Is the Golden Globes’ Comeback Doomed by the New-Look HFPA?

thewrap.com:

according to some reports. Or the reports of the Globes’ return might be premature, a trial balloon launched by those with a lot at stake in that return.But while things appear to be up in the air, can we ask a couple of questions?For starters: How will it benefit Hollywood to bring back the quintessential high-visibility, low-pressure awards show?(High visibility because the ratings are pretty good, and the stars, at least in the past, have shown up; low pressure because all those stars know that it doesn’t really matter if several dozen members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association give that clunky statue to somebody else.)Also: As the HFPA reaches for reforms, are those moves doomed by the organization’s new, for-profit structure, which is automatically less transparent and loaded with more conflicts of interest than the old structure?The background behind those questions is well known by now.

A series of stories in the Los Angeles Times in 2021 forced the industry to acknowledge and act on things it already knew – that the HFPA was a small, insular organization with no Black members, a history of asking embarrassing questions at their press conference and an array of ethical lapses.

Publicists announced a boycott, NBC said it wouldn’t air the ceremony in 2022 and the HFPA promised sweeping reforms.Those reforms have included new ethics rules, outside oversight and the admission of 21 new members, six of whom were Black.