I enjoy the whole thing, the red carpet, the awards show and the staying up until 4am to watch it. So you can imagine my annoyance this year when I found that not one UK channel would be broadcasting the Globes. My first port of call was E!, who always reliably broadcast the red carpet. And it was there, starting at nine PM. Assured by this, I began to rifle through the TV guide, looking for the actual ceremony. Pages and pages went by and still there was nothing. I looked to twitter, doing a quick search to see if anybody knew which channel it would be on. I was met with hundreds of disgruntled tweets from people who seemed equally as confused as me, all saying that no UK TV channels had picked up the show.
Now, I'm all for variety of entertainment and TV appealing to multiple audiences and such, but it seems absolutely laughable that UK television will gladly broadcast an oversized fishtanks full of people who barely scraped the title of "celebrity" a decade ago (never mind in 2015!) living together (looking at you, "Celebrity" Big Brother) and endless loops of reality shows, game shows and documentaries about people who have seven foreheads, but they will not broadcast the Golden Globes.
Perhaps the worst part about it all is the fact that so many British people were nominated this year. It's a big year for British film, a part of the film industry that often struggles to make impact worldwide. So it seems like if the UK were going to broadcast the Globes (which they have been doing for several years now) it'd be now. But instead, I was left trawling the internet for streams at 8:57pm and missing the opening monologue by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, which is perhaps the greatest injustice of all.
I know it seems like I'm just kind of bitching at British TV networks here, but then again...
