The Tony Awards dropped in the ratings since last year, with the top reasons being “Neil Patrick Harris not hosting” and “Woman, the NBA Finals are on!”
Sunday night’s 64th Annual Tony Awards on CBS sank in the ratings, breaking a streak of major awards presentations improving on broadcast this year. The Tony’s drew 7 million viewers and a slender 1.2 preliminary rating among adults 18-49, down 8% from last year. Still, that’s not as weak as 2008, which managed to draw a 1.1 rating.
The telecast ran against ABC’s presentation of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, which was up 36% this year. The LA Lakers at Boston Celtics match drew a 12.8 overnight household rating — the highest of the series so far and marking the top-rated NBA Finals Game 5 since 2004. [THR]
Also siphoning viewers from the Tonys were the season premiere of “True Blood,” the season finale of “Breaking Bad,” and widespread heterosexuality.
Below, I’ve got a couple clips of Kristen Chenoweth with host Sean Hayes, the first of which was a makeout session directed at the Newsweek editorial that claimed Hayes couldn’t play a straight man. I think the evidence is inconclusive. This experiment needs a control group. That’s why I’m volunteering to be filmed making out with Kristen Chenoweth. Strictly for scientific purposes, of course. My boner will get to the bottom of this!
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I’ve never understood why this was televised. “Come watch people that you don’t know accept awards that are meaningless to you!!!”
If the Tony’s want to increase their ratings next year, Reed Alexander from iCarly needs to be the host.
If you get to makeout with her, take a sandwich. Homegirl looks HUNGRY. Bring fries and a chocolate shake too. She needs the calories.
Uff, whether you meant it that way or not, thanks for stickin’ up for Hayes. That Newsweek column was horse-shit.
Yeah, but I want to know when the Tony! Toni! Tone! Awards will be held to celebrate the greatest R&B act of our generation.
Uh, if that was meant to sell heterosexual, I’m not buyin’.
(if she was doing some riff on the creature from Splice, well done !)
My boner will get to the bottom of this!
This = Christina Hendricks
Is it just me, or does she need to eat a sandwich?
I’d like to wear Chenowith as a hat.
Kristin Chenoweth. Ahhh, be still, my beating boner!
I can’t believe there was a show that had Scarlett Johanssen in it and you chose to instead give us a video of this troll. Fail.
I can’t believe you watched the Tonys, then had the lack of originality to address me with an Internet cliche. Eat a syphilitic dick.
I can’t believe that some dude who watched the Tonys cares about the chicks who participated. Did one of them have a more fabulous dress than the other?