LOS ANGELES — Twenty months after NBC announced that it was pulling the Golden Globe Awards off the air amid controversy, the show long billed as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year” is set to return to the airwaves Tuesday night.
Stars will once again twirl before the cameras on the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Champagne will flow. Host Jerrod Carmichael will crack jokes, a few no doubt at the expense of the often-mocked awards themselves.
But in the wake of a devastating public-relations crisis that tarnished the 80-year-old show and jeopardized its very existence, it remains to be seen just how festive the mood at this year’s Globes will be — and how many viewers will tune in to watch.
