A new French Late Show, fronted by popular actor, director and writer Alain Chabat launched on France’s TF1 amid much fanfare this week in France’s latest attempt to crack the format.
07.11.2022 - 16:57 / deadline.com
The 95th Academy Awards has a host and he is no stranger to the job.
Jimmy Kimmel has been set by the Academy and ABC to return as host for the show which will be held on Sunday March 12. Executive Producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced the news this morning. This will be Kimmel’s third time at bat on the Dolby Stage for Hollywood’s biggest night of the year after previously hosting in 2017 (89th awards) and 2018 (90th awards). After the latter show which drew then-record low ratings, the broadcast went hostless in 2019, 2020, and 2021 (when the Oscars were heavily pandemic-affected and stripped down, drawing the lowest ratings ever).
Kimmel, who of course is also the star of ABC’s signature late night series, Jimmy Kimmel Live, has a unique place in Oscar history, having presided over the infamous ‘envelope-gate’ show in 2017 when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope and announced La La Land as the Best Picture winner, only to embarrassingly be corrected when one of that film’s producers grabbed the correct envelope to reveal there had been a mistake and Moonlight was the actual winner instead. It was pure mayhem and Kimmel was right there on stage in the middle of it all. He was back the next year however, and so were Beatty and Dunaway presenting Best Picture again (to The Shape Of Water), that time with no incident.
The 2017 show drew 32.9 million viewers according to the ratings, while his return stint in 2018 came in with six million fewer at 26.5. 2019’s hostless Oscars drew 29.6 viewers, but the past three years have all scored much lower, even with the return of the host format last year when the Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall fronted ceremony
A new French Late Show, fronted by popular actor, director and writer Alain Chabat launched on France’s TF1 amid much fanfare this week in France’s latest attempt to crack the format.
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