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@colleenkenny's avatar

The Emmys have been a masturbatory event for over a decade. Americans don't care and they have not for a long time. They like watching shows that they enjoy. Ratings used to help media companies keep score. In my past life working at America's #1 Network, we focused on viewership as our measurement of success, not awards (which was helpful because our shows tended not to win them ;). We were acutely aware that American viewers don't have the time or interest in what a particular body of critics, celebrities, or trade press say about anything. Streaming clouded the measurement picture, allowing walled garden platforms to grade their own work and perpetuate the false promise of endless growth and unlimited resources. Award shows as we know them are a huge waste of time and money. Do they do damage beyond the fiduciary waste? If nothing else they are a lame diversion for all involved ... time and energy that could have been spent doing something that mattered.

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Bessie Scrivner's avatar

How many people actually watch Lizzo’s series?

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