The American channel NBC will return to air the Golden Globes in January, after giving up airing the awards ceremony in 2022. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark Productions, the company that produces the event, have announced. .
Details on the negotiations were not released. It is known only that the agreement is valid for one year, “which allows HFPA and DCP to explore new opportunities for domestic and global distribution on a variety of platforms in the future,” explains the official release.
Responsible for airing the awards since 1996, the channel canceled the broadcast last year, after pressure from the Amazon and Netflix platforms, of a coalition of 100 talent agencies, representing the major stars of film and television in the states. United States and the United Kingdom. also from various studies. All of them announced their breakup with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the entity that elects the award winners, due to allegations of racism and corruption.
The agencies even specifically suggested the cancellation of the Golden Globes in 2022, given the association’s lack of haste in promoting the expected changes from the entertainment industry. Instead, the Golden Globes “happened” without the presence of Hollywood stars, with the announcement of the winners via social media. At the time, NBC had already hinted that it could air the event in 2023.
Among the recent changes to the organization, the HFPA recently announced that it has added 103 new voters to its members, adding to the approximately 80 previously existing.
One of the facts that generated the greatest repercussions against the entity was a report by the Los Angeles Times newspaper which pointed out that none of the original 80 members of the HFPA and voters of the Golden Globes were black. To complicate matters, a former president of the organization, Philip Berk, wrote an email to members calling the “Black Lives Matter” movement a “racist hate movement”. He was expelled from the association.
To reach its new cast of voters, the HFPA explained that they will now count as non-US voters and that the voter pool is made up of “52% women, 51.5% racially and ethnically diverse, with 19.5% Latin, 12% Asian, 10% Black and 10% Middle Eastern “.
This is the implementation of the changes announced some time ago.
In August, current HFPA President Helen Hoehne sent a long list summarizing HFPA reforms to a group of talented agents, which includes an Ethics Handbook – following multiple allegations of harassment by stars. of Hollywood – and a Diversity Director.
More importantly, the Golden Globes are no longer the exclusive initiative of the HFPA. With the crisis, the organization organizing the event was sold to investment firm Eldridge Industries, which also acquired ownership of Dick Clark Productions, the longtime producer of the awards.
As a result, Eldridge Industries owner Todd Boehly served as interim CEO of HFPA since October 2021.
However, this acquisition has been heavily criticized because it offers the HFPA the opportunity to cease being a non-profit organization.
In any case, even these changes may not be enough to restore trust in the HFPA, whose credibility was jeopardized after a corruption and racism scandal among its ranks came to light. Especially since the changes were not unanimous. About a quarter of the organization’s members voted against the proposals, and others questioned the organization’s sincerity and resigned.
That is, although the ceremony was scheduled, it does not necessarily mean a return to normal.
The 80th edition of the Golden Globes was scheduled for January 10, 2023, a Tuesday. The choice of date is due to the fact that the previous Sunday was busy with an NFL football game and the next with the Critics Choice Awards. The ceremony will air simultaneously in the United States on NBC TV and the Peacock streaming service.
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