Who do you have in the Oscar pool? No — not who do you think will win Best Actress or what will win Best Picture — how far down do you think the audience tally will drop? Twenty twenty-one has pulled the red carpet out from under the usual award show season. The Golden Globes
You wonder how much longer broadcast networks are going to keep carrying The Golden Globes and other award shows. Until recently, award shows have been a guaranteed win atop a weekly ratings chart. The 2021 Globes, however, barely beat out an episode of Young Sheldon for fifth place in the Numeris tally of the Feb.
The Golden Globes has long been dismissed as a Fake Awards show, run by an elite mob of elusive hacks who give statues out to the highest bidders. That hasn’t stopped viewers from tuning in each year — in fact, The Globes viewership has stayed steady while Oscar and Emmy viewership has seen steep declines
What did I think of the nominations announced this week for the 78th Annual Golden Globe awards? First, I was happy to see The Queen’s Gambit and brilliant young Anya Taylor-Joy get nominated. Same with The Flight Attendant and Kaley Cuoco. More award show love for Schitt’s Creek? Bring it on. I was surprised Rhea
There’s been a lot of nit picking over the past two days about the nominees for the upcoming Golden Globes awards. I think people are missing the point. This is an awards show in name only. It is a TV special, and the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are basically all in on
You may only know Ricky Gervais as the pissy host of the Golden Globes, or the jerky boss from the original Office. Now, in his incredibly dark, smart new comedy After Life, Gervais challenges audiences with a next-level, complicated jerk – more mature, a bit more sensitive, and totally irresistible. After Life is the story of a
Sunday’s 76th Annual Golden Globes was truly a star-studded affair. Too bad the opening monologue was such a bust. Co-hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh (above) walked on stage at the Beverly Hilton and performed what seemed like the worst Saturday Night Live sketch ever. Smug irony just doesn’t sell anymore in 2019, not with
Tired of coming here and being forced to read? Want to simply hear me yakking about television in the background while you goof off at home or at work? Here’s a link to a radio interview I did earlier this week with news anchor Sheldon MacLeod at Halifax’s News 95.7. Sheldon broke the news to