The audience for Sunday's Golden Globes telecast declined by 2% from last year to an average of 9.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen data released on Tuesday. A year ago, the Globes, an awards ceremony for film and TV productions,

This year's Golden Globe Awards show viewership showed a slight decline compared to the previous year. The audience is way down from several years ago.

The Golden Globe Awards drew an average of 9.3 million viewers for CBS on Sunday night, a modest decline from last year, according to Nielsen. The good news for the Globes is that the award show, on life support not long ago, has managed to stop the bleeding. Last year’s ceremony drew 9.4 million viewers, the first year it had broadcast on CBS.

This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was nearly as Pope-ular as the one before. The Nielsen numbers are now in, and Sunday evening’s Nikki Glaser-hosted telecast averaged 9.3 million total viewers, down just 2% from last year’s four-year high.

An average of 10.1 million viewers tuned into the 82nd Golden Globes across CBS and Paramount+, roughly matching the audience for last year’s broadcast

Golden Globe Awards on CBS on Sunday (Jan. 5) averaged 10.1 million viewers, based on VideoAmp overnight data, despite strong competition on NBC – an NFL game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions.