Excellent news for individuals who love an earlier bedtime: For the primary time ever, the Academy Awards will air dwell an hour earlier, beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4p.m. PT.
Deliberate to air from 7-10:30p.m. ET on ABC, the March 10 present will probably be adopted by a brand new episode of hit comedy Abbott Elementary. One of many many exhibits that noticed manufacturing delayed because of the writers and actors strike, the sequence might earn a pleasant bump in viewership by touchdown the coveted spot after the Oscars telecast.
A 30-minute pre-show will lead into the 96th Oscars telecast, starting at 6:30p.m. ET. The telecast will even be rebroadcast within the Pacific Time zone in primetime after the dwell presentation.
As beforehand introduced, Jimmy Kimmel will probably be internet hosting the Oscars for the second 12 months in a row, and his fourth time general.
The shift ensures that the telecast, which frequently sees a steep dropoff in viewers because the third hour approaches and it will get very late on the East Coast, will stay in primetime hours. The intention for the previous few years has to maintain the runtime between three and three and a half hours, however that’s seldom the outcome. It is a difficulty that many a bunch has joked about onstage, together with Kimmel, who wrapped up the ninety fifth Oscars by poking enjoyable on the present’s runtime: “We now be a part of Good Morning America, already in progress.” In 2018, he joked that whoever gave the shortest speech would win a prize: a model new jet ski dropped at the stage by Helen Mirren.
The ninety fifth Academy Awards, which ran for 3 hours and 35 minutes, was the best rated present in three years, pulling in 18.7 million viewers.
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