The new ABC entertainment president, Kerry Burke, is looking at the whole controversy surrounding the 2019 Oscars and the award ceremony going on air without a host in a rather positive way. Kerry Burke in her first appearance in front of the reporters on Tuesday talked about Kevin Hart's departure from the hosting job for the award ceremony. She called his departure a boon to the Oscars because it has kept them 'in the conversation', reported Entertainment Weekly.

"It's really compelling. People really care," she told the reporters during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California.