Returning to their typical September berth helped give an enormous enhance to the TV scores for the Emmy Awards.
Sunday’s present, hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy on ABC, averaged 6.87 viewers in quick nationwide scores from Nielsen, together with out of residence viewing. That’s a 54 p.c leap over the delayed 2023 awards, which pulled in 4.46 million viewers — an all-time low for the awards (at the least within the 35 to 40 years of whole viewer data). The 2023 Emmys aired on Fox in January, 4 months later than typical after final 12 months’s writers and actors strikes.
Sunday’s broadcast additionally drew a 1.02 score amongst adults 18-49, a 17 p.c enchancment over final 12 months’s low.
The Emmys have struggled within the scores even earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic produced lows throughout the board for awards reveals. Whereas the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes have since rebounded some since then (although to not their former heights), the Emmys telecast hasn’t averaged greater than 8 million viewers since 2018 and has solely topped 7 million as soon as since then, on CBS in 2021. The present averaged 11.19 million viewers within the 4 years from 2015-18.
The advance for the Emmys on Sunday stops a run of two consecutive ceremonies (on NBC in 2022 and Fox in January) the place the awards drew an all-time low in each whole viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic. Each of these reveals aired on Monday nights reverse larger-than-usual NFL audiences on ABC; this 12 months’s telecast additionally ran reverse an recreation on NBC’s Sunday Evening Soccer, but it surely was a matchup (Houston vs. Chicago) that isn’t more likely to entice an outsized viewers. Scores for SNF shall be accessible Tuesday.
The most important winners on the Emmys, the FX-produced Shogun and The Bear, have been additionally pretty fashionable. The previous spent 10 weeks amongst Nielsen’s hottest streaming reveals (along with airing on FX’s cable channel). Each The Bear’s second season (for which it was honored at these Emmys) final 12 months and the third version this summer season had multi-week runs within the rankings as properly.
Elsewhere Sunday, the 57th season of CBS’ 60 Minutes started with 10.2 million viewers (based mostly on preliminary Nielsens) following an NFL doubleheader. That determine will probably transfer up just a little within the remaining same-day scores, however are available behind the 11.8 million viewers who watched final season’s debut.