Oscars 2024 Ceremony to Start One Hour Earlier, Special ‘Abbott Elementary’ Episode Will Follow Telecast
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The Oscars will start one hour earlier for the first time. To ensure the show wraps within primetime hours, the Academy announced this year’s telecast, set to air live on Sunday, March 10, will be programmed from 7 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. PT. A 30-minute pre-show will once again lead into the live ceremony, but slide down to slide down to 6:30 p.m.
ET/3:30 p.m. PT. Immediately following the ceremony, ABC will air a new episode of its Emmy-winning comedy series, “Abbott Elementary.” (It’s got to be an Oscars-themed episode, right?) Because the network optimistically expects the telecast to end at 10:30 p.m.
ET/7:30 PT, this will allow for “Abbott Elementary” to round out the evening before local news in the Eastern and Central time zones.
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