From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

When filmmakers Jed Apatow and Nicholas Stoller approached Billy Eichner about making the first big studio, big screen, LGBTQ plus rom-com,

the first words out of Eichner's mouth were not, hell yes. Instead, he said this.

I have been gay and openly gay man in comedy for over 20 years, and I am telling you that even the most gay-friendly execs at a major studio are not going to greenlight this movie.

And even if they do, they're not going to let me tell it in an authentic, honest

way.

Eichner was thrilled to be wrong about that.

He talks about bros, his very first time co-writing and starring in a movie, the movie of

his dreams.

But first we banter.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, we have now learned that the Golden Globes will return to NBC this coming year, having been booted off the network amid revelations, I think, primarily in the L.A. Times about the nature of the membership and some, you know, behavior that was ridiculous, you know, unethical journalism, racism,

embarrassing questions, you know, who are the members of this thing anyway? This whole expose

pushed it off the air. A lot of publicists who were hostile to the

globes mobilized and tried to just, you know, murder it for once and for all, I think. There's a lot

of money involved. I mean, NBC had promised $60 million a year, I think, through 2026 to broadcast this thing. And it was not broadcast.

People were kind of annoyed this past January when the Globes went ahead and did a show anyway,

pretending like, well, we're just going to go ahead. I didn't get talent to turn out. And there are so

many huge questions posed by this deal. And I'll mention in disclosure that, you know, the person behind this is

Eldridge Enterprises, which used to own the Hollywood Reporter, where I work and you used to work.

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