Jon Stewart hosted he lowest rated Oscars ever this past Sunday. The montage-heavy show left most viewers yawning by the end. I guess everyone was either watching a Cold Case repeat on CBS or or switching over to an Office episode they DVRed five months ago.
According to Nielsen Research the three-hour-plus ABC telecast "averaged 32 million viewers, the smallest crowd on record—ever."
I personally think that TV stations have way high standards if 32 million viewers is bad. That is one out of ten people in this country. If you take out everyone that is in jail, overseas with the military or trying to talk Britney Spears into rehab - the number of people available to watch TV can not be that high. But I guess it is expected that every American that has a TV and is home must watch a show. I guess this is a lesson in patriotism (especially since every major acting award went to Europeans).
