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The Host-less Oscars Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:09:52 PM EST
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The Oscars are host-less this year. I think ratings, which haven't been good in recent years, will be even worse tonight.

Have any of you seen any of the movies that are up for awards?

Here's a place to discuss the Oscars if you're watching.

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    I like the no host thing (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:18:31 PM EST
    What does the host do really.

    I hope it's a trend.

    It's a good year for clothes (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:20:01 PM EST


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    I, too, like the no host (none / 0) (#21)
    by caseyOR on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 08:22:53 PM EST
    Oscars. I hope this becomes the norm.

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    Looks we are not alone (none / 0) (#47)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 05:06:35 PM EST
    Yet, up 12% in viewers and 13% in the key demo over the 2018 Jimmy Kimmel fronted show, the 2019 Oscars are the most watched non-sports show on all of TV since the 32.9 million who tuned in for the 2017 Oscars



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    Spike Lee was too weird for me, (5.00 / 1) (#59)
    by fishcamp on Tue Feb 26, 2019 at 12:06:28 PM EST
    And I do weird quite well.

    Trying to get to watch through Locast (none / 0) (#2)
    by scribe on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:19:21 PM EST
    which supposedly streams over-the-air broadcasts for free (and has not yet drawn the ire of the networks).

    I'm staying in an airbnb with no TV but with wifi.  

    Well, I'm in one of the Big Cities it supposedly serves, but it tells me I'm not in the continental United States and therefore they don't have rights to show me anything.
    And it takes forever to load - which might be a function of everyone wanting to watch something and gagging their servers, or it might be a function of me taking their "free" at face value and declining to "donate" anything to them.

    Let me know how this turns out - I have an early wakeup and won't mess with trying to watch much longer.

    And that guy with the velvet tuxedo gown?  Never heard of him before.  Probably killed his career with that getup but it'll be a slow death, not sudden.  Still, it seems to have been a good look.  Not one I could pull off, but still.

    That was Billy Porter (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:22:46 PM EST
    I don't think his career will suffer.

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    I wish him well (none / 0) (#6)
    by scribe on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:26:41 PM EST
    Only time will tell. ... Friday morning, Robert Kraft was on top of the football world and now he's got a warrant out for him in Florida (and at home in Mass.).  Things can change quickly.

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    That was conservative (none / 0) (#9)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:31:21 PM EST
    compared to his globes thing

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    To hell with locast. (none / 0) (#5)
    by scribe on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:24:46 PM EST
    I'm going to switch back to German radio and the ARD Nachtkonzert, through Bavarian Radio, which they gladly stream to the world for free.
    Better music and no idiot commentators/hosts.

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    Locast... (none / 0) (#43)
    by ScottW714 on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    ... "has not yet drawn the ire of the networks" nor will it because of the very issue you are having, that you are not local.

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    Online (none / 0) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:26:42 PM EST
    oscars

    I hope (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Feb 24, 2019 at 07:29:04 PM EST
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