Yahoo Lifestyle Golden Globes Audience on Par With 2024’s 4-Year High (Updated)
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was nearly as Pope-ular as the one before.
The Nielsen numbers are now in, and Sunday evening’s Nikki Glaser-hosted telecast averaged 9.3 million total viewers, down just 2% from last year’s four-year high.
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This year’s Globes were similarly steady in the 18-49 demo (with a 1.8 rating), and in fact saw gains with the 25-54 crowd (up 3%, to a 2.3 rating).
CBS on Monday afternoon had reported an audience of 10.1 million viewers (opposite a well-watched Sunday Night Football season finale on NBC), though with the Eye Network and Nielsen still embroiled in a contract dispute, that tally was furnished by <checks notes> VideoAmp Overnight Data, so any year-over-year growth was not quite measurable. Until now.
TVLine readers gave Glaser’s opening monologue an average grade of “A-,” and early signs point to the comedienne getting tapped to emcee again next year.
Last year’s ceremony — which also benefitted from an NFL doubleheader lead-in, and was hosted by, um, Jo Koy — drew 9.4 million viewers, which marked a 50 percent surge vs. Jerrod Carmichael in 2023.
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This year’s biggest TV winner was FX’s Shōgun, which secured four total awards in the three-hour-plus broadcast: Best Female Actor in a Drama (Anna Sawai), Best Male Actor in a Drama (Hiroyuki Sanada), Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role (Tadanobu Asano), and Best Drama Series.
Also winning big in the TV categories were Hacks and Baby Reindeer. The Jean Smart-led comedy won for Best Musical or Comedy Series and Best Female Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Meanwhile, Netflix’s riveting dramedy/thriller Baby Reindeer picked up awards for Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Made-for-TV Movie in addition to Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Jessica Gunning.
(Golden Globes producer dick clark productions is owned by a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation, TVLine’s parent company.)
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