After the Oscars officially became a punchline last month, a film executive texted: “Well at least nobody hits anyone on stage at the Globes!” That’s true, but, as we know, the Golden Globes fights are all off camera—and we’re heading toward another round.
Nearly 15 months into the talent publicists’ boycott of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association over its diversity and practices, NBC will soon need to decide whether to air the 2023 show. Those talks are ongoing, I’m told, as are a new round of discussions with the publicists. And earlier this month, H.F.P.A. interim C.E.O. Todd Boehly offered to expand the group to 300 members and create a streamlined, for-profit entity to house the organization’s assets. It’s all an effort to convince NBC Universal C.E.O. Jeff Shell that the H.F.P.A. has its act together and NBC should reinstate the show.
