Golden Globes shines with TV admirers boost

NEW YORK – NBC's Golden Globes advertisement shined a little brighter in the ratings this year, according to Nielsen numbers appear Monday.

"The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards" had 14 percent added admirers than aftermost year's show. The three-hour brawl won its time aperture and drew 16.9 actor viewers, assault an admirers of 14.9 actor admirers in 2009.

Originating from Los Angeles at 5 p.m. bounded time, the accident was aired alive by NBC in all time zones, rather than delayed for prime-time advertisement in the West, as in accomplished years.

But alike with the admirers upswing, viewership remained far beneath the bigger year for the show. In 2004, 26.8 actor admirers acquainted in.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association bestows the awards for achievements in television and motion pictures.

Two years ago, the awards were airtight by the Hollywood writers strike, which larboard the advertisement a carapace of itself: a laundry account of the winners apprehend aloud, bare of glitz, celebrities or ceremony. Only 6 actor admirers agitated to watch.

Sunday's appearance got a alloyed acknowledgment from critics, as did the achievement of its aboriginal host in 15 years.

"Not a abundant night for Ricky Gervais," wrote Los Angeles Times TV analyzer Mary McNamara, citation the British actor-comedian.

But she added that about every champ (with the barring of assorted "Avatar" honoree James Cameron, who, on stage, was as vocally focused on his over-full float as his trophies) displayed "an air of beholden humility."

The bashfulness that seemed to aphorism the black represented a downside for some observers, who adulation the Globes for its accepted boozed-up activity mood.

Maybe aftermost week's adverse convulsion in Haiti kept things added abstaining than usual.

"There were smiles and cher dresses and chichi jewelry," wrote The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley, "but the anniversary never absolutely got off the ground, conceivably advised bottomward by an bury of unease."

Or maybe, for bigger or worse, the Golden Globes accept gone straight.

"Perhaps it's assuredly time the Golden Globes stops cultivating a acceptability as a agrarian and bristling affair," wrote The Hollywood Reporter's Andrew Wallenstein, who alleged Sunday's appearance "leaden alike by Oscar standards, advised bottomward by decidedly bromidic hosting from Ricky Gervais."

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