The 2026 Golden Globes on Sunday averaged 8.66 million viewers throughout folks watching on CBS in keeping with numbers shared from Nielsen, representing a roughly 7 p.c drop from final 12 months when Nielsen stated the Globes averaged 9.3 million viewers, although Dick Clark Productions, which produces the present, had reported the Globes averaged 10.1 million viewers.
It was comic Nikki Glaser’s second 12 months in a row internet hosting the Golden Globes ceremony, now in its 83rd 12 months, in addition to the awards present’s third 12 months on CBS (it will likely be there by 2030). Nonetheless, it additionally moved to a slot on the second weekend of January relatively than proper on the prime of the brand new 12 months, which sadly put it reverse playoff soccer on NBC, maybe contributing to the decline 12 months over 12 months. It’s additionally the second 12 months the Globes dipped in viewers after Jo Koy hosted the present in 2024.
Glaser’s monologue notched 14 million views throughout social media within the final 36 hours, and it has 3.7 million views on YouTube.
Dick Clark Productions, which owns and produces the Golden Globes, is a Penske Media firm. PMC can also be IndieWire’s guardian firm.
The 2026 awards acknowledged “Hamnet” and “One Battle After One other” within the Finest Movement Image races, and it went off the extra anticipated beat and path by rewarding some deeper minimize actor and actress contenders, together with Rose Byrne for “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Wagner Moura for “The Secret Agent,” Stellan Skarsgard for “Sentimental Worth,” and Teyana Taylor for “One Battle After One other.”
IndieWire’s TV critic stated the present at its finest this 12 months received out of its personal method with some brief however stable intros, and allowed for some nice speeches from a couple of winners like Rhea Seehorn who appeared genuinely shocked to be up there, however the present on a complete lacked “pizzazz” and didn’t have the “occasion” ambiance that hosts like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler used to domesticate.
“It was a starry present (because it needs to be), albeit one with no character — which can not matter to common audiences within the right here and now, however appears downright odd to veteran viewers and will spell hassle down the road,” critic Ben Travers wrote in his assessment.
This 12 months’s Globes for the primary time acknowledged the 12 months’s finest stand-up comedy particular, which went to former Globes host Ricky Gervais for his particular “Mortality,” and the 12 months’s finest podcast, which was awarded to “Good Hold with Amy Poehler” on Spotify. The nonetheless comparatively new award for Cinematic and Field Workplace achievement this 12 months went to Ryan Coogler’s movie “Sinners.”
