The Golden Globes are coming back. Somewhere.
Today they announced that Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the best producer-director combo in the biz, will helm the show on January 7th. The pair has 23 Emmy Awards between them.
But how will people see this show? Who will host it? No one knows. The contract between Dick Clark Productions and NBC ended last year with very poor ratings. If NBC doesn’t re-up, Fox would be the best candidate for the Globes.
If broadcast doesn’t work out, there’s always streaming. Netflix, Amazon, You Tube would all be candidates.
And who would host the show? This is interesting because past hosts made fun of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But now, with the Globes taken over by Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, it’s hoped the really embarrassing people involved are gone. Luckily, the Globes have excellent new leaders in Executive Vice President Tim Gray and president Helen Hoehne
Lots of questions but the Weiss-Kirshner hiring is a good sign!
BTW If you don’t know it, Ricky Kirshner’s dad was the late great Don Kirshner, the song publisher and television producer who helped invent pop and rock and roll.
