Sunday’s 2021 Emmy Awards, with the show increasing eyeballs by 16% — earning 7.4 million viewers — from last year’s ceremony, according to Deadline.
The coronavirus pandemic-hindered 2020 show only tallied an average audience of 6.4 million.However, CBS is not out of the woods yet.
The three-hour-plus show was still down 34% from the last time CBS hosted the ceremony in 2017. The 7.4 million figure is also just the number available for the linear broadcast alone.
No DVR or Paramount+ streaming numbers have been released as of yet.Sunday night’s show was the third-least-watched ceremony behind 2020 (an all-time low) and 2019.
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