by Thinus Ferreira
MultiChoice is done with America's recently revived but credibility-damaged Golden Globe Awards and won't show the 2025 Golden Globes on M-Net (DStv 101) or any other TV channel on DStv.
Meanwhile, NBCUniversal's atrophied E! (DStv 124) will only show a recorded Live from the Red Carpet pre-awards red carpet coverage - almost a day later that it will still call "Live".
M-Net wasn't interested in acquiring 2025's 82nd Golden Globe Awards taking place on Sunday 5 January in Los Angeles and which won't be shown live on Monday morning in South Africa or later during primetime on Monday night on M-Net (DStv 101) as was the case for many years.
An investigation in 2021 damaged the
credibility of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and exposed and
revealed multiple issues ranging from a lack of diversity under the voting
member corps, numerous ethical concerns and allegations of corruption like HFPA
members being influenced by gifts, trips and other perks.
NBC decided not to broadcast the Golden
Globes in 2022 following an industry-wide boycott which was held as a private
event without any Hollywood stars and even with reforms the Golden Globes
reputation remains in tatters.
A small event took place in January 2023, and
again in January 2024 – with this one as the first ceremony after Dick Clark
Productions and Eldridge Industries took full control over it from the HFPA.
The 82nd Golden Globe Awards this year with host Nikki Glaser is produced by Dick Clark Productions in the Beverly Hilton Hotel and shown on CBS.
M-Net in response to a media query tells me "We will not be broadcasting the Golden Globes this year".
NBCUniversal's E! will be doing a Live from the Red Carpet: The 2025 Golden Globe Awards but South African and African viewers won't be able to see the pre-coverage on DStv either live, or before, the actual award show.
Instead, the pre-coverage will be shown as an afterthought on E! in Africa almost a day later.
Live from the Red Carpet: The 2025 Golden Globe Awards will be on E! (DStv 124) on Monday night, 6 January at 19:00. NBCUniversal calls it "Live" although it will be recorded and stale.
NBCUniversal and E! have given no explanation why the so-called Live from the Red Carpet coverage, similar as with other awards' pre-coverage the past year or so, is again not actually live - a worrying and ongoing trend for the regressing version of E! in Africa.
The presenters E! is using for its pre-but-coming-in-post red carpet coverage will include E! News cohost Keltie Knight, as well as Zuri Hall and American comedian Heather McMahan.
