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    Emmy Awards get record low ratings with audience of 4.3 million people

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    Chandra Wilson, from left, Justin Chambers, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, and James Pickens Jr., present the award for outstanding supporting actor in a limited anthology series or movie during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

    By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    The Emmy Awards telecast on Fox reached a record low audience of 4.3 million viewers, as the long-term trend of diminishing ratings for the show continues.

    The Nielsen company said Tuesday that the Monday night show hosted by Anthony Anderson with "Succession" and "The Bear" raking in most of the top awards was down from the previous record low of 5.9 million for NBC's telecast in 2022, the last time the event was held.

    This year's Emmys had a lot working against them. They were was delayed four months from its usual September spot by Hollywood's writers and actors strikes, and had to compete with both an NFL playoff game and coverage of the Iowa caucuses in the presidential campaign.

    The audience was less than half of what the CBS telecast of the Golden Globes got eight days earlier. That show, which honored both TV and movies and had bigger stars in attendance including Taylor Swift, had 9.4 million viewers.

    The Emmys and Anderson got generally positive reviews for a show that spent much of its time honoring past television, with reunions and set recreations from shows including "Cheers," "Martin" and "Grey's Anatomy." Variety called it "delightful" while The Hollywood Reporter praised its "polish, proficiency and emotion."

    But that didn't help the continuing decline in numbers.

    The height-of-the-pandemic Emmys in 2020 on ABC, with no in-person audience and remote nominees, set a new low at the time with 6.1 million viewers, but the show bounced back the following year with 7.4 million for CBS.

    Then the decline began again in 2022.

    The four broadcast networks rotate airings of the show.

    The last time the Emmys reached more than 10 million viewers was 2018, when it drew in 10.2 million. The show had 21.8 million viewers in 2000, a level it's unlikely ever to reach again.

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    Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies at 73

    Friday, December 12, 2025
    In this photo provided by Film at Lincoln Center, filmmaker Christine Choy attends a screening of her film, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" at the 59th New York Film Festival in 2021. (Dan Rodriguez/Film at Lincoln Center via AP)

    Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73.

    Choy died Sunday, according to a statement from JT Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, a filmmaking collective Choy helped establish in the 1970s. No cause of death was given.

    "She was a prolific filmmaker who made significant films that helped form our Asian American and American film history," Takagi said on the organization's website.

    Chin, a Chinese American who grew up in Detroit, was celebrating his bachelor party in 1982 when two white auto workers attacked him. At that time, Japanese auto companies were being blamed for job losses in the U.S. auto manufacturing industry. The attackers were motivated by their assumption Chin was Japanese. His death and the lack of prison time for the two assailants is considered a galvanizing moment for Asian Americans fighting anti-Asian hate.

    Renee Tajima-Peña, co-director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," met Choy around 1980 through Third World Newsreel. They decided to collaborate on a documentary a year after Chin's death after seeing how little coverage it received.

    Tajima-Peña recalls bonding with Choy and other crew during freezing Detroit winter nights while waiting for witnesses in Chin's death and evenings spent with Chin's mother's over home-cooked meals.

    "We were in constant motion during the production with Chris always the picture of cool — sunglasses, stylishly slim, cigarette in hand. And yes she was brash and outspoken — her cigarettes may have had filters but her language didn't," Tajima-Peña said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday. "But, her... Read More

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