From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. This week, it's a mid-May mega multi-banter.

NBC bounces the 2022 Golden Globes. Disney subscriber numbers disappoint. The stars of a quiet

place to make some noise over the movie's theatrical run, and Ellen calls it quits.

I'm joined by Matt Bellany and Christy Leanne Doley, the BuzzFeed reporter who wrote All About Ellen.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in Megabanter this week because it is a busy news week and there's a lot to talk about.

And I'm going to start for no particular reason with NBC's decision to shut down the Golden Globes.

I'm at, as you know, the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which spawned the Golden Globes,

it has not been a secret in Hollywood that it is a strange little group of 90-odd foreign reporters,

some of whom are sort of not totally reporters. These are not a mainstream part of Hollywood

press. They're in their own world.

They can be very demanding and they have to be courted and there's been a lot of resentment.

And I am old enough to remember when the Globes was like a goofy fun party and nobody took it seriously.

And it grew like too many Hollywood parties that we have seen over the years into almost a caricature of

itself. And it became gigantic. It became big money. It became this intense, stressful evening.

But because of the big money, it was a business. And it had impact on promoting movies. Movies got

profile. People had a chance to show that they would be appropriately

well-behaved if they won an Oscar and to audition for winning an Oscar. And it became huge. And now

the LA Times did a creditable story about the fact that they have no black members and the fact that

there are some pretty whiffy practices in terms of who pays for what for access with

these guys and how they are courted and take trips and first class tickets, this, that, and the other,

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