Emmys 2022 hit record low with 25% drop in viewers from last year

“TV’s greatest evening” of 2022 was its smallest in historical past.

The 74th annual Emmy Awards Monday, hosted by Kenan Thompson, attracted simply 5.9 million viewers to NBC — a 25% lower in viewership from final 12 months’s awards on CBS, in keeping with preliminary Nielsen information.

Moreover, this 12 months’s Emmys had a 1.0 ranking amongst adults aged 18 to 49 — the bottom rating they’ve ever acquired amongst core audiences.

In constrast, the Emmys noticed a 16% spike in viewership in 2021, in comparison with 2020’s 6.37 million viewers.

For the reason that introduction of streaming apps, the variety of tv supplied at this time has posed a problem for the Emmy producers, now unable to discover a extra cohesive viewers. The final time it cracked double-digit hundreds of thousands was in 2018, drawing 10.2 million followers.

The present reached its highest viewership degree in 2000 with a whopping 21.8 million viewers.

Sheryl Lee Ralph wowed Emmys audiences with a solo.

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Highlights of this 12 months’s present included “Abbott Elementary” actress Sheryl Lee Ralph’s singing Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species” throughout her acceptance speech, and “White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge’s chaotic, however on-brand speech, minimize too quick.

HBO’s “The White Lotus” solid and crew received all 5 of the classes for which they had been nominated, however the community’s different standout, “Succession,” and “Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+, every received the evening’s prime classes for Excellent Drama and Comedy sequence, respectively.

Thompson kicked off the present alongside backup dancers, grooving to remixes of in style TV present theme songs, together with these of “Associates,” “Regulation & Order” and “Sport of Thrones.”

Zendaya scored prime honors as Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Collection for “Euphoria.”

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The “SNL” comedian later deemed history-making Emmy winner Zendaya “too outdated” so far Leonardo DiCaprio and slammed “Succession” for its lack of variety later throughout his conventional monologue.

His “Good Burger” co-star Kel Mitchell briefly appeared for a bit on the ceremony’s bar, alongside Jason Sudeikis and Kumail Nanjiani — to the delight of, albeit few, nostalgic millennial viewers.

See the whole winners listing from the 2022 Emmy Awards right here.

With Publish wires.