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No wonder viewers are boycotting the Oscars

27 April 2021

9:54 PM

27 April 2021

9:54 PM

The Oscars are in trouble. People are switching off in their millions. A paltry 9.85m Americans tuned in to the 93rd Oscars on Sunday evening. Film and TV execs will be tearing their hair out. They go to all that trouble to put on a night of glamour and back-slapping and the little people don’t even bother to watch?

The really surprising thing, of course, is that anyone is surprised.

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