Celebrities showed up in droves for Sunday’s SAG Awards, driving the first big awards show of the year (and since the pandemic) to the top of PvNew’s Trending TV chart for the week of Feb. 21 to 27. The show collected an impressive 3.6 million engagements during its broadcast on TNT and TBS, earning more than nine times that of this week’s runner-up, “Euphoria.”
The emotional and politically charged telecast doled out top prizes to projects like “CODA,” “Ted Lasso” and “Succession.” The internet also followed along as winner Will Smith (“King Richard”) teared up during his acceptance speech, Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) became the first Latina to win a film award from the Guildand the cast of “Squid Game” made history. Twitter also lit up when Michael Keaton was in the restroom when Salma Hayek announced his “Dopesick” acting win. He later delivered a tearful tribute to his late nephew.
So well deserved. Will Smith takes home his first Actor® for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role! #sagawards pic.twitter/gD6I4GTVLs
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) February 28, 2022
Jung Ho-Yeon receives her first-ever Actor® for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her role in #SquidGame #sagawards pic.twitter/PJAHCavDni
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) February 28, 2022
Michael Keaton was in the men's room when he won + RAN IN and rolled onto the stage. In case you needed another reason to love him. #SAGAwards
— Emily Longeretta (@emilylongeretta) February 28, 2022
Selena Gomez presenting barefoot, “A Star Is Born” co-stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper mingling and Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino staging a “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” reunion also resonated with Twitter users during the 28th annual show.
Nicole Kidman and Selena Gomez in barefoot at the #SAGAwards pic.twitter/l07CikN5OL
— Nicol (@nikowl) February 28, 2022
The only thing that matters today. @MiraSorvino @LisaKudrow #RomyAndMichele pic.twitter/I3TMRDFLJZ
— rob salley (@robertsalley) February 28, 2022
The Season 2 finale of HBO’s “Euphoria” also dominated Twitter chatter on Sunday night. “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” proved to be a powerful episode that played with fate while raising plenty of questions ahead of the recently ordered third season.
everyone after watching euphoria #Euphoria #EuphoriaHBOMax pic.twitter/59vQQiD2Kc
— ayrial (@ayribby) February 28, 2022
“Euphoria” has been a top contender on PvNew’s Trending TV chart throughout its Season 2 run, landing in the first or second spot each week except during the Super Bowl. The finale earned about 386,000 engagements -- the most of any scripted series this week -- but that figure was still down from last week’s penultimate episode, which drew more than 461,000 engagements.
Starz’s “Outlander” rounded out this week’s Top 3 ahead of its Season 6 premiere on March 6. Interviews with stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan, in which they teased the upcoming action while speculating about the show’s future beyond the previously renewed seventh season, helped to generate 152,773 engagements.
The anticipation is REAL! #Outlander returns in just one week. pic.twitter/QYykiroC5Z
— Outlander (@Outlander_STARZ) February 27, 2022
News of a potential prequel spinoff series also drove fan engagement. PvNew exclusively reported the news ahead of the weekend, revealing that a writers’ room — led by executive producer and showrunner Matthew B. Roberts — is assembling and preparing to kick off in the coming weeks.
Netflix’s “Inventing Anna,” which debuted in full on Feb. 11, placed fourth this week, as viewers caught on to the Julia Garner-led series, based on real-life figure Anna Delvey/Anna Sorokin. Interviews with the actual figure as well as Neff Davis (played on the series by Alexis Floyd) also helped drive traffic, although some of the 152,773 engagements included fan-shipping between Anna Delvey and “The Tinder Swindler,” Simon Leviev.
Watching Inventing Anna…and all I can think about is the sympathy she got from the reporter from the start. She stole thousands, barely spent 2 years on Riker’s & got $320,000 from Netflix for this story. Meanwhile Kaleif Browder spend 3 years there w/no trial over a backpack.
— big relly (@BigR3lly) February 27, 2022
If Simon and Anna ever met
