The Golden Globe Awards drew a mean of 9.3 million audience for CBS on Sunday evening, a modest decline from remaining 12 months, in line with Nielsen.
The excellent news for the Globes is that the award display, on lifestyles enhance now not way back, has controlled to forestall the bleeding. Final 12 months’s rite drew 9.4 million audience, the primary 12 months it had broadcast on CBS.
Alternatively, the rankings are a long way from the Globes’s target market of 20 million or so audience it drew within the 2010s. Scores for the Globes plummeted after the pandemic and numerous self-inflicted scandals that had just about killed off the development totally.
The Globes additionally had ambitious pageant on Sunday. NBC broadcast the common season finale of “Sunday Evening Soccer” between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings, which attracted greater than 25 million audience, Nielsen mentioned.
The award display’s slight decline stands by contrast with different primary are living occasions, that have typically been rising. The Oscars have had 3 consecutive years of viewership enlargement, as is the case with the Grammys. (Each will probably be put again to the check once more quickly — the Grammys will air on CBS on Feb. 2, and the Oscars go back to ABC on March 2.) Viewership additionally higher for the Emmy Awards in September.
Critics gave Sunday’s telecast prime marks. The New York Instances critic Jason Zinoman praised the rite’s host, Nikki Glaser, for her “stellar monologue,” and Selection said the display regained “its chaotic glory.” The critiques had been significantly kinder than remaining 12 months’s broadcast when critics panned the development, and the display’s host, Jo Koy.
On Sunday, Globes citizens passed awards out to numerous movies, however “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez” took most sensible honors. The tv awards had been slightly ho-hum, with “Shogun,” “Hacks” and “Child Reindeer” taking the highest awards, simply as they’d on the Emmys in September.
Winners and presenters avoided third-rail political topics on Sunday, together with the incoming Trump management, a departure from previous Globes ceremonies.
Nielsen rankings weren’t made to be had to the general public on Monday, as is the standard protocol after a significant are living match. In most cases, networks order up initial Nielsen rankings for a price the day after a are living match, after which unlock the figures (and looking to put a good spin on them) on their very own.
However Paramount, CBS’s father or mother corporate, has been mired in a monthslong contract dispute with Nielsen, the business’s longtime go-to provider of rankings information. CBS now not has get right of entry to to Nielsen’s rankings figures, and Nielsen equipped the overall numbers to its present shoppers on Tuesday morning.
On Monday night, CBS and Dick Clark Productions, the manufacturer of the development, issued information measured by way of VideoAmp, a Nielsen rival. CBS and Dick Clark Productions mentioned that 10.1 million other folks had watched the Globes, bringing up VideoAmp and proprietary information.
