Los Angeles: U.S. tv community NBC stated on Monday it is not going to broadcast Hollywood`s Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 following complaints about moral lapses and lack of diversity among the many group that fingers out the annual awards for movie and tv.
The determination got here regardless of a plan authorised final week by the small Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which fingers out the awards, to recruit extra Black members and make different adjustments over the following 12 months.
NBC stated in an announcement on Monday that the reforms weren’t fast sufficient.
“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,” NBC stated.
“Assuming the organization executes on its plan, we are hopeful we will be in a position to air the show in January 2023,” the assertion added.
The HFPA didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
The annual Golden Globe ceremony has turn out to be one of many greatest Hollywood awards reveals within the run-up to the Oscars.
The strikes comply with an investigation printed in February by the Los Angeles Times that famous there have been no Black folks presently within the HFPA. The newspaper additionally raised long-standing moral questions over the shut relationships between the HFPA and film studios that will affect the selection of Golden Globe nominees and winners.
