RUSH: Did you see the Emmys were last night. Did anybody watch \u2019em? The ratings for the Emmys crashed, apparently to a new all-time record low. Which to me is curious, because honestly, folks, we are in the golden age of television. Depending on your moral code but the creativity, the content has never been better. There is more television today, good TV, more options. Remember when we were growing up there were three networks, and that was it? I don\u2019t mean to be harping on that.<\/p>\n
And then it wasn\u2019t that long ago, if you go back just 10 years, 12 years ago, it was still largely network TV — ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox — and those successful shows, those producers had to come up with 21 to 24 episodes a season. It was a marathon. They never got any time off. Even when the season ended, they got a couple weeks break and started writing the next. I\u2019m not commenting on whether you like the shows or not. I\u2019m talking the output was phenomenal. Now the trend in television and anybody working in television will tell you that there\u2019s no better time than now.<\/p>\n
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“You mean I don\u2019t have to produce 24, 21 episodes? All I gotta did is produce eight or 10, maybe 13 at the most a year instead of 24?” You\u2019ve got people getting into TV, and they\u2019re producing some of the… Well, without making a judgment on it, the number of people paying to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime video and everything else is through the roof. My point is, a lot of people are spending a lot of time loving watching television.<\/p>\n
So why wouldn\u2019t an award show where it\u2019s gonna be announced which of these programs\u2019 stars and producers, directors, writers, and the shows themselves are the best? The two usually go hand in hand, but there was absolutely no desire to watch the Emmys last night. By the way, we\u2019re through with summertime. I mean we\u2019re now in the middle of September. Everybody that\u2019s going to school is back to school. Families have resumed their normalcy. The sun\u2019s going down a little bit earlier.<\/p>\n
You know, you\u2019re not during summertime, late afternoon outside activities. I just find it curious. The content, by the way? Oh, of course, the content last night was juvenile and of course nothing but anti-Trumpers, Never Trumper and so forth. I\u2019m kind of asking the question rhetorically, but still to make the point. In the eyes of many television viewers, you\u2019ve never had more options. It\u2019s never been more plentiful, the quality on balance has never been better. A lot of eyeballs. Watching television in a lot of different ways. Watching on their phones. Watching on iPads, regular TV screens. More people than ever.<\/p>\n
Yet when it came time to announce the awards for all this great stuff, nobody cared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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