HFPA Dropped By PR Film Sunshine Sachs
deadline.comMore troubles for the group behind the Golden Globes. PR film Sunshine Sachs has dropped the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a client.The film sent a letter to HFPA this week, and its board was filled in today, Deadline hears. “This was a long time coming” said a source close to the situation. “It was only a matter of when, not if.”The move comes after more than a year of backlash against the HFPA over its lack of diversity.
The Globes org countered by implementing a plan for “transformational change” that eventually included a pledge to have at least 13% Black membership, updating its “code of conduct,” hiring a diversity consultant and teaming with the NAACP on a “reimagine coalition,” among other moves.Back in May, HFPA’s longtime TV partner NBC canceled the 2022 Golden Globes, which went on as a non-televised event in January.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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