Disney has another factor to have fun in regards to the 76th Emmy Awards, as apparently the display may after all be again at the up and up.

This 12 months’s telecast drew 6.87M audience on ABC, consistent with early Nielsen knowledge. That’s makes it the display’s biggest target market in 3 years, up 60% from previous this 12 months, when simply 4.3M tuned in to Fox for the strike-delayed seventy fifth rite in January.

This 12 months’s viewership could also be up simply fairly in comparison to the remaining time it aired on ABC in 2020, when the peak of the pandemic necessitated no in-person target market and far off nominees, drawing 6.3M audience — which was once a report low on the time.

The Emmys have taken successful over the last a number of years, hitting rock bottom after rock bottom. Whilst the display did soar again fairly in 2021 with 7.4M audience for CBS, it was once down once more the next 12 months to any other earlier rock bottom with not up to 6M folks tuning in for the display on NBC.

There are probably a couple of explanation why this 12 months noticed an uptick in audience. The display was once on a Sunday evening once more. January’s rite came about on a Monday, even though that in reality hasn’t mattered a lot in the previous couple of years for the reason that display has been on any such steep decline. Actually, this 12 months’s viewership remains to be less than the ten.17M audience who watched the remaining Monday rite on NBC in 2018.

January’s rite additionally suffered from being sandwiched between more than one award presentations, together with the Golden Globes and the Critics Selection Awards, the place The Undergo, Pork and Succession swept the highest awards at they all, making the display a lot more predictable for audience. Now that the Emmys are again to kicking off the award season (and Succession was once out of the operating) there was once a rejuvenated pleasure in regards to the possible winners.

As at all times, the Emmys nonetheless needed to move up towards the NFL, with NBC’s primetime Houston Texans vs. Chicago Bears matchup as difficult festival. The Emmys had been additionally beat by way of 60 Mins, which was once the highest non-sports program of the evening with 10.2M audience.

FX was once indisputably the evening’s greatest winner, with The Undergo profitable 4 awards and Shōgun extending a report Emmy 12 months, profitable Exceptional Drama Sequence and 3 different trophies Sunday evening to steer all techniques. HBO controlled an dissatisfied in comedy, in spite of a down 12 months for the community, as Hacks took the Exceptional Comedy Sequence award.