Oscars Bomb on TV
Dont’t expect Jon Stewart to be back as host of the Oscars. The audience tuned out of the deadly dull Oscarcast in droves, resulting in the worst ratings in history, a 20 percent drop from last year, when Ellen DeGeneres hosted. With an estimated 32 million viewers, the smug Stewart beat the record he previously set for the least-watched Oscarcast, back in 2003. Of course, the little-seen Best nominees didn’t help, nor did a show that was slapped together in a week after the end of the writers’ strike. But there was no writers strike back in 2003, when the show managed just a million more viewers.
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