I’m not so sure about this, especially because I dispute the presumption that the Oscars have a rating problem. The Oscars telecast remains one of the highest rated television programs of each year, and the decline in its ratings, while significant, are roughly within the decline of ratings for broadcast television in general over the same period.
I think the Oscars, as is, would continue to dramatically outdraw the MTV VMAs even if all on the same platform. I also think that any plan to get the Oscar ratings up to what they were 10 to 15 years ago with any kind of production tweak is doomed to failure. On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:16 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > The reason the MTV VMAs clicked with viewers was they tapped tapped into > the pop culture aspect of movies that the Oscars can’t or consciously won’t > do. Categories like “best kiss” are never going to win the hearts and minds > of the academy. I think there is genuine cognitive dissonance between what > the actual awards are for versus what the Oscarcast needs to be in order to > get good ratings. It is a question of sacrificing one to serve the other. > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:32 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've never understood this belief within the AMPAS that 'popular' and >> 'best' can't exist in the same space. Hell - to one person, "Citizen Kane" >> is the greatest film of all time, and to another it's a movie about a rich >> fat bastard and his sled. It's all subjective. >> >> >> On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 9:09:17 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote: >>> >>> Good. Among the many things that makes this proposed category odious is >>> that it was designed to reduce pressure on the Academy to nominate Black >>> Panther as a legitimate Best Picture film. I detest the idea of a “Least >>> Bad Blockbuster”, but would love to see them recognize excellent genre >>> films more than middlebrow cliched traditional Oscar bait. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> They have pulled back on the popular Oscar, at least for now. >>>> >>>> LINK >>>> <https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/academy-retreats-on-popular-oscar-category-for-now-1202930117/> >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
