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Monday, September 18, 2017

Few Seem To Care About the Emmys

Last night's Emmy awards show had really poor ratings.  In the demo, the numbers were down 18% from last year, and last year's show was down from the year before.  This year's show may set a new all time low in the ratings for the Emmys.  It seems as if not that many people cared what the various TV personalities had to say or who won Best Performance by a Vegetable in a Cooking Show.  (In case you missed it, the winner was a rather large Turnip on Lydia's Italy.)

The numbers are still preliminary, so there could be some change, but it's highly unlikely to be big enough to rescue host Stephen Colbert from being the face of the biggest Emmy failure ever.

There ought to be a lesson to Hollywood in these results (and also from the terrible box office numbers of this past summer.)  Sadly, the Hollywood people will surely miss this.  Nevertheless, these people ought to understand that the half of America that supported President Trump really didn't want to tune in so that they could be insulted as racists, sexists, homophobes, and Islamophobes or to hear Trump bad mouthed for three hours.

Besides, even without the politics, does anyone still care about the Emmys?  Not many, it seems.

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