Sunday’s 76th annual Emmy Awards drew 6.87 million viewers on ABC, in keeping with Nielsen, marking a 54-percent enchancment over the prior Emmys telecast. It was the biggest viewers for the Emmys in three years.
The producers at Jesse Collins Leisure, together with Jesse Collins, can breathe a sigh of aid — not that that they had a very excessive hurdle to clear.
The January 2024 Emmys on Fox settled for 4.46 million whole viewers, a file low. The viewers for the off-cycle celebration was down considerably from the September 2022 Emmy Awards, which averaged 5.9 million viewers — a record-low for the present on the time. The unfortunately-timed January telecast opposed an NFL Playoffs recreation, which is nearly as unhealthy because it will get by way of live-TV competitors (Final night time’s Emmys had a “Sunday Night Football” recreation on NBC to take care of, which isn’t uncommon however not as devastating to the best-of TV ceremony’s rankings).
Initially, these seventy fifth Emmy Awards have been booked for September 18, 2023, however the ongoing WGA strike pushed that plan. Even when that lastly ended a few week later, the present couldn’t go on. In spite of everything, you possibly can’t honor actors with out… the actors: SAG-AFTRA’s personal strike led to November 2023.
Because it have been, Anthony Anderson ended up with the excellence as host of the lowest-rated Emmys in historical past — a file he nonetheless holds at this time.
Sunday’s Emmys, hosted by the father-and-son workforce of Eugene and Dan Levy, was dominated by FX (and the Hulu platform, virtually talking). Together with the earlier-announced Inventive Arts Emmy Awards, “The Bear” received 11 trophies and “Shōgun” received 18. All instructed, FX led the pack with 36 whole wins.
Disney CEO Bob Iger had so much to smile about (as you noticed him doing many instances on digital camera) these previous two weekends: The Walt Disney Firm owns FX, Hulu, and the broadcast-network dwelling of the 76th Emmy Awards, ABC.
Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” received six Emmys; Iger’s perma-grinning enamel have been seemingly a bit extra gritted throughout these specific bulletins.
In the event you missed all of the enjoyable the ho-hum telecast, the 76th Emmys at the moment are obtainable to stream on Hulu. IndieWire TV critic Ben Travers would in all probability advise you to not trouble: he gave the telecast a D+ grade. In different phrases, the 76th Emmys in all probability wouldn’t win an Emmy on the 77th Emmys.
