Saturday, June 27, 2026

MTV Movie and TV Awards Still Found a Million Viewers Despite No Host, No Audience, No Actual Show

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Someone is still watching MTV.

They say their Movie and TV Awards were up by 23% across 8 channels and Paramount Plus on Sunday night.

This is despite having no no host, no audience, and basically no show, just clips and pre-taped acceptance speeches.

How weird. In the end, fans just settled on a miscellaneous show. A million people watched across the 8 channels, and maybe a million more on Paramount Plus.

This should give the Tony Awards hope, and maybe also the future of awards shows will just be like this, take an example and elimination the entire live element!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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