Ratings for the 2023 Golden Globes ceremony are in and this year’s show is down 26% from the 2021 ceremony.
Although the Globes historically airs on Sunday nights and typically has an NFL intro, NBC’s primetime Tuesday telecast of the awards ceremony drew an average of 6.3 million viewers and scored a audience rating of 1.1 in the 18-49 demo, according to Nielsen data.
The awards ceremony returned to NBC this year after last year’s ceremony was not televised as a result of the controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the embattled organization behind the Golden Globes.
The awards ceremony ranked as the No. 1 social special event in the entire television season to date (linear and broadcast), both in terms of social interactions and social video views, while Golden Globes content jan! News platforms and NBC Digital saw nearly 11 million digital page views and video views, an increase of 54% from 2021.
The January 2020 Pre-Pandemic Globes hosted by Ricky Gervais drew 18.4 million viewers, while the 2021 Globes added 6.9 million total viewers and a 1.5 demo rating in the finals. from Nielsen.
The HFPA has been embroiled in controversy following a Los Angeles Times exposé that reported there were no black members in the HFPA, a story that host Jerrod Carmichael decided to address in a scathing monologue at the top of the ceremony.
“I’m here because I’m black,” the comedian began, before surprising audience members with comments like: “I won’t say they were racist, but they haven’t had a single black member since George Floyd died. ”
