Why the Oscars should be extremely long

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"My general sense, as an outside observer, is that the people in charge of producing and broadcasting the Oscars do not actually like the Oscars," says Matt Singer, pointing out all the bad ideas to make the Oscar telecast shorter, including limiting the original song performances to two. "With all of these various attempts to shorten the Oscars, the Academy is chasing an audience that doesn’t exist," he says. "There is no potential viewer out there wondering what to do on the night of Sunday, February 24 and thinking to themselves 'Well I don’t particularly like movies, and don’t really care which of them win awards, so I wasn’t going to tune in buuuuuuuut now that I know the show will run three hours flat instead of three hours and 15 minutes, I’m definitely going to watch!'" He also says the Oscars also shouldn't have cut down on awards during the telecast, as well as cutting off acceptance speeches. ALSO: Why the Oscars really needs a  host this year.