The 2024 Golden Globe Awards have found a TV home for 2024 at CBS.
The 81st edition of the awards show will air Sunday, January 7 from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/ 5 to 8 p.m. PT on the broadcast network immediately after an NFL on CBS doubleheader. Stations in the Pacific time zone that air the three-hour show live will also rebroadcast the entire telecast in primetime immediately following the live presentation.
The event will also stream on Paramount+ and be available on the CBS app as part of a new deal between CBS and the Golden Globes.
Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner are the executive-producing showrunners of the 81st Annual Golden Globes via White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will also direct the telecast. Dick Clark Productions will produce.
The deal brings the Golden Globes back to CBS for the first time since 1982 when the Eye network dropped the telecast over concerns that the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had awarded a “New Star of the Year” prize to Pia Zadora.
The win has become a bit of Globes lore, as it was widely believed at the time that HFPA members had been influenced to vote for her thanks to the lavish trips and gifts they were provided. The HFPA never quite shook that reputation over the years, and that kind of concern remained up through 2021. That’s when an L.A. Times expose over the organization’s ethics (and concerns over a lack of a diverse membership) triggered an overhaul of the HFPA — which eventually dissolved and sold the Globes to Eldridge Industries (and later, a joint venture between Eldridge and Dick Clark Prods.)
But in between, the Globes managed to revive itself — first via TNT, where the kudocast ran from 1989 to 1995, and then via a deal with NBC that put the show back on broadcast in 1996.
From there, it shot to great heights and became the second most-watched awards show on television, only behind the Oscars. That eventually led to a big bucks license fee with NBC, worth a reported $60 million a year. Until the bottom fell out in 2021, and NBC declined to run the broadcast in 2022.
This past year, NBC agreed to a one-year deal to air one more Globes. But after that, the awards show was back on the market.
According to sources, CBS had initially passed on picking up the Globes, as had Amazon Prime Video and Netflix (which is focused this year on its new deal to televise the SAG Awards).
Others were believed to have offered low-ball license fees. NBC, meanwhile, hadn’t shut the door all the way on bringing the Globes back but already had an NFL Sunday Night Football game on Jan. 7 — the night that the Globes had confirmed for the 2024 ceremony.
This is a landmark year for the Globes, as it marks the first ceremony since Dick Clark Prods. and Eldridge Industries acquired the awards show’s assets, rights, and properties from the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. (Variety parent PMC owns Dick Clark Prods. in a joint venture with Eldridge.)
It also comes following a major overhaul of the Globes’ management team and its membership body, including those who vote on the awards.
Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne was joined in August by former Variety editor Tim Gray, who now serves as executive vice president at the organization. Together, the two have been charged with evolving the entity — and in time for this year’s voting.
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