Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to co-host Golden Globes on separate coasts
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Creative besties and on-screen collaborators Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (read: #friendshipgoals) are finally returning to co-host the Golden Globes—something they haven’t done since 2015. But, thanks to COVID-19, they won’t physically be together for one of film and television’s biggest nights.
For the first time in the award show’s 78-year history, the broadcast is coming at viewers from multiple locations, confirms Variety. So while Poehler will be set up at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif where the show is always held (the hotel is so Beverly Hills its zip code is 90210), Fey is setting up shop at The Rainbow Room on top of Rockefeller Center in New York City. In other words it will be a late night for Tina, who lives in New York, but an early soiree for Amy, who will be three hours behind in her hometown.
As the publication notes, this broadcast may be a first for the Globes, but it’s not a completely new concept to award shows in general. The Oscars, for example, did it for a few years back in the 1950s. What’s less clear about the February 28 Globes broadcast, which has already been pushed back by nearly two months, is who else will physically be in attendance.
Right now organizers are still hammering out all of the final details, including whether presenters will participate in-person or remotely, or if the show will feature a mix of both, as viewers saw happen at last year’s virtual Emmys. (Presenters like Tracee Ellis Ross and Jennifer Aniston joined host Jimmy Kimmel from a distance, while others participated from the comfort of their own homes.) Having two central bases for the hosts opens up the possibility of more in-person appearances, however, as it cuts down on potential flights and quarantine time for those actors who would typically have to travel across the coast in order to be there.
The 78th Golden Globes marks Poehler and Fey’s fourth-time hosting the shindig. They previously helmed the 70th, 71st and 72nd shows, which took place from 2013 to 2015. While you’d think that kind of experience would make them the most experienced of all the Globes hosts over the years, that honour actually goes to Ricky Gervais, who controversially hosted (and roasted) the ceremony for a fifth time last year. News of Poehler and Fey returning to the gig came last winter during the Television Critics Association Press Tour when Poehler made a surprise appearance to make the announcement, while also revealing that her reality series Making It had been renewed for a third season.
“NBC has long been the home to two of the funniest people on the planet—Tina Fey and Amy Poehler—and we didn’t want to wait any longer to share the great news that they’ll be hosting the Globes once again,” former NBC boss Paul Telegdy said in an official announcement at the time.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson announced the list of major Golden Globe nominees virtually on February 3. And while viewers will have to wait until the show at the end of the month to see who will collect one of the famous trophies for their fireplace mantels (or for their toilets), fans can expect to see Satchel and Jackson Lee, the kids of filmmaker Spike Lee and producer Tonya Lewis Lee, who are the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors. Meanwhile Jane Fonda will accept the Cecil B deMille Award, and Norman Lear will be awarded the Carol Burnett Award.
The 78th annual Golden Globe Awards air Sunday, February 28 at 8pm ET on CTV.
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