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The annual Golden Globes – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s celebration of everything that’s good and maybe not-so good about the movie industry – has always been a free-wheeling, more relaxed and slightly lubricated version of the more uptight and self-serious offerings like the Academy Awards or BAFTA, a respite for film aficionados who prefer their celluloid with a dash of inane silliness and cheese attached. As if to underline the quasi-seriousness of an event designed to fete the already quite rich and entitled – despite what they insist, movie stars are not like you or I, Dear and Constant Reader – the real joy of the Golden Globes was in witnessing the comedy muzzle being lifted from such stalwart and wonky comedians as Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. To be for sure, you don’t really know acerbic and razor-sharp comedy stand-up until you see a camera pan to a simmering Johnny Depp after Ricky Gervais skewers his less than stellar efforts in a turkey such as The Tourist; comedy gold, folks. This yearly awards ceremony – generally considered a bellwether for who will and won’t be nominated for the Oscars – was humming along nice and smoothly for some time – until, one day, it wasn’t.
After what to many felt like a proverbial cancel-culture hit piece from the Los Angeles Times which proffered that the Golden Globes were racist in nature due to a lack of diversity in its membership, NBC buckled like a cheap belt from JC Penny and promptly sent the Globes a-packing, dropping their tradition of airing the show and leaving film fans stuck with the apparently far more virtuous (read: drab, boring, preachy, predictable, status-quo) Oscars and their various and sundry award show brethren. These were dark days, indeed. But – miracle of miracles! –our Orwellian third cousins twice removed over at The Hollywood Reporter have announced on this very day that the Golden Globes are reuniting with an apparently contrite NBC.
The Golden Globes will be returning to NBC in 2023, various sources have revealed, with an official return date of Tuesday, January 10. But in what form might longtime Globe-watchers anticipate said return? Will Ricky Gervais pick up from where he last left off as an equal opportunity offender, or will audiences be subjected to an hours-long remediation from the hosts of The View designed to make everyone inexplicably feel worse about themselves than they did just prior to the show starting?
We’re not sure which Golden Globes will be popping back up on television sets this January, but we’ve got the popcorn and the remote control at the ready for the return of one of our favorite awards shows!
