I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money rehab. Well the Golden Globes are this Sunday and out of all the picks for Best Drama of

the Year the biggest drama might actually be the Golden Globes themselves.

In recent years, with streaming and social media

coming into the mix, the traditional award show format

is looking a little stale and boring.

Last year, the Golden Globes flopped.

It was a Tuesday, after all,

which is low-key embarrassing for any awards show

that's competing with the Oscars.

But just like it takes 10 years to be an overnight success, the Golden Globes wasn't an overnight

dumpster fire.

So I'm going to unpack how the Golden Globes got here, why it was almost cancelled, and the big transformation that might just save the future of the

show.

But even though the Golden Globes has been a bit of a mess, it's still a gigantic money machine.

Not necessarily a money-making machine, but the amount of money

exchanged by actors, chefs, drivers, security, producers, jewelers, tailors, is staggering. So I'm also going to give you a picture of the Golden Globes by the

numbers. But let's start with the drama and why the Golden Globes were almost

canceled in every sense of the word. Now let's be honest, the Golden Globes have always kind of been the ugly duckling of the

awards season. The Golden Globes celebrate excellence in TV and film, but still don't carry as much notoriety

as the Oscars or the Emmys.

I mean the G and Egot stands for Grammy after all, not Golden Globes.

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