Fellow Travelers: Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer — Photo: Courtesy of Showtime
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the winners of the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, honoring the best in television and streaming networks.
Max’s Hacks took top honors with 4 wins, including nods for Best TV Comedy, Best Written TV Show, and its two stars, Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder.
AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview With A Vampire won Best TV Drama, Best LGBTQ TV Show, and Best Genre TV Show, and the Showtime/Paramount+ drama Fellow Travelers earned wins for its stars Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.
The Campiest TV Show honor went to SYFY/USA’s Chucky, while FX/Hulu’s Reservation Dogs took home the group’s award for Best Unsung TV Show.
Netflix’s superb Young Royals won Best Non-English Language TV Show, while the Alan Cumming-helmed The Traitors on Peacock won Best Reality TV Show. Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV on Investigation Discovery won Best TV Documentary.
Julio Torres was honored with GALECA’s “Wilde Wit Award,” Alan Cumming was bestowed with the “TV Trailblazer Award,” and the legendary Carol Burnett was this year’s “TV Icon” award-winner.
“Congratulations to all the winners of the 2024 Dorian Television Awards,” Walt Hickey, GALECA’s President, said in a statement. “This group is second to none when it comes to elevating and advocating for innovative, daring work, and celebrating the creative efforts of the future of the film and television industry.”
The nonprofit organization boasts over 500 members, most of whom are on staff or freelance for mainstream and niche media outlets including The New Yorker, Vulture, HuffPost, The Los Angeles Times, Out, The Advocate, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, and The Guardian.
Four of Metro Weekly‘s writers are GALECA members, including Senior Contributing Editor and film critic André Hereford, Contributing Editor Hugh McIntyre, Broadway Critic Ryan Leeds, and Editor-in-Chief Randy Shulman.
Based on its stunning trailer -- propelled by early-Hollywood actor Taylor Holmes' ripping 1915 recording of the Rudyard Kipling poem "Boots" -- one might expect 28 Years Later to focus on a father and son's war for survival against zombie-like hordes.
Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, creators of the 2002 series originator 28 Days Later, the film does venture with 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) and his rugged dad, Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), into territory crawling with rage virus-infected human predators.
Yet, that's just a piece of a richer narrative anchored by the drama of domestic dysfunction within Spike's family, which also includes his homebound, mentally ill mom, Isla (Jodie Comer).
America's first female astronaut to be launched into space, Dr. Sally Ride withstood the pressures of being first, including untold amounts of ignorant, sexist hostility and public scrutiny. She understood the risks and responsibility that rested on her confident shoulders. And Sally, a new National Geographic documentary, recounts much of her experience in unflinching detail.
Director Cristina Costantini (Science Fair) dives right into the whirlwind of press and public hoopla that accompanied the buildup to, then glowing success of Ride's first launch in 1983, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
For much of his career, Marco Calvani has tread a dual path as an actor in his native Italy, and as a writer and director of his own plays, short films, and his first feature, the P-town-set gay romance High Tide, released earlier this year.
Ready to capitalize on that success, Calvani, based in L.A. was prepping his next film, thinking he might have narrowed his dual path down to one.
Yet, a plum opportunity to step back in front of the camera came knocking, a role in the Netflix ensemble comedy series The Four Seasons, created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracy Wigfield, based on the beloved 1981 comedy written and directed by Alan Alda.
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