LOS ANGELES, Jan 11 (Reuters) – About 6.3 million viewers watched the return of the Golden Globes on Comcast Corp’s (CMCSA.O) NBC community, in response to rankings information launched on Wednesday, a roughly 9% drop from the final televised ceremony two years in the past.
In 2021, 6.9 million individuals tuned in to the Hollywood awards present. The Globes weren’t televised final yr due to a variety and ethics scandal on the Hollywood International Press Affiliation (HFPA), the group that votes on the winners.
NBC’s viewership figures for Tuesday night time’s ceremony don’t embrace individuals who watched on Comcast’s Peacock streaming service.
The Globes had been pushed to a Tuesday this yr, as a substitute of the standard Sunday, so they’d not conflict with an prolonged Nationwide Soccer League season. Tuesday night time viewership is usually decrease than Sundays throughout the NFL season.
All of Hollywood’s main awards reveals have seen their TV rankings sink in recent times, together with most viewership on conventional tv.
Again in January 2020, the Globes attracted 18.3 million TV viewers. The 2021 present was hampered by COVID-19 restrictions that pressured many nominees to seem through video.
NBC agreed to air the 2023 ceremony beneath a one-year contract after HFPA diversified its membership, which had no Black journalists in 2021, and made different modifications.
Whereas TV viewership declined, the community mentioned Golden Globes content material on E! Information and NBC Digital platforms recorded almost 11 million views, a 54% enhance from 2021.
Main Hollywood stars turned out for the occasion as Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical story “The Fabelmans” and darkish Irish comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” gained prime awards.
The present acquired combined critiques from TV critics. Some praised the unfastened, alcohol-fueled ambiance that has turn out to be a trademark of the Globes. A number of winners acknowledged they’d been consuming.
“The speeches had been stem-winding and sometimes unusual, and the sense of event was alternatingly grave and buoyant in that good Globes means,” wrote Daniel D’Addario of Selection.
Others mentioned the Globes didn’t justify their existence.
“We had been higher off with out them,” mentioned Kelly Lawler of USA Right this moment.
“At a time when rankings for awards reveals are crumbling, when the TV and movie industries are going by main upheaval and when variety and inclusion efforts in Hollywood are nowhere close to undertaking their targets, the Globes now not really feel as if they’ve a spot,” Lawler added.
Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Enhancing by Alistair Bell and Jonathan Oatis
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