No.
 

Leafs/Panthers at 7, new Island of Brian at 10 on HGTV. I keep hoping Leafs will trade for Max Domi,
so far, no luck. Sounds like he's going to happy in Raleigh, but you never know what a free agent'll do.

When I called the show the second most watched of the year, I was referring to the increasingly distant past. As recently as a decade or so ago, the Oscars telecast was considered unbeatable. So much so that all the other networks would only program reruns against it. 

This Sunday, all the competition has original, first run programming opposite Hollywood's big night. That would have been unthinkable previously. Now it's obvious they no longer see it as a threat. I have no doubt it will still do well - it's live and has lots of star power attached. But the curtain has come down on the days when the Oscars won the night handily. And I'm pretty sure it will never attain those heights again. 

I'm going to stick with my original choices for tonight -- Leafs/Panthers at 7 and the season debut of Island of Brian
at 10 on HGTV -- but add some must-watch March Madness as a lead-in.
St. Peter's is the talk of the tournament. Tonight at 5, they take on North Carolina in what, win or lose, should be
highly entertaining.
The Peacocks had me on the floor laughing the other night against Purdue, when they did something I'd never
seen before. During an early break in play, St. Peter's entire starting five left the floor while 5 substitutes casually
walked on to replace them. You know you've got a team when you can do that. Also plays with the other team's
heads.

Anytime one of these shows come on (and I almost never watch them) if I DID decide to spend my time on them, I would DVR the entire thing and start it after the first hour or so.

Skipping through the spots, the boring production numbers and the endless speeches, and I'd probably be done just as it wraps up. It's how I "watch" a lot of live events if and when I do. It's a great way to cut a three hour plus show down to about 60 minutes!

But having said that, I'd much rather watch 60 Minutes!

leaf game was much more satisfying.  never watched oscars, stopped watching grammys when metallica lost to jethro tull.  still keep an eye on the junos, but i'm getting too old to stay relevant!
 

Didn't watch it, just popped onto Twitter to get the Coles Notes version of the red carpet sillymoney, erm, ceremony and the various winners.

betaylored wrote:

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1508270575902687232?t=ELA9J5pw-r0btmVlbsVoaA&s=19

Here's Will Smith hitting Chris Rock during the Oscars tonight, this'll go down in history, guess Australian tv didn't bleep the swear words.

Pure gold for radio hosts tomorrow and into the week. 🥊

The explanation (but was it real?)

Here's the entire thing in good quality and uncensored.

Island of BRYAN!

Good thing I was in radio.

I watched "part" of the show over-the-air on WKBW.  The "best" part of the broadcast seemed to be the ads.  It seemed that William Mattar had produced some new spots for inclusion in the (local) WKBW broadcast (in the local avails).  The ads were funny, for example slot cars going off the track....and Mattar said "that's not good". and does his "hurt in a car, call William Mattar" tagline.  Another of his ads had a car go off the road - I think it was a scene from a movie....and he said, accidents are never good.  In fact he was poking fun at himself in one of the spots.  I don't think I've seen anything like that in lawyers' advertising here - 

There were some other spots that were funny.  I will concede that the some of the national spots that ran on ABC were much better than the Oscars show.  Sometimes advertisers splurge on spots, for the big broadcast - not unlike the superbowl advertising.  It was refreshing to see "real" products advertised on ABC as opposed to the repetitive non-stop gambling websites that litter Canadian television.  My wife screams at the TV every time "Shae-Lynn Noyes" shows up on the split-screen during free-throws during Raptors games, where Ms. Noyes constantly hypes "Bet-99".  Can all of these betting and gaming sites be making money given the tonnage of their Canadian TV advertising....sorry for being off topic.   But the same Canadian betting site ad(s) over, and over and over again....it's mind numbing.   

I always find these kind of stories interesting, having been in many control rooms on too many nights where a live broadcast goes wrong. (Can you say election coverage?) Here's the behind-the-scenes tale from the Oscars, at the time of the Smith vs. Rock debacle. If only they'd had a live mic in there!

What Was Happening in the ABC Control Room as Will Smith Slapped Chris Rock

Memes on this are, of course, exploding all over the Internet. Here are two of my favourites. 

mike marshall wrote:

I keep hoping Leafs will trade for Max Domi,
so far, no luck.

Well, it’s about time!