After a yr off from tv broadcast, the embattled Golden Globe Awards will reportedly return to NBC subsequent yr.
The community is allegedly eyeing Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, for the occasion, “multiple high-level sources” informed The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday.
Representatives for each the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group behind the awards, and NBC declined to remark to The Post. They had already declined to remark to THR. A supply additionally informed Deadline that the NBC broadcast was “not a done deal.”
Traditionally, the Globes occur on a Sunday in January, however the month is almost booked already. The first Sunday in January 2023 is New Year’s Day, and the next Sunday, Jan. 8, is the final day of the NFL’s common season — that means “NBC Sunday Night Football” would get that slot. In addition, the Critics Choice Awards already occupies the Sunday after that — Jan. 15.
NBC abruptly pulled the plug on the awards show final yr after a number of allegations that the HFPA had severe range and moral points.
The 87-member group most notably had an absence of black members among the many “international” journalists primarily based in Los Angeles.
After a bombshell LA Times report in February 2021 detailed the group’s lack of inclusion — and denounced it as an “insular, improbably powerful group” — the Time’s Up group was joined by Hollywood notables together with Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington, Judd Apatow, Alyssa Milano, Amy Schumer and extra in slamming the group for its shortfalls, reiterating that “a cosmetic fix isn’t enough” in a barrage of solidarity tweets.
“We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform. However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right,” NBC stated in a press release on the time.
“As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes. Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023,” it continued.
HFPA responded to the cancellation, vowing to implement adjustments “quickly.”
“Regardless of the next air date of the Golden Globes, implementing transformational changes as quickly — and as thoughtfully — as possible remains the top priority,” the board stated in a press release obtained by The Wrap. “We invite our partners in the industry to the table to work with us on the systemic reform that is long overdue, both in our organization as well as within the industry at large.”
Late final month, the group introduced that it deliberate to create “a new private entity” to handle the awards show. According to a press launch, the brand new firm “would acquire all rights for the Golden Globes intellectual property and be empowered to oversee the professionalization and modernization of the Golden Globe Awards.” The group’s “charitable and philanthropic programs,” in the meantime, would function inside a “separate non-profit entity.”
The group additionally stated it might add further Golden Globes voters “to increase the size and diversity of the available voters” for the annual ceremony.
The 2022 Globes award ceremony was not broadcast wherever — not even on streaming websites — after NBC pulled out. Instead, the winners had been tweeted out and likewise introduced via the 90-minute ceremony on the Golden Globes web site.
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