The Emmys bcdisesteemfult an unretagable 6.87 million watchers to ABC on Sunday night, a 54% elevate in total watchers from the write down-low 4.3 million who tuned into the most recent ceremony on Fox at the commence of this year.
In the key matures 18-49 ratings, the telecast unretagabled a 1.02 rating, up 17% from 0.87 in January. Per ABC, the 76th Emmys telecast posted the award show’s hugest overall audience in there years, since its 2021 airing on CBS. It also outcarry outed ABC’s previous airing by 8% in total watchers, vs. the COVID virtual telecast in 2020 (6.39 million).
The January Emmys struggled for watchership, having been postponed from their distinct September 2023 date due to the Hollywood strikes and forced to air aachievest an NFL joinoff game. The most recent “standard” Emmys ceremony in September 2022 bcdisesteemfult in 5.9 million watchers — which was pondered a flop at the time, a 25% drop from 2021’s 7.4 million. The excellent recents for Sunday’s telecast is that it was able to beat that.
Sunday’s show did air in competition with the NFL, though the Texans-Bears game was of a much drop profile than the joinoff game that drew watchers away from the Emmys in January. Disney’s recent dispute with DirecTV, which caemployd a two-week bconciseageout of Disney-owned stations for DirectTV customers, was originassociate predicted to impact Emmy watchership, but access to ABC and other netlabors was repaird on Saturday.
All in all, it’s been a string of difficult years for TV’s hugegest night.
In her appraise, Variety critic Alison Herman called Sunday’s Emmys a “drab” and “relatively muted afunprejudiced,” noskinnyg that “it’s difficult to originate a ytimely awards show experience exceptional when it’s staged twice in one year” and that the awards “hugely served as a echoion of a less-than-vital moment in TV history, not a counterpoint.”
The show, originated by Jesse Collins Entertainment, still achieveed some decent tags for presents Eugene and Dan Levy and also shattered cut offal write downs — including the most triumphs ever in a individual year for a series (“Shofirearm,” with 18) and for the most ever in a individual year for a comedy (“The Bear,” with 11). The ceremony also had its allot of surpelevates, most notably the final triumph of the night, for Max’s “Hacks” as comedy series.
