PASADENA, Calif.(AP) — The CW television network chief offered a strong vote of confidence Sunday to the slow-to-catch-on comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” only hours before actress Rachel Bloom’s Golden Globe award […]
Streaming services, cable networks and broadcasters all won trophies Sunday, but not the three best-known networks in the business — CBS, ABC or NBC.
The NBC Owned Television Stations will kick off the 2016 awards season with a weekend full of programming dedicated to celebrating Hollywood’s golden night, the Golden Globe Awards. The NBC […]
You can count on the Golden Globes to throw a few curveballs when it comes to television, and this year’s nominations were no exception.
Annually the first awards show to tap many series, its affections frequently gravitate towards newcomers and non-traditional outlets. This year is no exception. In addition to showering Netflix with the most nominations of any TV player, Amazon scored for more than just Transparent and Hulu even broke through with a best comedy mention for Casual.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bad boy Ricky Gervais is set to notch his fourth turn as host of the Golden Globe Awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced […]
Exclusives
The Golden Globes’ night of underdogs included wins for Amazon’s comedy about a transgender woman, a rookie Latina actress (Gina Rodriguez) who just learned Sunday that her show had been picked up for a second season, a new Showtime series about a marriage undermined by a torrid affair and the television remake of the movie Fargo. In all, three Globes went to streaming services, three to basic cable networks, three to premium cable networks, one to public broadcasting and one to the tiny CW broadcast network. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox were shut out.
The Golden Globes were announced Thursday morning and HBO programs and actors were responsible for 15 nominations, with two-thirds of them in the movie or miniseries category. Showtime, meanwhile, has supplanted HBO in critical eyes as the home of more highly regarded regular series. Eight of Showtime’s nine nominations were for programs or actors in series
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may have wrapped up Golden Globes hosting duties indefinitely. Sunday’s awards show, hosted by the former Saturday Night Live stars, posted its best rating in seven years. The show averaged a 14.1 household rating, according to the 56 Nielsen metered markets, marking the top rating since 2007, when the program posted a 16.0 on a Monday night. The Globes were up 8% over last year, when the show averaged a 13.1 metered-market rating.
Sunday’s Golden Globes were a big night for Universal Television, with the studio’s freshman Fox comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine scoring two surprise wins and co-host Amy Poehler taking home her first prize for NBC’s Parks and Recreation. The studio, which has made a big push to sell to networks outside of NBC, led the winners Sunday with three prizes, followed by HBO and AMC, who both nabbed two wins for Behind the Candelabra and Breaking Bad, respectively, which with Brooklyn, topped the wins by program.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have closed deals to host of the next two Golden Globe Awards, starting with the Jan. 12, 2014 ceremony. Fey and Poehler were approached about coming back over the summer, following the duo’s very successful first Golden Globes turn this year, which drew warm critical reception and big ratings.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The group behind the Golden Globes shared $1.6 million of its annual awards-show spoils with 40 nonprofit arts organizations Tuesday, but its cast of celebrity […]
The 10 stations are producing two-and-a-half hours of specials leading up to the network’s telecast at 8 p.m. A new Zeebox app will deliver enhanced, more interactive experience.
The judge had to determine whether a 1993 agreement between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions gave the production company the right to work on the Golden Globe Awards perpetually, provided it airs on NBC. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz ruled it did.
Testimony Ends In Globes Broadcast Trial
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz warned attorneys for the Globes’ organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its longtime producers that he would declare a clear winner, which could result in the Globes being tangled up on appeal for another awards season.
HFPA’s Berk Testimony Contradicts Moonves
Philip Berk, the current chairman and former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and a key witness in the organization’s legal battle against Dick Clark Productions over who controls the television rights to the Golden Globes said in court Thursday that he’s “never really been interested in contracts.”
Graboff: NBC Overpaid For Golden Globes
Marc Graboff, who until recently was NBC’s president of West Coast business operations, testified Friday that he warned his bosses at the network that the price tag for the Golden Globes, which ended up being an average of $21.5 million per show, was too high. Graboff was testifying in the legal battle over who controls the TV rights for the Golden Globes between the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which owns the Globes, and Dick Clark Productions, the longtime producer of the awards show.
When it comes to getting a television deal done, the rule is that there are no rules. That was the takeaway from Day 3 of the legal battle over who controls the television rights to the Golden Globe Awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and Dick Clark Productions — partners on the Golden Globes for almost 30 years — are fighting in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz will decide whether the awards show’s television rights will be controlled by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association or by Dick Clark Productions. The decision will alter the future of the glitzy gala and whether it will remain on NBC or, for the first time in 17 years, appear on another network.
On the TV side, awards were scattered across the landscape. While HBO and Showtime both notched three prizes, no one show was especially dominant. ABC’s Modern Family took comedy honors, while Showtime’s Homeland was deemed best drama, and PBS’s Downton Abbey took the prize for miniseries.
Golden Globe TV Noms: More Hits And Disses
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for January’s Golden Globe Awards this morning. The awards are fun as a show — I never miss them — but they’re erratic at best as a an actual award for quality. Still, the awards’ eccentricity means they sometimes throw some recognition to deserving surprise recipients, and the fact that they’re not voted on by TV-business professionals means they don’t feel obligated to throw broadcast networks a bone to give them a presence among cable nominees.
The request by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for a trial to decide who owns the show’s broadcast rights during the first week of January is opposed by the show’s longtime producer, Dick Clark Productions.
NBC announced Friday that it would air the Jan. 15 show, ending any uncertainty caused by the delay last week of a trial aimed at settling the broadcast rights dispute.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A trial to resolve a dispute over broadcast rights to the Golden Globe Awards has been delayed for at least a month. Opening statements in the […]
Dick Clark Productions and the show’s organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are locked in a federal lawsuit over who owns broadcast rights to the glitzy awards show, which draws in millions of viewers each year. The HFPA sued the production company last year claiming that it sold the broadcast rights to the show through 2018 without proper permission.
Tuesday’s ruling follows the court’s denial Monday of a motion by Dick Clark Prods. to dismiss the breach of contract suit lodged by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Among the TV awards, Fox’s Glee was the most popular kid in class, winning for best comedy series and ensuring supporting acting statuettes for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch. HBO’s Boardwalk Empire took best drama and its star Steve Buscemi won best actor in a drama.
Just a few weeks before the Golden Globe ceremony, tension is soaring between Dick Clark Productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as the telecast producer’s contract is about to expire and a lawsuit stands between the parties and a new agreement.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s suit against Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Golden Globes show, and its parent company alleges trademark infringement and breach of contract.
