Sunday’s 76th annual Emmy Awards drew 6.87 million viewers on ABC , according to Nielsen, marking a 54-percent improvement over the prior Emmys telecast . It was the largest audience for the Emmys in three years.
The producers at Jesse Collins Entertainment, including Jesse Collins, can breathe a sigh of relief — not that they had a particularly high hurdle to clear. The January 2024 Emmys on Fox settled for 4.46 million total viewers, a record low.
The audience for the off-cycle celebration was down substantially from the September 2022 Emmy Awards, which averaged 5.9 million viewers — a record-low for the show at the time. The unfortunately-timed January telecast opposed an NFL Playoffs game, which is just about as bad as it gets in terms of live- TV competition (Last night’s Emmys had a “Sunday Night Football” game on NBC to contend with, which is not unusual but not as devastating to the best-of TV ceremony’s ratings).
Originally, those 75th Emmy Awards were booked for September 18, 2023, but the ongoing WGA strike pushed that plan. Even when that finally ended about a week later, the show could not go on. After all, you can’t honor actors without.
.. the actors: SAG-AFTRA’s own strike ended in November 2023.
As it were, Anthony Anderson ended up with the distinction as host of the lowest-rated Emmys in history — a record he still holds today. Sunday’s Emmys, hosted by the father-and-son team of Eugene and Dan Levy, was dominated by FX (and the Hulu p.