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The Monday night broadcast of the Emmy Awards broke the record. It is now the lowest rated Emmys show, with 10.2 million viewers of 11.4 million viewers last year.
Not good and not surprising.
I want to blame the bad players on the animators, Michael Che and Colin Jost, who were deaf, deaf, joyless and not very good all night long. Even before their appearance on the Emmy stage, they had inspired Emmy fans' ill-will by criticizing the series of awards in a promotional interview with the Los Angeles Times. It was hard to imagine that the couple, little known for its nuance, successfully chaired a Hollywood event in the midst of #MeToo's tensions. They were not a very inviting prospect.
But the problem goes much further than the identity of Monday night's hosts. The Emmys desperately need to be completely redesigned to make sense in this era of HDTV, to accommodate one way or another the many new movies released each year on Netflix. and HBO, FX and Facebook Watch. The categories must also be rethought, because many scripted series are now between comedy and drama.
In addition, all television shows are suffering today. Last year, the Oscars had dropped 19%, and this year's Grammys had dropped 24%. On the one hand, there are just too many shows on television, which leads to the exhaustion of viewers. And then there is the fracking of niche audiences – there are fewer megahits in all the media – which means that fewer people are looking for candidates.
That said, Che and Jost were always awful.
Matthew Gilbert can be contacted at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewGilbert.
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