The Golden Globes will return to television on January 10

The Golden Globes are in decline.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
20 September 2022 Tuesday 13:36
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The Golden Globes will return to television on January 10

The Golden Globes are in decline. But they resist. They don't want to be forgotten. And that is why they want to return to where they were banned: television. As confirmed on Monday by the NBC network and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), mired in a serious reputational crisis since last year, they will be broadcast again on the small screen on January 10, 2023.

"We recognize the HFPA's commitment to change and look forward to welcoming the Golden Globes on NBC to celebrate its 80th anniversary," NBC Entertainment Division President Frances Berwick said in a statement.

However, the small print of the contract indicates that the broadcaster and the organization have only reached a one-year agreement that must be renegotiated if both parties are satisfied with the return of the ceremony that traditionally kicked off the Oscar race.

The election of January 10, a Tuesday, instead of the traditional Sunday occurs because NBC had already reserved the previous Sunday for the NFL American football league.

In addition, the following Sunday (January 15) the Critics Choice Awards are given, some awards broadcast by The CW channel and until now had remained in the background but began to gain fame after the fall of the Golden Globes.

NBC, owner of the rights to the Golden Globes since 1996, decided not to broadcast the 2022 gala after a hundred advertising firms on both sides of the Atlantic announced a boycott to which Hollywood heavyweights such as studios joined. Warner Bros, Netflix and Amazon Studios.

The decline of the awards came when complaints against the HFPA intensified for dubious ethical practices among its members, such as nominating certain productions in exchange for trips and gifts or preventing other journalists from outside the organization from working.

The straw that broke the camel's back was that, in the middle of the year of awareness of racism in the United States, the association did not have any black person in its ranks, which exceeded 70 members.

After the controversy, the HFPA included twenty new members and committed to a series of reforms, which for the moment have only materialized in the transfer of its brand to a private company.

This summer, most of its members opted to transfer the management of everything related to the awards to Eldridge Industries LLC, an entity controlled by businessman Todd Boehly, who has served as interim CEO of the HFPA since last year. .

Until then, the association operated as a non-profit entity that had a contract for which NBC paid 60 million dollars a year to produce the gala.

However, the change of ownership has not been without controversy, since the new owner of the Golden Globes would be in conflict of interest as he is the producer of fictions such as "Ozark" and "The Great" and has shares in The Hollywood Reporter, reference medium in the audiovisual industry.