The new ABC entertainment president is trying to look at the upside of the whole Oscar brouhaha.
People really care, she told reporters during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif.
I was actually at thenominee luncheonTuesday.
It was a very exciting room to be in.
The list of presenters is phenomenal and growing.
In no time in history have three movies that have each grossed over $200 million have been nominated.
There is going to be a big turnout for this.
There was an idea to just have presenters do the Oscars.
We all got on board with that quickly.
The main goal that the academy promised ABC last year was to keep the show to three hours.
Producers decided to not have a host and to go back to having presenters being stars.
Thats the best way to keep the show to a brisk three hours.
Burke, a former top exec at Freeform, only joined ABC two months ago.
She replaced Channing Dungey, who ended up going to Netflix.
