John Bryant observes:
A combination of factors affecting this year’s Academy Awards viewership show on Sunday:
- Gruesome /dark nature of many of the top films up for awards
- Number of non-traditional film subjects
- Writer’s strike got us away from TV too long and we didn’t come back that Sunday
- Host was a wing-affiliated effete snob cable guy that was not popular with networks
- Poor results at theaters for all but twenty movies during the past year
- Campaign’s were more interesting than what anyone was allowed to say on air Sunday
- Lack of interest in the pretty people now that we are moving due to bankruptcy
- Read that there would be a 15 sec delay so to screen inappropriate comments
- Decided four hours was better spent watching contestant humiliation game shows
- Ran out of interest during Regis’ red carpet prattle with people that are boring in real life
- Was hooked on one of 38 reality shows catapulted to prime time for last 4 months
- 14% decrease in views = 14% increase in ticket cost of movies receiving homage
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