Still waiting to see the TV ratings for Disney's ABC-TV Oscars broadcast this year.
It didn't help that the violent physical assault of host Chris Rock by a clearly unhinged Will Smith happened late in the show. If they were trying to create interest in a dying concept, keeping the mentally unstable physical violence until the third hour doesn't help.
Run the violence from the mentally deranged folks at the start, so people tune in quickly and bump your ratings!
Also, I absolutely love that Will Smith was allowed to calmly take his seat after his violent assault. And then 20 minutes later get called up to accept Best Actor.
Can you imagine if the guy running the Dolby Theatre snack bar had walked up and smacked one of the hosts on stage? Or if a Floridian had gone up onstage and slapped Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes after they made fun of them for the way they vote in state elections? Those folks would be
deep, deep, deep inside the Los Angeles County Jail by now.