BAM!: Golden Globes No Longer "Must-See" for NBC

For years, NBC has billed the Golden Globe Awards as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year.” But after building pressure on the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. — the tiny but powerful group that hands out the awards — the network announced that, for now at least, the party is over. Capping months of intensifying controversy sparked by a Times investigation into the HFPA that shed light on a range of alleged ethical and financial improprieties and revealed that the organization has no Black members, NBC said that it will not air the show in 2022. Fighting to safeguard the Globes and their very existence, the HFPA announced a series of sweeping reforms last week, including increasing its historically insular membership ranks by 50% over the next 18 months, with a focus on recruiting Black members. But the proposals did little to quell the controversy, with a number of Hollywood’s biggest power players — including Netflix, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and HBO — saying in recent days that they would not work with the HFPA until more meaningful changes were enacted. After two months of publicly backing the HFPA in an effort to preserve the viability of a show it has aired since 1996, NBC ultimately concluded that the situation was untenable.