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HBO’s short-lived “Looking” never really stood a chance.

Creator Michael Lannan’s series about the ins and outs of three gay best friends in San Francisco ran for two seasons in 2014 and 2015, followed by a 2016 straight-to-hbo movie in place of a third season. Starring Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez, Russell Tovey, and a pre-“White Lotus” Murray Bartlett, “Looking” arrived on the cusp of when studios started thinking seriously with their dollars in terms of telling queer stories for the mainstream. And those hoping “Looking” would be HBO’s gay answer to “Sex and the City” might have been disappointed with what they received instead: an indie film-style dramedy that played to the often drifting rhythms of its characters’ lives, seeking love and sex in a Bay Area being swallowed by the tech boom.

Tovey, an out British actor who’s since made a name on stage (“Angels in America...

The stars can't stop living it up in style -- and can you blame them?

Reese Witherspoon showed off looks from the spring 2018 collection of her fashion line, Draper James, at Root & Bone in NYC’s East Village on Nov. 2. Not only did she get to style some of her favorite pieces at the Nov. 2 affair, the Tennessee native also happily enjoyed breakfast treats like biscuits and grits at the Southern-style restaurant.

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Emily Ratajkowski was just as fashionable in her nude ruched mini when she pulled up to Goldie Hawn’s Gold Love-In gala on Nov. 3 in a lux Lyft ride.

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Rocking a black-and-white striped turtleneck and vintage-style bell bottoms by DROMe, Girls alum Zosia Mamet celebrated the debut of Rebag’s first pop-up store, Handbag Heaven, in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood on Nov. 7.

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Kate Upton showed...

I may be going out on a shaky limb on a windy day, but I’m currently predicting that “Looking: The Movie” will earn an Emmy nomination for Best TV Movie. After all, television academy members are marking their ballots from June 12 to June 26, right in the middle of Lgbt Pride Month, so it’s […]...

The 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles, where Freeform’s Shadowhunters took home the gold for Outstanding Drama Series.

Amazon’s Transparent was once again recognized as TV’s top comedy, having previously won its category in 2015 and 2016.

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The awards recognize media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The full list of this year’s TV nominees follows can be found here; additional categories will be announced at a second ceremony on Saturday, May 6 in New York,...

Last Year’s Winner: “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride”

Hot Streak: HBO has won more awards in this category than all the other networks combined. They have 19 total Emmys. CBS and NBC are tied for the second highest total – six.

Fun Fact: “Jackie” fans take note: The First Lady was awarded an Emmy for “A Tour of the White House,” her famous televised walking tour that highlighted the historical alterations and preservations she’d help make to the White House. Jackie Kennedy remains the only First Lady to win a statue (though Michelle Obama’s “Billy on the Street” segment was nominated in 2015).

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HBO’s dominance in the TV Movie category is well-known, even if the network was upset by an “Abominable Bride” last year. It’s back with a vengeance in 2017, touting three big-name contenders with built-in followers.

The 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards revealed this year's 156 nominees, and lots of familiar faces are being recognized.

GLAAD, the world’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (Lgbt) media advocacy organization, will be holding two award ceremonies in 2017. The first will be in Los Angeles, California, on April 1, while the second ceremony will take place in New York City on May 6.

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From I Am Cait to How to Get Away With Murder to Moonlight, here's a look at the complete list of nominees:

Outstanding Film - Wide Release

Moonlight

Star Trek Beyond

Outstanding Film - Limited Release

The Handmaiden

Naz & Maalik

Other People

Spa Night

Those People

Outstanding Comedy Series

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Grace and Frankie

Modern Family

One Mississippi

The Real O'Neals

Steven Universe

Survivor's Remorse

Take My Wife

Transparent

Outstanding Drama Series

The Fosters

Grey's Anatomy

Hap and Leonard

How to Get Away With Murder

The...

Nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced Tuesday, with superhero and sci-fi fare such as Supergirl, The Oa and Orphan Black among those snagging nods.

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The awards — which honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community — will be handed out on April 1 in Los Angeles and May 6 in New York.

Other nominees include Amazon’s Transparent and One Mississippi, Freeform’s Shadowhunters and The Fosters and Netflix’s Black Mirror. (The Bold and the Beautiful is...

GLAAD, the world’s Lgbtq media advocacy organization, announced the nominees for its 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards today. Taking a strong stand for inclusivity, only two films were nominated for Outstanding Film — Wide Release, both featuring non-white gay characters: “Moonlight” and “Star Trek Beyond.”

Similarly, in the Outstanding Film — Limited Release category, three films with non-white characters were nominated: Park Chan-wook’s “The Handmaiden,” Jay Dockendorf’s “Naz & Maalik,” and Andrew Ahn’s “Spa Night” were nominated. Chris Kelly’s “Other People” and Joey Kuhn’s “Those People” round out the bunch.

Read More: Gay and Lesbian Critics Association Honor ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Jackie’ with Dorian Award Noms

“At a time when progress is at a critical juncture, it is imperative that Hollywood tell more Lgbtq stories that reflect the community’s rich diversity – and build understanding that brings all communities closer together,” said GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis. “This...

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (Galeca), of which I'm a proud voting member, has revealed its nominees for the best in film and television of 2016. Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" led the pack with 7 nods followed by Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" with 6. Winners will be announced on Thursday, January 26.

Complete List Of Galeca 2016/17 Dorian Awards Nominees:

Note: Categories with more than five nominees involved a tie)

Film of the Year

Jackie (Fox Searchlight)

La La Land (Summit/Lionsgate)

Manchester by the Sea (Roadside/Amazon Studios)

Moonlight (A24)

20th Century Women (A24)

Director of the Year

(Film or Television)

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight (A24)

Pablo Larraín, Jackie (Fox Searchlight)

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea (Roadside/Amazon Studios)

Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden (Amazon Studios)

Damien Chazelle, La La Land (Summit/Lionsgate)

Film Performance of the Year . Actress

Annette Bening, 20th Century Women (A24)

Viola Davis, Fences (Paramount)

Isabelle Huppert,...

For the second year in a row, the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (Galeca) have rallied around an obvious favorite: “Moonlight.” Last year, Todd Haynes’s “Carol” swept Galeca’s Dorian Awards, and from its prominence amongst the nominees announced today, “Moonlight” will likely do the same.

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Not restricted to films with explicit queer themes, the films nominated for film of the year are “Jackie,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “La La Land, “20th Century Women,” and “Moonlight.” The nominees for Lgbtq Film of the Year are “Being 17,” “Closet Monster,” “Moonlight,” “Other People,” and “The Handmaiden.”

Judging by its very strong Oscar chances, the enthusiasm for “Moonlight” has overshadowed all other worthy queer films. “The Handmaiden” was notably absent from the Oscar short list for Best Foreign Language Film, and the other three Dorian nominees are not in contention at all.

Not wanting to jump into another TV series right away, the stage felt like the perfect reset for Andrew Rannells.

“My instinct was to go back to Broadway. That’s where my career started,” Rannells tells Et over the phone in November, shortly before Thanksgiving. The actor, who is earning rave reviews for his performance in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Falsettos, wrapped the sixth and final season of Girls over the summer and turned his attention back to the stage, where he first broke out and earned a Tony nomination for The Book of Mormon. “It’s where I feel most comfortable and most at home.”

“I’m so grateful to Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham for giving me the opportunity,” Rannells says, mentioning the two women behind Girls who let him play Elijah. Originally a guest star, he was promoted to series regular in the third season after Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal was canceled...

The Performer | John Turtutto

The Show | The Night Of

The Episode | “A Dark Crate” (July 24)

The Performance | “He’s barely a lawyer.” “He’s no one — a precinct crawler.” Those are just a couple of the dismissive descriptions we heard about John Turturro’s kind-hearted but out-of-his-depth Jack Stone during Sunday’s episode of The Night Of.

Over the course of the hour, Turturro’s powerfully subtle work brought into stark relief how a lifetime of such put-downs had made his eczema-plagued, small-time attorney so desperate for the big-break murder case that had fallen into his lap, but also how...

Manuel here with an extra episode of HBO Lgbt to celebrate the release of Looking: The Movie. I get the title format but would it have hurt Andrew Haigh to give it a less generic title. I mean, “Looking for Closure” would have been a bit on the nose but it’d have fit nicely with the show’s episodic titles (which included “Looking for a Plot” and “Looking for Home” after all).

I have gone on the record before saying how much I treasured Looking—recapping its second season right here was wonderful and a chance to really flesh out why I think Haigh and Michael Lannan’s show was such a striking meditation on gay male intimacy...

Project Greenlight is no longer living up to its name.

HBO has chosen not to renew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s filmmaking competition series for Season 5, our sister site Variety reports.

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“When we picked up a new season in 2014, we imagined a one season revival and decided in early 2016 another season did not make sense for us,” HBO said in a statement. “We are proud of the show and were pleased with its run throughout the years.”

Damon broke the news of...

Will Chase… porn star?!

The Nashville actor has booked a multi-episode arc on HBO’s forthcoming porn-themed period drama The Deuce, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Written by Wire creator David Simon and frequent collaborator George Pelecanos, the series — which stars James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal — chronicles the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s.

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As most couples will confess: Marriage changes everything. When Looking debuted two years ago on HBO, legal unions between people of the same sex were not the law of the land in the United States. That didn't stop the show's creator Michael Lannan and director Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Weekend), however, from kicking off their dramedy about three young men looking for love in San Francisco by having them attend the bachelor party of a couple preparing to tie the knot. Now, as the series officially came to an end with...

You’ll get no judgment from me if — after watching Looking: The Movie — you’re overcome by the urge to gather your closest friends and/or significant other at the nearest greasy spoon to scarf down runny eggs and weak coffee and whatever else you might need to fend off a Sunday-morning hangover.

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Oh, sure, the wrapup of HBO’s sometimes charming, sometimes maddening dramedy — essentially a third season packed into a tidy 90 minutes — features one too many Unsubtle One-Liners to Underscore the Big Themes (“Sometimes you’ve got to leave...

Midway through the second (and last) season of HBO’s criminally short-lived series Looking, our favorite gay hypochondriac Patrick (Jonathan Groff) justified his tryst with then-taken Kevin (Russell Tovey) by arguing that Kevin and his boyfriend, John, were in the ruts of their relationship and about to end it anyway. “I know how that sounds, like the worst TV show you’ve ever seen,” Patrick admits to reformed narcissist Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez) and, in a weirdly positive way, he’s not very far off the mark.

For all of its 18 episodes, Looking‘s plots lined up with a large swath of typical boilerplate, romantic-drama television that hid a lot of its cliché behind the one thing most people take it for: a gay show. Patrick’s series-long, two suitor dilemma is typical hollywood wish fulfillment – Richie (Raúl Castillo) represents his fear of something new, Kevin his anxiety to connect with someone so similar,...

Universal is in the process of creating a classic horror creatures franchise, following the interconnected tentpole blueprint laid out by Marvel Cinematic Universe. They’ve already scored top-tier talent such as Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Russell Crowe, and they are now eyeing Javier Bardem for the iconic role of Frankenstein’s monster, which was clarified by Variety‘s Justin Kroll:

To be clear, he would be playing the monster in some form not Victor

— Justin Kroll (@krolljvar) July 11, 2016

The No Country For Old Men star previously declined an offer to appear opposite Cruise in The Mummy, a role which was deferred to Crowe. It now seems as though there’s a spot for everyone in this monster mash, which Bardem will shoot after Darren Aronofsky‘s next project, which is currently in production. Bardem will also be seen in another big-budget feature when Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales...

Fresh off the acclaim from Louis C.K.’s daring limited series “Horace and Pete,” Steve Buscemi has lined up a new gig with one of the most exciting directors working today. The actor is set to star in “Lean on Pete,” an adaptation of the 2010 Willy Vlautin novel that is being written and directed by Andrew Haigh. The movie has been a passion project for the director, who has earned acclaim thanks to films like “Weekend” and “45 Years.” Deadline first reported the casting.

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The story revolves around 15-year-old teenager Charley as he embarks on a perilous journey in search of his long lost aunt, with his only companion being a stolen racehorse named Lean on Pete. The movie has been described as a passion project for Haigh, whose industry pull has no doubt increased in the months since...

In 2015 the HBO series “Looking” was cancelled after two seasons. Now, the cable network is reuniting the cast for a special titled “Looking: The Movie,” to conclude the stories of the characters that fans loved. The first trailer for the film was released last month, and now a new featurette shows the cast members talking about what’s to come.

“Getting the opportunity to close the stories with a film feels really right,” says Jonathan Groff who portrayed Patrick. Created by Michael Lannan, the drama centered on three gay men living in San Francisco, Patrick, Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett). Although the series received positive reviews, its low ratings resulted in not being renewed for a third season.

Read More: ‘Looking: The Movie’ Trailer: HBO’s Gone-Too-Soon Series Concludes With a One-Time Special

The movie picks up nine months after we last saw the characters. Patrick moved...

Of all the things that HBO have cancelled in recent years, “Looking” is the one we probably miss the most. Billed as a sort of gay “Girls” equivalent, the show, created by writer Michael Lannan and often directed by Andrew Haigh (“Weekend”), proved to be something richer and deeper than the comparison suggests, not just […]

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Yep, Looking is going there with Patrick and Dom.

HBO released the first trailer for Looking: The Movie (airing July 23 on HBO at 10/9c), and it ends with Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett’s heretofore platonic pals lying in bed mulling a hookup. Well, Patrick is mulling it, at least. “You know this has been staring us in the face the whole time,” he tells Dom.

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In the pic, which promises to bring the short-lived series to a satisfying conclusion, Patrick “returns to San Francisco for the first time...

Fans of gone-too-soon TV shows almost always hope for a movie to wrap things up, but almost never get one. HBO’s “Looking” is the rare exception to that rule, as the romantic dramedy created by Michael Lannan is set to receive a one-off special to conclude the series next month. Avail yourself of the trailer for “Looking: The Movie” below.

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Andrew Haigh (“Weekend,” “45 Years”) is directing the special, which centers around the three gay men living in San Francisco at the heart of the series: Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett). Haigh wrote five episodes of the show and directed 10.

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The series ran for 18 episodes over two seasons, which aired between...