Why no one cares about Hollywood celebrating itself

 Ace of Spades:

#OscarsSoWoke: Academy Awards Broadcast Plummets to 9.8 Million Viewers, Half of Last Year's Show, and One Quarter of the Ratings from Seven Years Ago

Gee I wonder why.

And no, it's not all about the pandemic. It's true that few movies came out last year, but the Oscars have never primarily been about one year's movies.

They've been about celebrating celebrity and fame.

And for some reason, people don't care about famous people reading lines written for them by less-famous people any more.

The prestigious awards show drew an average of 9.8 million viewers for ABC on Sunday, according to early Nielsen numbers. That's 58% below the ratings from last year's show, the previous lowest-rated Oscars, which brought in in 23.6 million viewers.

The show remains one of the most-watched broadcast events, but its viewership represents a steep drop from what the show used to bring in. Just seven years ago, the Oscars nabbed more than 40 million viewers.

The telecast itself was widely panned for being boring and preachy.

Although viewership dropped considerably, Lowry added, "It will be hard to separate the extent to which that was beyond the producers' control, as opposed to being at least partly due to a telecast that too often felt like a public television pledge drive."

Well, the Oscars are going to reflect the movies Hollywood is making, and Hollywood is making mostly #Woke Afterschool Specials for a public that is no longer buying their bullshit.

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