NBC Brings Back The Golden Globes

The Golden Globes is returning next year to NBC, its longtime broadcast network, in time for the awards show’s 80th anniversary, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced Tuesday in a joint statement.

The L-A Times reports the move caps more than a year of chaos and uncertainty for the HFPA, which confronted withering criticism over its operations and the conduct of members. The group has embarked on a series of reforms in an effort to salvage its once high-profile awards show and get back into Hollywood’s good graces.

Last year, NBC dropped the broadcast of the 2022 Globes, a contingent of powerful publicists boycotted the organization and studios including Netflix and WarnerMedia cut ties after a Los Angeles Times investigation raised questions about the group’s ethical and financial lapses and revealed that not one of the then-87 members was Black.

The report highlighted allegations that the nonprofit group’s awards or nominations could be influenced with expensive junkets and publicity swag. It also found that the HFPA regularly issued substantial payments to its own members — nearly $2 million in the fiscal year ending in June 2020 — in ways that some experts said could run afoul of Internal Revenue Service guidelines. The HFPA said its compensation practices were in line with industry practices and that the allegations reflected longstanding bias against the association.

NBC will televise next year’s ceremony on Jan. 10 on the broadcast network and on its Peacock streaming platform as part of a one-year agreement, which also allows the HFPA and Dick Clark Productions to “explore new opportunities for domestic and global distribution across a variety of platforms in the future,” according to a joint statement.