Say what you want about Seth Meyers, Weird Al Yankovic, Sofia Vergara or anything else connected to Monday night’s Emmycast — but the fact is that it lost over 2 million viewers from last year’s show.
No arguments there.
Yeah, yeah, I know, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards aired on a sleepy Monday night in late-August — instead of its usual busy Sunday night in mid-to-late-September — but NBC knew that when it decided to move the telecast to accommodate NFL Sunday-night football.
Whatever.
Fact is, Monday’s Emmycast garnered 15.6 million viewers from 8 to 11 p.m. — down from the 17.8 million who tuned in to last year’s show, which was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris on CBS. Next year’s show will air on Fox.
Meanwhile, MTV’s Video Music Awards, which aired Sunday night from LA, also dropped significantly — down to 8.3 million viewers from last year’s 10.1 million eyeballs who watched Miley Cyrus twerk away in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena.
Can you say “awards-show fatigue”?
ABC’s name game
Follow the bouncing suits … ABC News unleashed a slew of behind-the-scenes changes on Tuesday. Tom Cibrowski, who’d been senior executive producer of “Good Morning America,” now becomes senior VP, ABC News Programs, News Gathering and Special Events. He’ll report to ABC News chief James Goldston.
Cibrowski will be replaced on “GMA” by Michael Corn, who spent eight years at “GMA” before moving on to “World News with Diane Sawyer.” That’s relevant because Corn, in turn, will be replaced on “World News” by Almin Karamehmedovic (say that name 10 times quickly), who will join ABC’s 6:35 p.m. newscast once David Muir succeeds Sawyer next month.
Get it? Got it? Good.
Last, but not least …
SNY will premiere “The Good Doctor: Dwight Gooden,” a one-hour, warts-and-all documentary airing Monday, Sept. 1 (9:30 p.m.) to honor the 30th anniversary of Gooden’s major league debut … The “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” snared its biggest audience of the summer last week, both in total viewers (6.5 million viewers) and adults 25-54 … CNBC has renewed “Restaurant Startup” (Joe Bastianich, Tim Love) for a second season premiering in January … Sept. 4: Larry Wilmore, who’s replacing Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central in January (with “The Minority Report”), joins Brian Koppelman for “The Creative Spark” conversation series at Kaufman Concert Hall (92nd St.).