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Lisa Rinna is getting candid about some of her iconic soap roles. The Days of Our Lives alum doesn’t typically bat an eye at anything, but she was shocked when she had to kiss two different men on the same day.

Juicy Drama

Rinna took a trip down memory lane on the Who’s the A**hole? With Katya podcast. The actress was asked to share “the most juicy and exciting” soap role. Rinna immediately mentioned the time when she played Taylor McBridge on the ’90s primetime drama Melrose Place. It was a sultry soap centered around good-looking residents of an apartment complex.

“That was most fun by far,” Rinna explained. “She was nuts. And I could do anything.” There was a time when the script called for Rinna to kiss two men on the same day. “This was so funny. One day, I had to kiss two actors,...

The Directors Guild of America has named the nominees for its 2024 awards in the outstanding directorial achievement in television, commercials and documentary categories. “Shogun,” “The Bear” and “The Penguin” all lead with three nominations each.

The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.

Nominees for film and the Michael Apted award for first-time theatrical feature film will be announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8. Here are this year’s TV nominees:

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Dramatic Series

Alex Graves, The Diplomat, “Dreadnought” (Netflix)

Hiromi Kamata, Shōgun, “Ladies of the Willow World” (FX)

Issa Lopez, True Detective: Night Country, “Part 6” (HBO)

Directorial Team: Unit Production Manager: Mari Jo Winkler; First Assistant Director: Richard Graysmark

Frederick E.O. Toye, Shōgun, “Crimson Sky” (FX)

Jonathan Van Tulleken, Shōgun, “Anjin” (FX)

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Comedy Series

Lucia Aniello, Hacks, “Bulletproof” (Max)

Directorial Team: Unit Production Manager: Chris R. Robinson...

The Directors Guild of America has announced its TV, documentary and commercial award nominations for the 2025 DGA Awards.

The guild will reveal its theatrical feature film and first time feature film nominees on Wednesday.

The guild previously announced that Ang Lee would receive a lifetime achievement honor at the 77th annual DGA Awards.

The 2025 DGA Awards is set to take place on Saturday, Feb. 8.

A complete list of this year’s TV, documentary and commercial nominees follows.

Dramatic Series

Alex Graves, The Diplomat, “Dreadnought” (Netflix)

Hiromi Kamata, Shogun, “Ladies of the Willow World” (FX)

Issa LÓPEZ, True Detective: Night Country, “Part 6” (HBO)

Directorial Team:

Unit Production Manager: Mari Jo Winkler

First Assistant Director: Richard Graysmark

Frederick E.O. Toye, Shogun, “Crimson Sky” (FX)

Jonathan Van Tulleken, Shogun, “Anjin” (FX)

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Comedy Series

Lucia Aniello, Hacks, “Bulletproof” (Max)

Directorial Team:

Unit Production Manager: Chris R. Robinson

First Assistant Director: Jeff Rosenberg

Second...

Peacock has announced Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark, the first-ever live comedy special for the streamer. The comedy event will be hosted by the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update duo and will stream live with an in-person audience from The Bell House in Brooklyn.

Tune in on September 12 at 9 p.m. Et for a night of “drop-ins only,” featuring Colin and Michael’s favorite NYC club comics, fresh faces, and maybe even some names you already know and love.

Special guest appearances will feature both up-and-coming and established comics in New York. Grammy-nominated musical ensemble 1500 or Nothin’ will be the house band accompanying performances throughout the special.

Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark is the inaugural production for both 7F Project and No Notes Productions.

Colin Jost, Jeff Grosvenor, and Emily Hason of No Notes Productions; Michael Che (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...

You might be used to seeing Colin Jost and Michael Che just on Saturday nights, but this month, you’ll be able to catch them live on a Thursday. Peacock is set to air its first-ever live comedy special on Sept. 12, hosted by the “Weekend Update” duo.

“Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark” will stream live with an in-person audience from The Bell House in Brooklyn, bringing together “drop-in” comics only — meaning we don’t know who’s set to perform just yet. But, according to the NBCUniversal streamer, it’ll be “Colin and Michael’s favorite NYC club comics, fresh faces and maybe even some names you already know and love.”

The lineup also promises to feature both up-and-coming and established comedians, and will see the Grammy-nominated musical ensemble 1500 or Nothin’ as the house band.

You can watch the trailer below, in which Jost very nearly...

Peacock is getting into the live comedy business and tapping “Saturday Night Live” stars Colin Jost and Michael Che to host the event. “Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark,” the streamer’s first-ever live special, will air on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt.

The “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update duo will host the event from The Bell House in Brooklyn. Peacock did not announce any performers beyond Jost and Che, only describing the guests as “Colin and Michael’s favorite NYC club comics, fresh faces, and maybe even some names you already know and love. Watch live to see who hits the stage. Special guest appearances will feature both up-and-coming and established comics in New York.”

A house band, the Grammy-nominated musical ensemble 1500 or Nothin’, will accompany performances throughout the special.

“Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark” comes from Jost...

Peacock is now trying its hand at live comedy.

The streamer announced Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark, which will have the Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” duo hosting at The Bell House in Brooklyn. It will stream Sept. 12 at 9 p.m. Et and feature a rotation of the pair’s favorite New York City club comics, including fresh faces and likely some familiar ones as well. Grammy-nominated musical ensemble 1500 or Nothin’ is set to be the house band accompanying comics throughout the hour.

The announcement arrives as the market for stand-up specials is red hot. In fact, as platforms like Amazon and Hulu open their wallets, it has proved a bright spot in an otherwise bleak entertainment landscape. And while Peacock isn’t frequently involved in the increasingly common bidding wars, which have ratcheted up to eight figures for top comics, the platform has maintained a...

Peacock is getting into the live comedy business, the streamer announced on Tuesday, as Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark, a live special hosted by the Saturday Night Live duo, is set to premiere on the service on Thursday, September 12 at 6 p.m. Pt / 9 p.m. Et.

Peacock here takes a page from the playbook of Netflix, which broke ground when it ventured into live comedy with Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, the much-discussed 2023 special in which Rock addressed being slapped by Will Smith at the 94th Academy Awards. Whether New York After Dark is a one-off for Peacock, or reflective of a new, ongoing line of business for the streamer, isn’t yet clear.

Taped in front of an in-person audience at The Bell House in Brooklyn, Jost and Che’s hour-long special will be a night of “drop-ins only,” featuring their favorite New York City...

Lauren Gussis is developing a new Melrose Place reboot with three original stars returning. The cast is set to include Heather Locklear as Amanda Woodward, Laura Leighton as Sydney Andrews, and Daphne Zuniga as Jo Reynolds. The reboot will rekindle old traumas, romances, resentments, and secrets among the original Melrose Place residents.

A reboot of Melrose Place is in development. The original primetime soap, which itself was a spinoff of the hit teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, ran on Fox for seven seasons between 1992 and 1999. The ensemble show followed the interpersonal drama of a group of twenty- and thirtysomethings living in a Los Angeles apartment complex. The show eventually ran for more than 200 episodes, spawning the short-lived spinoff Models Inc. in 1994 and a previous 18-episode CW reboot in 2009.

Per Variety, a new Melrose Place reboot is in the works from Emmy-nominated writer Lauren Gussis, whose previous work includes writing on...

Melrose Place was one of the most popular Primetime soaps from the 1990s. Now, several Melrose Place cast members are getting back together for a reunion, including the man who helped launch the show to success.

Here is who is reuniting, where it will be, and how you can see them later in 2024.

Cast Returning For Melrose Place Reunion

Melrose Place was a spinoff from Beverly Hills, 90210, and started when Grant Show’s Jake Hanson made an appearance on 90210 as a backdoor pilot, luring Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) to Melrose Place to see him again – which is how the pilot took place.

Fans met the colorful characters who lived at Melrose Place, including Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro) and his wife Jane Mancini (Josie Bissett). Andrew Shue played writer Billy Campbell, Courtney Thorne-Smith played Alison Parker, and Doug Savant played gay social worker Matt Fielding. Also playing regulars on Melrose Place was major stars,...

Cillian Murphy and writer, director, and producer Christopher Nolan on the set of ‘Oppenheimer’ (Photo © Universal Pictures)

Oppenheimer writer/director Christopher Nolan continues to rack up wins, with the Directors Guild of America honoring the critically acclaimed (and this year’s Oscar favorite) filmmaker with the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film award. Judd Apatow hosted this year’s DGA Awards ceremony, which presented honorary awards to David Nutter (2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Television Direction), unit production manager Janet Knutsen (2024 Frank Capra Achievement Award), and Gary Natoli (2024 Franklin J. Schaffner Award).

Presenters included Matt Bomer, Rose Byrne, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zooey Deschanel, David Duchovny, Jay Ellis, Carla Gallo, and Ilana Glazer. Ryan Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Jonah Hill, Patty Jenkins, Rashida Jones, Daniel Kwan, Eva Longoria, Cillian Murphy, Nasim Pedrad, and Mark Ruffalo were also on hand to help celebrate the best of 2024.

Additional presenters included Rachel Sennott, Daniel Scheinert, Emma Stone,...

The Directors Guild of America held its 76th annual awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton. Christopher Nolan took home the night’s top honor for Oppenheimer. Celine Song took home the prize for first-time theatrical film for Past Lives.

The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in 75 years. The group handed its top trophy to the Daniels for Everything Everywhere All at Once last year, and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert went on to snag the Academy Award a month later, becoming only the third duo to claim that prized statuette.

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Here are the winners at the 2024 Directors Guild Awards:

Feature Film

Christopher Nolan

Oppenheimer

(Universal Pictures)

Directoral Team:

Unit Production Managers: Thomas Hayslip, Nathan Kelly, Rafael Lima (New Jersey / New York Unit) First...

Christopher Nolan has won the feature-film prize from the Directors Guild of America for “Oppenheimer,” reinforcing his film’s status as the heavy favorite this awards season. The honor went to Nolan at the end of the 76th annual DGA Awards, which took place on Saturday night in Beverly Hills.

In the other film categories, Celine Song won the award for first-time directing for her gentle drama “Past Lives” and Mstyslav Chernov won the documentary award for “20 Days in Mariupol,” his on-the-ground report from the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Peter Hoar won the drama-series award for “The Last of Us,” in a category in which the other four nominees were all from different episodes of “Succession.”

The award for Comedy Series directing went to Christopher Storer for the “Fishes” episode of “The Bear.” Sarah Adina Smith won the award for TV movie or limited series for...

The 76th Directors Guild of America Awards took place on Saturday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. Pt with Judd Apatow hosting the in-person, non-televised ceremony. These kudos honored the best helmers of the year in movies and television, as voted on by more than 18,000 members of the directing guild. Scroll down for the 2024 DGA Awards winners list in three film and eight TV categories.

As always, the all-important feature film category is one of the most telling bellwethers for the eventual Best Director Oscar. The guild and the academy have only disagreed for Best Director eight times over the past seven decades, with the last three years lining up perfectly for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Jane Campion (2021’s “The Power of the Dog”) and Chloé Zhao (2020’s “Nomadland”).

This year, just three of the DGA’s nominees also reaped directing Oscar bids: Yorgos Lanthimos...

The Directors Guild of America announced the nominees for television, commercials and documentary for its 76th annual DGA Awards today, a list headed by three-time winner Bill Hader and installments of the third and final season of HBO’s “Succession,” which claimed four of the five Drama Series nomination slots – the fifth going to an episode of fellow HBO hour “The Last of Us.”

The Comedy Series nomination lineup features the directors of a pair of episodes of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” along with two installments of FX’s “The Bear” (including a repeat nomination for showrunner Christopher Storer – the acclaimed “Fishes” edition from Season 2 of the series – and a first for comedian and actor Ramy Youssef).

SEEBill Hader will set multiple SAG Award records with win for ‘Barry’

The Apple TV+ limited series “Lessons in Chemistry” also scored multiple bids in the Movies For Television/Limited Series category with three.

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the psychological thriller Definition of Fear. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Written and directed by James Simpson, Definition of Fear has the following synopsis, provided by Simpson himself: Four beautiful girl friends spend the weekend at a holiday cabin by a lake, under the pretense of a ‘girlie weekend away’ organised by Sarah Fording. Sarah has a hidden agenda to secretly film her three friends as part of her Phd Thesis in Psychology. She has set up the weekend to carry out her experiment and secretly film it using hidden cameras.

To help readers navigate the "Gays of Our Lives" column, we've decided to add a handy Table of Contents. For those of you who love to read the entire column, start to finish, nothing has changed. But if you're in a hurry and want to check out this week's spoilers right this minute, all you need do is click on "Scoops & Spoilers" and you'll be whisked away! The same goes for each Gool feature including "In My Humble Opinion", "Gool Theater", "Gool Newsbeat" and all the rest of the great Gool content.

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The Gool Hot 12!

In honor of AfterElton.com’s Hot 100 voting currently underway, I've decided to choose the 12 hottest soap guys we cover weekly in the Gays of our Lives.