Emmys 2022 hit record low with 25% drop in viewers since last year

“TV’s biggest night” of 2022 was its smallest in history.

The 74th Annual Emmy Awards on Monday, hosted by Kenan Thompson, attracted just 5.9 million viewers to NBC — a 25% decrease in viewership from last year’s awards on CBS, according to preliminary Nielsen data.

Additionally, this year’s Emmys had a 1.0 rating among adults aged 18 to 49 — the lowest score they’ve ever received among core audiences.

In constrast, the Emmys saw a 16% spike in viewership in 2021, compared to 2020’s 6.37 million viewers.

Since the advent of streaming apps, the diversity of television offered today has posed a challenge for Emmys producers, now unable to find a more cohesive audience. The last time it cracked double-digit millions was in 2018, drawing 10.2 million fans.

The show reached its highest viewership level in the year 2000 with a whopping 21.8 million viewers.

Highlights of this year’s show included “Abbott Elementary” actress Sheryl Lee Ralph’s singing Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species” during her acceptance speech, and “White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge’s chaotic, but on-brand speech, cut too short.

HBO’s “The White Lotus” cast and crew won all five of the categories for which they were nominated, but the network’s other standout, “Succession,” and “Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+, each won the night’s top categories for Outstanding Comedy and Drama series, respectively.

Thompson kicked off the show alongside backup dancers, grooving to remixes of popular TV show theme songs, including those of “Friends,” “Law & Order” and “Game of Thrones.”

The “SNL” comic later deemed history-making Emmy winner Zendaya “too old” to date Leonardo DiCaprio and slammed “Succession” for its lack of diversity later during his traditional monologue.

His “Good Burger” co-star Kel Mitchell briefly appeared for a bit at the ceremony’s bar, alongside Jason Sudeikis and Kumail Nanjiani — to the delight of, albeit few, nostalgic Millennial viewers.

See the complete winners list from the 2022 Emmy Awards here.

With Post wires.