Ricky Gervais. Photo: David Eustace / HBO
Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Ricky Gervais, probably best known for his role as David Brent on the BBC version of The Office, will host the 2010 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 17, 2010, on NBC.
This year's show will be broadcast live coast-to-coast from 5-8 p.m. (PT) / 8-11 p.m. (ET) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This marks the first time the Golden Globes telecast has had a host since 1995.
"Not only is this the biggest Hollywood celebration of the industry which includes both film and TV," Gervais is quoted as saying in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's press release, "but also an environment where I feel I can get free reign as a host. I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don't turn down."
Gervais' latest feature-film effort was The Invention of Lying, which he wrote, directed, and starred opposite Jennifer Garner. Cemetery Junction — Gervais' second film as writer and director, and his first writing-directing feature-film partnership with Stephen Merchant — is slated to be released in April 2010. Also in the Cemetery Junction cast: Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, and Matthew Goode.
Nominations for 2010 Golden Globes will be announced at 5 a.m. (PT) on Tuesday, December 15.
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