LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Ricky Gervais Host may have disabled members of the public and critics, Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, but viewers appeared on, watching the show in more than a year ago.
Golden Globes, an annual film and TV Awards in Hollywood, drew just under 5 million total viewers NBC network, which was slightly up from 2010 when British comedy Gervais, who is known for its acerbic sense of humor, hosted for the first time, according to audience figures released on Monday.
Ceremony last year grew by 14 percent in 2009 to about 15 million viewers, and the trend shows that the TV broadcast is recovering a bit from the Hollywood writers strike of 2008 which has reduced the Globes of a press conference.
However, visibility this year the exhibition 16.99 million is down from 2007, when approximately 20 million viewers tuned in to watch the parade of Hollywood stars-list up the red carpet in their finest dresses and Tuxedo and, for the lucky few, accept awards for movies, TV shows, performances and music.
Gervais ' hosting duties Sunday night has brought some often harsh criticism by reviewers. During the show, the comedian took shots at Charlie Sheen, drink and be entertained--years ago problems Robert Downey, Jr. with drugs and alcohol, the critically panned movies "The Tourist" which was nominated for best comedy and even the organizers of the exhibition.
His sense of humor on stage at the center of the ceremony was so caustic and Downey, Jr., noted on the stage that Sunday's ceremony was "unusually mean-spirited."
Many critics seemed to agree. Los Angeles Times TV critic Mary McNamara wrote on Monday that "it quickly became clear that his material was not just fall flat, was doing many audience members and presenters uncomfortable and even angry."
Washington Post reviewer Hank Stuever wrote, "Somehow Gervais has lost some of its ability to be fun to be true".
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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