Emmys Ratings Hit a 3-Year High, Up 54% From January Telecast
The second Emmy Awards telecast of this year delivered 6.87 million total viewers, ABC announced on Monday, marking a three-year high for the annual awards show. That number represents a whopping 54% improvement on the all-time low delivered by January’s Hollywood strikes-delayed ceremony.
Sunday night’s telecast also earned a 1.02 rating in the key 18-49 demo, which is up 17% from January’s ceremony. Hosted by the father-son team of Eugene and Dan Levy, ABC’s Emmys broadcast earned an average TVLine reader grade of “C+” (read our own review here).
FX’s Shōgun racked up the most wins (with 18), followed by FX/Hulu’s The Bear (11), Netflix’s Baby Reindeer and NBC’s Saturday Night Live (six each), and the Disney+ documentary Jim Henson Idea Man (five).
Fox‘s Jan. 15 broadcast of the strikes-delayed 75th Primetime Emmy Awards had averaged 4.5 million viewers, down 24% from the September 2022 ceremony to mark an all-time audience low for TV’s starriest night. (The September 2022 Emmys had drawn just 5.92 million viewers opposite the most-watched Monday Night Football game since 2009.)
This past January’s Emmys ceremony, which was delayed four months due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, itself faced significant competition in the form of the Philadelphia Eagles-Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL playoff game (which drew more than 16 million viewers on ABC alone) and news coverage of the Iowa Caucus (which had a cable news audience of 4.7 million).
The last time the Emmys built audience was in 2021, when CBS’ Cedric the Entertainer-hosted ceremony drew 7.4 million viewers, up 16% from 2020 and hitting the brakes on a seven-year decline.
I guess the strike delay deflated viewer interest.
Didn’t help that the January Emmys aired a week after the Golden Globes.
It’s difficult to care with the landscape so splintered among so many services. Content all comes at a price anymore and who can even know who’s who and what’s what. No broadcast representation anymore, so no familiar mass audience favorites.
It was a decent outing. The Levys were good. Much better than Kimmel. Very nice Schitt’s Creek reunion at the end to top off all the other reunions.
I guess people prefer a more gentle show with all the constant hateful rhetoric this election season. I know I did and I never watch award shows.