For years audience figures for the show have been sinking — like previous winner ‘Titanic’.
Handy: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the Oscars on Sunday. Picture: Getty Images/Emma McIntyre
Not since then has the show managed to reach those heady viewership heights. In 2021 a record low was reached when a little more than 10-million people tuned in — possibly by accident after which their remotes jammed, leaving them no means of escape — to watch a terribly bad show broadcast from a railway station with no live music to hide the sound of the once sort-of-great vessel Academy smacking the seabed after a long plunge into the cold, deep darkness.
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