Did you catch the folks’s Choice Awards? Neither did anyone else.

January 10th, 2008 | Category: Awards, WGA Strike

Another score for the writers! obvious, the People’s Choice Awards, which changed format from final year due to the WGA Strike, bombed in the ratings.

The new format involved a pre-taped show hosted by Queen Latifah. Each of the awards were given in advance to each of the winners and the acceptance speeches were pre-taped, magazine-style. There was no red carpet and no habitable speeches.

The ratings decreased from 11.3 million viewers in 2007 to a scant 6

million viewers in 2008. that does not bode well for the Golden Globes or the Oscars. In anticipation of low ratings, NBC is already offering some advertisers cash back for the Golden Globes.

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Original post by Brad Trechak