Just 10 years ago, the annual Academy Awards show drew 40.3 million viewers.
Since then, it’s been plunging nearly every year: 34.4 million in 2016, 23.6 million in 2020; and now, in 2023, 18.7 million.
That was a 12% jump from 2022, when the show drew 16.6 million. Apparently everyone was tuning in to see if Meryl Streep would slap Dame Judy Dench.
That, and that alone, would have given the show some pep. But instead, the show dragged on and on, nearly four hours (3:40), led by the drabbiest of all possible hosts, Jimmy Kimmel (the show no longer seems able to pull an A-list host).
With that, two things are clear: Few people in America want to watch the Oscars — and the limousine liberals in Hollywood
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