The Oscars are going to begin a whopping 30 minutes earlier, still last for an eternity

The interminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and “SPEECHABLE MOMENTS” back a whole half-hour earlier. 

Despite the drama in 2017 with wrong envelopes and the wrong name announced and all that fun stuff, the show was still very, very, very long.

So, in an effort to throw us all a bone, the Oscars announced Monday morning that they are going to kick-off at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT for the March 4, 2018 edition of the awards show on ABC, meaning the awards show should wrap up sometime around 12:30 a.m. on March 5, 2018 for viewers on the East Coast. Read more…

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