The 95th Oscars brought 18.755 million viewers to ABC, according to Nielsen’s official national ratings, by no means a high mark but up 13 percent from last year.
The No.
2 show on all of TV in Sunday primetime drew less than one-third that haul.CBS’ “The Equalizer” starring Queen Latifah nabbed 5.599 million viewers at 8 p.m.
on Sunday, per Nielsen data.
That’s a pretty good average considering Jimmy Kimmel’s highly-anticipated Academy Awards monologue was on at the same time.
Probably the best individual win — and speech — of the night, Ke Huy Quan as Supporting Actor from “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” also happened within the first half-hour.Here, we should point out that technically CBS had a stronger show in Sunday primetime: “60 Minutes” at 7 p.m.
earned 6.040 million total viewers.
While still less than a third what the Oscars got, we’re overlooking that one in favor of
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