The Jimmy Fallon-hosted 74th annual Golden Globes hit the show’s best ratings in three years on Sunday night, averaging 20 million viewers and a 5.6 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen Media Research’s final overnight ratings.
That’s up 8 percent among viewers and 2 percent among adults 18-49 from 2016, and gives the Globes the honor of being the only awards show other than the 2016 Tonys, to be up year to year. Likely providing an assist was that the Globes wasn’t up against any NFL competition, with Sunday night’s game on Fox wrapping before 8 pm ET when the Globes started.
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After trophies were handed out to AMC, FX and Netflix predominantly among the TV players, the drama kept on playing out, with President-elect Trump targeting Meryl Streep in his regular early-morning tweet storm.
Streep gave a politically-loaded speech upon accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, expressing her heartbreak over the election of Trump, whom she never named, particularly over what she viewed as him mocking of a disabled reporter while on the campaign trail.
“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back,” Streep said. “It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”
Trump responded on Twitter that Streep was “one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood.”
He also defended his behavior to the reporter, the New York Times’ Serge F. Kovaleski, saying that he would never mock a disabled person but was merely revealing that the reporter changed a negative story he had written about Trump 16 years ago.
Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never “mocked” a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him…....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
“groveling” when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
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[Image of Jimmy Fallon courtesy of NBC via The Hollywood Reporter]
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