Weather or not, awards season continues with some potential ratings issues.
The NFL game set for Sunday — the Bills vs. the Steelers — has been moved to Monday because Buffalo is under 10 feet of snow and the temperature is below minus 300. The Bills are asking fans to come with shovels to dig them out so the game can even happen on Monday.
That’s good news for Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards on the CW network at 7pm. Most football will be over by the time the show starts, and will definitely be done by 8:30pm. Ratings for the CCA should be given a little push now by the absence of real competition.
But Monday’s Emmy Awards, basically a repeat of the CCA with the same people and similar nominations, could face headwinds.
Now there will be two back to back games on Monday, potentially soaking up a huge part of the TV audience.. The much anticipated Eagles vs. Buccaneers game on Monday starts at the same time as the Emmy Awards. The Eagles are heavy favorites. So are “Succession” and “The Bear” in drama and comedy, but who knows? Also, the Emmys were voted on last summer for a season that’s already been usurped in many cases by a succeeding one — meaning they aren’t really current. In the case of “The Bear,” for example, the voting was for their first season, not the second one that’s already played.
Acts of God are not in the Nielsen playbook. so stay tuned, especially for the CCA on Sunday which has all the movie and the TV stars and the very funny and smart Chelsea Handler as host.
