Golden Globes Will get Sky-Excessive Rankings After Community Change, Unfavourable Reception

This yr’s Golden Globes ceremony had far more eyes on it in comparison with years previous … this regardless of a unfavourable response to elements of the ceremony, and altering TV networks.

Sunday’s televised occasion, which aired on CBS for the primary time, was hit with some blended critiques — however this system had 9.4 million complete viewers, based on Nielsen rankings, which is up 50% from 2023’s occasion.

Final yr’s present, hosted by Jerrod Carmichael on NBC, solely reached 6.3 million viewers, and that was down from the yr earlier than that.

This yr’s present additionally streamed on Paramount+, and immediately grew to become the platform’s second-largest live-streamed particular ever … and was reportedly the biggest live-streaming viewers for CBS since final yr’s Grammy Awards.

After all, the change from NBC to CBS wasn’t the one shift — the Hollywood Overseas Press misplaced possession of the Golden Globes final yr after touchdown in scorching water over an absence of variety.

There are just a few potential explanations for the rise — the large field workplace success of movies like “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and Taylor Swift‘s ‘The Eras Tour’ … the Taylor issue itself, and the very fact NFL video games on CBS instantly preceded the Globes.

As you recognize, of us negatively chimed in on-line about Jo Koy‘s job as this yr’s host, which included a dig at the NFL for its fixed protection of Taylor at Travis Kelce‘s video games.