Sunday’s Numbers
By fred | February 25, 2008
For their 80th anniversary, The Annual Academy Awards didn’t do so well. Was it the lack of advertising during hit shows, the memory and fear of a Golden Globes kinda ceremony, and just that the show was not fun ? I’ll let you decide, but either way it was down 11 million viewers from last year’s 40.2 million !
Averaging an approximate 29.2 million viewers this time, the ceremony actually started above 32 million viewers but they kept going away as the show went on and on. Not good, but don’t feel bad for the Alphabet just now, ABC was watched by more people than all other network combined last night, easy.
I’m sure there’ll be plenty of analysis on how the Oscars are falling apart and are soon to die, just like there was when American Idol returned. Meanwhile, point me to another show that can get the same effect and put a network way ahead of the competition like that, with about 30 million viewers…
Anyways, if you missed it, you can watch the funniest moment of the entire ceremony, courtesy of our good friend Steve Carell !
What else to say about last night ? All networks were on rerun mode, not even trying, as perfectly illustrated by the fourth consecutive reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent that aired on NBC.
All numbers of the night below :
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Shows: Dexter
