Social media engagement with the present was up on final 12 months
- Nonetheless, the present drew glowing evaluations from the Hollywood press
- Viewers watching the Emmys have halved since 2014
Los Angeles:
Tv’s Emmys plummeted to one more all-time rankings low, regardless of producers overcoming technical challenges to drag off an modern and well-received “distant” ceremony, ABC confirmed Monday.
The 72nd Emmys, broadcast from an empty Los Angeles theater with dozens of nominees and winners beaming in by way of video name as a result of coronavirus pandemic, was watched by a median 6.1 million viewers.
Persevering with a pattern seen throughout almost all main award reveals, that determine declined from final 12 months’s 6.9 million — itself down from a earlier report low, 10.2 million, the 12 months earlier than.
The ceremony was dominated by three reveals — limited series Watchmen ended with 11 awards, “Succession” claimed the highest drama prize, and Schitt’s Creek achieved a remarkable sweep of the comedy trophies.
Trying to place a optimistic spin on the stats, ABC famous the Emmys had been up towards a packed sports activities schedule, with most main skilled leagues now again in motion after months of lockdown.
“Airing reverse each NBC’s ‘Sunday Night time Soccer’ and the NBA Playoffs on TNT for the primary time ever,” the Emmys drew the community’s “largest viewers to the 3-hour time interval since April,” ABC stated in an announcement to AFP.
Social media engagement with the present was up on final 12 months, it added.
The ceremony — anchored by in-venue host Jimmy Kimmel, and that includes awards handed to winners by presenters wearing hazmat fits styled as tuxedos — drew glowing evaluations from the Hollywood press.
Selection praised the “stunning triumph of manufacturing” and Deadline known as it “an awards present for the ages.”
Viewers watching the Emmys — tv’s reply to the Oscars — have halved since 2014, as fragmented audiences more and more shun awards reveals.
The ceremony rotates between the 4 main US networks.
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