The official Nielsen fast national ratings for the 96th Academy Awards came a bit later than usual Monday afternoon, but, in general, it was good news for AMPAS and its broadcast network ABC. This year’s Oscars telecast drew an average of 19.5 million viewers. That was up by 700,000 over last year’s 18.8 million. The program peaked in the final half-hour (10:00-10:29 PM ET) with 21.9 million viewers.

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In less great news, the show earned a 3.81 rating among adults 18-49.

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Though it’s getting harder than ever to measure ratings in the streaming era, that doesn’t stop rating trackers like Nielsen from trying. For the first time since Nielsen launched a weekly streaming top 10 list late this summer, Netflix has some competition in the form of Amazon‘s “The Boys.”

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According to Nielsen (via Forbes), “The Boys” came in at number three of the top 10 streaming shows this week, with 891 million minutes watched.

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Coming into the 2018 Oscars, the Academy and the ABC Network had every reason to believe that this year would be a huge success. After the Best Picture fiasco from 2017, the buzz around the 2018 ceremony was greater than it had been in previous years. Also, on top of last year’s controversy, there was a returning host, Jimmy Kimmel, that’s generally popular, and a list of nominated films that were arguably the strongest in years.

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