EXCLUSIVE: The Golden Globes is getting a companion TV particular. Titled Golden Eve, the primary annual CBS primetime particular, honoring recipients of the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Carol Burnett Award, will air at 8 PM on Thursday, Jan. 8, three days earlier than the Golden Globes ceremony on the community (and streaming on Paramount+). It’s a part of an expanded Golden Globes partnership between CBS and Dick Clark Productions to launch Golden Week.
Golden Eve would be the cornerstone of the brand new week-long initiative, which incorporates particular programming throughout Paramount platforms and kick-off occasions resulting in the 83rd Annual Golden Globes, airing dwell on Jan. 11, 2026 with comic Nikki Glaser returning as host.
Like this 12 months’s inaugural Golden Gala, which honored Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Viola Davis and Carol Burnett Award recipient Ted Danson, the 2026 honorees shall be offered with the awards at a ceremony earlier within the Golden Week. It will likely be taped and become the Golden Eve particular, which can even function curated profession retrospectives, never-before-seen footage, and in-depth conversations with the award recipients.
“We’re so excited to increase our partnership with CBS and produce the Golden Globes to an excellent wider viewers throughout the Paramount portfolio,” mentioned Jay Penske, CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which is co-owned by Deadline mum or dad PMC. With Golden Eve, we are going to have fun the business’s most gifted and influential figures, recognizing the recipients of the celebrated Cecil B. DeMille Award and Carol Burnett Award. It is a likelihood to correctly honor those that have so profoundly formed our tradition with greater than a 2-minute awards second. This occasion and particular will happen throughout ‘Golden Week’, a premier cross-platform initiative with CBS that transforms the Globes right into a multi-day cultural occasion, making it a cornerstone of the awards season.”
This marks an evolution from this 12 months’s Golden Gala, which was not televised, with Davis’ acceptance speech, which you’ll be able to watch beneath, going viral after being launched on YouTube by the Golden Globes. (The Academy’s Governors Awards, the place Honorary Oscar are handed out, additionally just isn’t televised.)
“CBS has lengthy championed excellence in arts and leisure and that may proceed in 2026,” mentioned Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Leisure. “With Golden Eve and Golden Week, we’ll have fun the Golden Globes throughout CBS and Paramount, creating an immersive expertise that brings viewers nearer to considered one of Hollywood’s most iconic occasions.”
First created in 1952 and honoring the eponymous director, the film-focused Cecil B. DeMille Award has had 69 recipients thus far, together with Walt Disney, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey. The TV counterpart, the Carol Burnett Award, was created in 2019 and initially awarded to its namesake.
“The Golden Globes has at all times honored the achievements of exceptional skills. With Golden Eve, we’ll give viewers a extra intimate have a look at our honorees’ legacies and produce audiences nearer to those icons,” mentioned Helen Hoehne, President, Golden Globes. “We’re excited to create an unforgettable night time of award tv with CBS and Paramount as we have fun these legends.”
DCP plans, hosts and produces the Golden Globes, which has been seen in additional than 185 nations and territories worldwide.
Right here is Davis’ speech:
