The Emmys rating has reached its lowest level, is Saturday Night Live to blame?

Unfortunately for viewers who spent three hours of the NBC's self-congratulatory slogan, the Emmys SNL Talent Show was not enough to save the awards ceremony – and Unfortunately regretted that the glory days of the variety show has long passed.

Preliminary notes for the 70th edition of Primetime Emmys, in 56 major markets, fell 10% from last year, to reach another historic low, in a context of strong downward trends for all the rewards.

A quick overview of Emmys' total takeover of "SNL": Boss Lorne Michaels produced the series, penning screenwriters Michael Che and Colin Jost to resume their "Weekend Update" routine as Guests of the Emmys. Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson opened the song and Tina Fey, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell and Andy Samberg took the floor, with Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph appearing in the recurring segment of the comedy. "SNL" also cleaned up the awards, winning the best variety show and seeing former talents John Mulaney and Bill Hader win writing and actor awards.

The show was preceded Monday by the announcement of Adam Driver and Kanye West as the host and musical guest of season 44 of season 44 of September 29, treating the Emmys as a promotion extent of the new episode. And even though the Emmys almost always have to plug in the broadcast network that year, the SNL talent barrage was striking – perhaps because their hardware was so unfortunate.

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Jost and Che were criticized for their sleepy segments from their first appearance, and their Emmys monologue had shown no improvement, the two most tiring jokes about diversity and #MeToo with even less magnetism than Ordinary. Things got worse with the almost impossible to reach segments of Armisen and Rudolph, and although the duo received some renewed interest in their new Amazon series "Forever", their collective comedy performance Nowhere was Monday's show.

While Morgan was trying a Millie Bobbie Brown joke and Jones was doing his best to follow RuPaul's zingers, Fey – still a reliable player – was relegated to the introduction of the in memoriam segment. And while Thompson is an eternal MVP, his disconcerting appearance as the final presenter of the evening, an honor bestowed on Oprah Winfrey at the Emmys last year, drew a bit more of Studio 8H's nepotism.

Do you see the flattery of Lorne Michaels, the legend of Betty White, during her appearance? was also self-congratulatory a deal we saw in the Emmys. It was almost comical when an advertisement for "SNL" aired during a break in the series, with many of the faces already seen by viewers, plus an excerpt from President Donald Trump's statement by Alec Baldwin. viewers were ruthlessly spared.

With the impression of Baldwin's Trump as he approaches his two-year anniversary, it is hard not to imagine that NBC would like to leverage the Emmys to spark enthusiasm for the new season "SNL". And yet, the show seemed less the triumph of comedy than its writers and producer probably hoped for, and more like a schema misinterpreted by Jack Donaghy – a much more funny Baldwin character from a far superior NBC show, the deceased " 30 Rock "- maximize network synergy at all costs. As elaborate as the takeover of Emmys' "SNL", his team failed in its most fundamental mission: to make it funny.

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