The Emmys vs. the Audience: Which Shows People Actually Watch
The Town with Matthew Belloni
The Ringer
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Danny Kelly and it's officially fantasy football season, which means the ringer fantasy football show is back with the latest news from around the NFL and everything you need to get ready for the fantasy football season. |
| 0:10.9 | So join us at the ringer fantasy football show on Spotify or on our new YouTube channel. |
| 0:18.5 | It is Friday, September 12th. |
| 0:22.3 | We had some news yesterday. |
| 0:25.6 | The journal reported that the Ellison family, they just bought Paramount. |
| 0:31.0 | They're now preparing a bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, as I predicted they would on this very show. |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to wait until Monday to discuss that with Lucas, our Monday, guys. |
| 0:36.4 | So tune in then for that discussion. |
| 0:38.4 | Today, it's Emmy's weekend. |
| 0:42.8 | Still a very big deal in Hollywood. Craig and I will be there on Sunday. Say hello if you see us. |
| 0:47.8 | There's always some surprises in the winners. This year, the big mystery is the drama series race between Severance and the Pitt. I actually think the pit will win that one. But today we're |
| 0:52.1 | talking about the real winners of the Emmy weekend. The reason for all the campaigning and hoopla in the first place. The viewership. |
| 0:59.3 | It's not a secret that the most popular shows are not usually the ones that win awards. |
| 1:03.6 | If so, CSI and Blue Bloods would be the Emmy Hall of Fame winners. But it does happen. Friends and |
| 1:09.9 | Seinfeld and the office all won the top |
| 1:11.8 | comedy series Emmy once. Brazier was a big player back in the day. It's a lot rare in the peak |
| 1:16.5 | TV era though, although Shogun was a pretty big hit for Hulu and it won the drama series |
| 1:21.0 | last year. Today we're going to look at some numbers and look at the Emmys from the different |
| 1:25.4 | perspective of who's watching these shows, |
| 1:28.4 | how the ratings compared to the costs of the shows and the dreaded word efficiency. |
| 1:33.5 | And maybe most important, which shows got the biggest boosts from their Emmy nominations? |
| 1:38.4 | For that, we've got Julie Alexander back on the show. |
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