The biggest night in movies, hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, drew 41.3 million total viewers to the Alphabet Network on Sunday. It was the largest audience since 2005, the year Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby” was the big winner, according to the Nielsen folks.
Locally, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) also had its biggest Oscar numbers in five years. About 927,000 metro Detroit viewers tuned in to watch Kathryn Bigelow become the first woman to win the best director prize and her little seen but acclaimed film “The Hurt Locker” take best picture honors from sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar.”
The special “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show that aired after the Oscars drew an impressive 4.7 million viewers to ABC. It was Kimmel’s third-highest-rated show ever, coming in behind two post-Super Bowl shows.
• Fallout from the Oscars arrived Monday from Taiji, Japan, the fishing village featured in the winning documentary “The Cove,” which offers a grisly look at dolphin hunting. Village leaders see the film as an attack on their culture by biased foreigners.
• Oscar red carpet cohost Kathy Ireland is assuring fans via Twitter that she wasn’t drunk or heavily medicated Sunday night. The speculation began after she served up some clumsy pre-Oscar interviews.
• Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur and Ed McMahon were excluded from the in-memoriam segment at the Oscars. “We unfortunately don’t include everyone each year,” Leslie Unger, spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, told radaronline.com.
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• After a couple of delays, Dwayne (Lil Wayne) Carter was sentenced Monday to a year in jail in New York City. The sentence stems from a July 2007 weapons possession case.
• Renowned English tenor Philip Langridge, 70, died Friday in England from cancer.
• Family and friends gathered Monday in Utah to pay respects to Marie Osmond’s 18-year son, Michael Bryan, who took his life Feb. 26, People reports.
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