Multi-Emmy-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner have been tapped as govt producing showrunners for the 81st Golden Globe Awards. Weiss additionally is about to direct the reside present on Sunday, January 7, 2024.
“We’re so thrilled to have Glenn and Ricky helm this 12 months’s Golden Globe Awards,” stated Jay Penske, CEO, Chairman and Founder, Penske Media, and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. “Their imaginative and prescient, creativity, unparalleled observe report and masterful skillsets make them preferrred companions as we endeavor to create our most vibrant and memorable present but.”
Weiss and Kirshner of White Cherry Leisure most just lately served as producers of the ninety fifth Academy Awards. Since launching their boutique manufacturing firm WCE in 1999, they’ve produced dozens of reside tv specials, together with The Primetime Emmy Awards, Tremendous Bowl halftime exhibits, Tony Awards, Kennedy Heart Honors and presidential inaugurations. Weiss has a longtime alliance with Dick Clark Productions serving as director for the Academy of Nation Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New 12 months Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest and American Music Awards. This can be Weiss’ first time directing the Golden Globes.
“With an incomparable physique of labor in reside occasion manufacturing that spans a long time, Glenn and Ricky deliver with them an unparalleled wealth of information and experience to the Golden Globes,” stated Helen Hoehne, President, Golden Globes. “Their professionalism and innovation are revered all through the business, and we look ahead to seeing their inventive imaginative and prescient come to life on January 7.”
“We look ahead to elevating the bar for the awards season proper out of the gate!” stated Weiss and Kirshner.
Nominations for the 2024 Golden Globe Awards can be introduced on December 11.
