Tony Soprano and The Tony Awards...

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:20pm

It seems more people are interested in The Sopranos than in The Tony Awards, except for the 2 friends that watched the Tonys with me, I don't know of anyone who has watched them, I haven't even heard a word about the Tonys, it wasn't even announced on the news or on the msn newspage or yahoo, or aol.

It's frustrating the lack of advertisement or interest.

[Clarinetbiter135]

Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:26pm

oh... the joys of tivo

[jewelchk]

Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:51pm

Well, I know of three (three!) Tony's parties that happened and two Tony's bar nights (crazy!). That probably brought the viewership up to about 25 people.

I actually noticed the complete lack of newspaper coverage today when I was on the subway and people had all the papers out. I looked in the NYC Metro, and it had a tag on a picture of Duncan Sheik that the Tonys ended too late for press time and there would be more coverage tomorrow.

Front page stories about Tony Soprano abounded, though. Maybe the papers just didn't want them to compete! That could explain the lack of coverage too! As opposed to lack of interest or something.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 6/11/07 at 9:52pm

Oh the joys of not having cable...therefore not haivng a choice.



(That being said, if I had one, it would have been "The Sopranos".)

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/11/07 at 10:24pm

Maybe the ratings were low because people get together to watch the Tonys, is that a possibility?

[Katurian2]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 3:30pm

People do the same for the Oscars and the Superbowl, yet those ratings never suffer. Nope. The Tonys just got throughly whacked by "The Sopranos".

[Virgo]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:16pm

The Tony's can't possibly get the ratings of the Oscar's and the Superbowl ratings are out of the question for ANY show. Tony's aren't advertised and promoted like the Oscar's are. CBS didn't do much advertising of the program either, it looks like they saved all of their advertisement for during the telecast. Now, had they advertised like they did between the breaks of the tony's about a week leading up to the tony's, it might have help ratings.

However, the Radio City Music Hall" had a packed house and it holds about 1000 more then the Kodak (where the oscars are held) so apparently someone is interested in the Tony's. but you can't expect to get ratings when the show is barely advertised. Then if it were advertised most people likely still wouldn't tune in because most don't know the actors anyway.

[istillbelieve24601]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:27pm

Time for me to bring out the classic line from the world's worst "musical" High School Musical: "We need to saveour show from people who don't know a Tony Award from Tony Soprano!" It's very ironic.

[Weez]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:33pm

Slight off-topic: I was flicking through the second Playbill Broadway Yearbook last night, and was terribly amused that 1) they featured 'High School Musical' AT ALL, 2) they quoted "we need to save our show from people who don't know the difference between a Tony award and Tony Hawk", and 3) they explained who Tony Hawk was, whereas most other publications would surely do it the other way round. Marvellous! XD

Updated On: 6/14/07 at 04:33 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:10pm

I don't know who Tony Hawk is?

[bially082]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:15pm

He's a pro skateboarder...