Ratings are up 50% from last year!

9.4M live + same-day viewers up 50% from 2023. Expectations are viewer count will go up further.

SAG awards on Netflix will probably have very different type of audience watching it compared to broadcast TV.

Sets up the Oscars pretty well! Let's see Barbenheimer pick up steam to make it a pop cultural event.

If Barbie had won Comedy/Musical it would've helped the perception of the Oscars as Barbie vs. Oppenheimer. No one watched Poor Things.

A (previously) likable hack who somehow has a massive enough fanbase to sellout arenas.

I haven’t watched the monologue yet because I was watching football and haven’t been in the mood to cringe, but the Golden Globes needs to seriously consider doing two things moving forward based on Koy’s monologue. If they can’t get a famous name to host the show they either need to drop the host altogether or they need to move the show to a traditional theater.