Golden Globes Gets Sky-High Ratings After Network Change, Negative Reception

This 12 months’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 combined critiques — however this system had 9.4 million complete viewers, in line with Nielsen rankings, which is up 50% from 2023’s occasion.

Final 12 months’s present, hosted by Jerrod Carmichael on NBC, solely reached 6.3 million viewers, and that was down from the 12 months earlier than that.

This 12 months’s present additionally streamed on Paramount+, and immediately turned the platform’s second-largest live-streamed particular ever … and was reportedly the most important live-streaming viewers for CBS since final 12 months’s Grammy Awards.

After all, the change from NBC to CBS wasn’t the one shift — the Hollywood International Press misplaced possession of the Golden Globes final 12 months after touchdown in sizzling water over an absence of variety.

There are a number of 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 realize, people negatively chimed in on-line about Jo Koy‘s job as this 12 months’s host, which included a dig at the NFL for its fixed protection of Taylor at Travis Kelce‘s video games.