And the award for lowest-rated Emmys ever goes to ...
ABC's Sunday night telecast.
The three-hour 60th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony received a 3.8 rating/9 share in the preliminary adults 18-49 demo -- the lowest in Nielsen's recorded People Meter history.
That's 12% below last year's previous Emmy record low, a ceremony hosted by Ryan Seacrest on Fox.
Among total viewers, the numbers are currently too close to call. In the morning figures, the Emmys were the least-watched ceremony in history (12.2 million), coming just under Fox's historic-low 1990 ceremony (12.3 million) and firmly less than 2007's event (13 million). With the numbers this tight, we'll wait until the nationals roll in tomorrow before making a ruling on whether the Emmys set a record low in viewers in addition to the adult demo (in the video clip: Seth MacFarlane talks Emmy ratings).
I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the political blatherings of Hollywood. We'll blame it on.... NFL being on at the same time. Yeah! (Like many men watch the Emmys?)
Read the comments on that story, heh. Ones like this:
I am amazed that Hollywood and the liberal media can not see the writing on the wall. We pay for entertainment not liberal political crap. Keep giving me the political crap and I will ignore anything you say or do which includes your movies, shows or music. I will not buy your stuff and I will not go to your movies! Since you have started bashing America and hating Bush we have lost interest in you. You are egomaniacs who actually think that the world revolves around you and what you think. Wrong. You and your liberal friends are the meanest, cruelest people in the world to people that believe different from you. Hollywood is the most immoral place in the world and you want us to be like you? Don't think so.
With a couple of liberal movies coming out shortly, do you think Hollywood might get a clue?