Emmys 2024 Rankings Plummet to New All-Time Lows

The small display screen didn’t carry the large numbers.

After a several-month delay as a result of Hollywood strikes, the Emmy Awards on Fox drew the lowest-ever viewers for the ceremony.

Initially scheduled to air in September, the seventy fifth Emmy Awards went up in opposition to NFL playoffs on ABC and ESPN Monday evening, and averaged solely 4.3 million viewers, in accordance with quick nationwide rankings from Nielsen.

This marked the primary time the ceremony competed in opposition to the NFL, and the published noticed a 27% drop from final yr’s earlier report low of 5.92 million, which aired on NBC.

Fox does anticipate a bump in viewership Wednesday when closing numbers are available, nevertheless it’s powerful to think about second-day numbers attain final week’s Golden Globes, which noticed a 50% year-over-year acquire on CBS, averaging 9.4 million viewers.

Whereas numbers for the soccer sport between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren’t but accessible, first-round playoff video games have been averaging greater than 25 million viewers, together with 23 million for the Peacock unique Wild Card sport Saturday evening, the primary time a playoff sport aired solely on a streaming service.

The Emmys additionally went up in opposition to protection for the Iowa caucuses, which averaged 4.67 million viewers in primetime throughout Fox Information, MSNBC and CNN.

The ceremony, hosted by Anthony Anderson, acquired usually constructive opinions and included forged reunions from long-running collection like Gray’s Anatomy and Cheers—and a plethora of awards for FX’s The Bear, which this publication nonetheless maintains just isn’t a comedy.

The Emmys return in September to ABC, and maybe can then buck the continued rankings decline.