NBC announced a short time later it wouldn’t host the annual awards show, citing HFPA’s “lack of diversity” and not its lowest ratings ever as the reason.
“We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform,” a statement from NBC to CNN read. “However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right. As such, NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes.”
HBO and Warner Media have cut ties with the organization until sweeping reforms are enacted, LA Times reported. Netflix and Amazon have taken similar action, according to Fox News.
Netflix and Amazon have also said they would cease working with the beleaguered group
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WarnerMedia is the latest company to join the chorus of those refusing to work with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), arguing the beleaguered organization’s planned reforms are both too little and are being implemented too slowly.
“While we commend the HFPA membership’s approval of the plan to move towards radical reform, we don’t believe the plan goes far enough in addressing the breadth of our concerns, nor does your timeline capture the immediate need by which these issues should be addressed,” the company wrote in a letter to HFPA president Ali Sar. “WarnerMedia Studios and Networks will continue to refrain from direct engagement with the HFPA, including sanctioned press conferences and invitations to cover other industry events with talent, until these changes are implemented.”
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to approve an overhaul proposal but the group s pledges of transformation have done little to reassure entertainment companies. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Hollywood Forei
NBC has said no, thanks to the Golden Globes next year, telling the Hollywood Foreign Press Association it needs to get its act together on lack of diversity and other problems recently uncovered.
The network is the latest company to distance itself from the press group which has been accused of self-dealing, corruption and conflicts of interest.
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For years, NBC has billed the Golden Globe Awards as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year.” On Monday, the network announced that, for now at least, the party is over.
Capping months of intensifying controversy sparked by a Times investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the tiny but powerful group that hands out the Golden Globe Awards, NBC said Monday that it will not air the show, a key precursor to the Oscars, in 2022.
The HFPA had been struggling to contain a mounting crisis since publication of the Times investigation that shed light on a range of alleged ethical and financial improprieties and revealed that the organization has no Black members. The Feb. 21 report set off a growing chorus of criticism from Time’s Up and powerful industry figures, including director Ava DuVernay and TV producer Shonda Rhimes.
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