NBC Revives Tarnished Golden Globe Telecast, Citing Reforms

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The Golden Globe Awards telecast, which sloshes money through the entertainment economy, will return in January with an even bigger platform. NBC canceled the show in 2021 amid an ethics, finance and diversity scandal that continues to simmer.

NBC said on Tuesday that it would broadcast the 80th Golden Globes ceremony on Jan. 10, a prime spot on Hollywood’s awards-season calendar. (Oscar balloting begins on Jan. 12.) For the first time, the show will also be available simultaneously online, through NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock.

Nominations will be announced on Dec. 12.

To justify its decision, NBCUniversal pointed to a wide range of reforms at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the unorthodox organization that bestows the Globes. “We recognize the H.F.P.A.’s commitment to ongoing change,” Frances Berwick, NBCUniversal’s chairwoman of entertainment networks, said in a statement.

Notably, however, the company said it was bringing back the Globes only under a one-year agreement, allowing the organizers “to explore new opportunities for domestic and global distribution across a variety of platforms in the future.”

The foreign press association has overhauled membership eligibility, recruited new members with an emphasis on diversity, enacted a stricter code of conduct, elected a new president and largely ended its tax-exempt status, transforming into a for-profit company with a philanthropic arm. Last month, the H.F.P.A. sent a letter to studios that pointed to “transformational change” in the areas of “diversity, transparency and accountability.”

The 97-member foreign press association now has six Black voters — up from zero last year — and has added 103 nonmember voters, a dozen or so of whom are Black.