GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, one of the largest entertainment journalists’ groups in the world, announced the winners of the Dorian TV Awards 2026, again recognising the best in television and streaming from mainstream to queer-themed programming.
Please note that the GALECA Dorian TV Awards 2026 largely reflect TV programming in the United States of America and titles available worldwide on streaming platforms. The nominations do not reflect country-specific TV titles outside of the United States.
GALECA’s members named Heated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance that became a cultural sensation out of the gate this year, both Best TV Drama and Best LGBTQ TV Show. François Arnaud, enjoying a breakout turn as a closeted veteran hockey player who comes out on the ice, won Best Supporting TV Performance—Drama, while show creator Jacob Tierney was named this year’s GALECA LGBTQIA+ Trailblazer for “creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity.”
The showbiz satire Hacks, a longtime favourite with GALECA voters, was named Best TV Comedy and Best Written TV Show, while star Jean Smart won Best TV Performance – Comedy (her third consecutive win here) for Hacks’ fifth and final season.
Hacks – Dorian TV Awards 2026
GALECA Vice President Gerrick Kennedy, who served as this year’s TV awards chair, says, “What excites me most about this year’s Dorian winners is the range—the swooning devotion of Heated Rivalry, the tender complexity of The Boyfriend, the bravery that cuts through Half Man, and the community memory being kept alive in Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery. To think, queer stories once needed to squeeze into a narrow lens to get made.”
He added, “There is always room for progress, but this year’s winners prove our community’s stories are as varied and worth telling as any other.”
Apple TV+ had a breakout year at the Dorians with two bold new series. The post-apocalyptic dark comedy Pluribus earned star Rhea Seehorn the Dorian for Best TV Performance—Drama. Pluribus also took home the award for the Most Visually Striking TV Show alongside FX’s Alien: Earth. The horror-comedy Widow’s Bay was named Best Genre TV Show, with Kate O’Flynn taking the award for Best Supporting TV Performance – Comedy.
Widow’s Bay – Dorian TV Awards 2026
Puerto Rican superstar rapper Bad Bunny and his pava-sporting backup dancers at the historic Super Bowl LX Halftime Show were awarded Best TV Musical Performance, besting a field that included Sabrina Carpenter duetting with the Muppets and Audra McDonald’s belting it out viral-style on the Tony Awards.
For a third consecutive year, Alan Cumming’s cheeky competition series The Traitors (US) took home Best Reality Show, and Netflix’s frothy lesboerotic soap The Hunting Wives was named Campiest TV Show.
Other honorees included Richard Gadd’s Half Man (Best TV Movie or Miniseries), Netflix’s gay-Marine dramedy Boots (Best Unsung TV Show), Squid Game (Best Non-English Language TV Show), and the Japanese reality hit The Boyfriend (Best LGBTQ Non-English Language TV Show).
A year of mocking JD Vance and Donald Trump earned South Park Best Animated Show honours, while The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, booted off the air after a political showdown, garnered Best Current Affairs Program. Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery took Best LGBTQ TV Documentary or Documentary Series.
In special career honours, Hacks star Hannah Einbinder earned GALECA’s Wilde Wit Award. And, after three seasons and 21 years, Lisa Kudrow was named a GALECA TV Icon for her performance in the final season of The Comeback.
Half Man – Dorian TV Awards 2026
DORIAN TV AWARDS 2026 WINNERS
BEST TV DRAMA
Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max / Sky)
Industry (BBC / HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV COMEDY
Hacks (HBO Max)
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Shrinking (Apple TV)
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max / Sky)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Half Man (BBC / HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
Half Man (BBC / HBO Max)
All Her Fault (Peacock)
Beef (Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette (FX/Hulu)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
Squid Game (Netflix)
Blossoms of Shanghai (Criterion Channel)
Dan Da Dan (Netflix)
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Crunchyroll)
Mussolini: Son of the Century (Mubi)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Chosen Home (Netflix)
Go for It, Nakamura-kun! (Crunchyroll)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
Tremembé (Amazon MGM)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW
Hacks (HBO Max)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max / Sky)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (Apple TV)
Marisa Abela, Industry (BBC / HBO Max)
Jamie Bell, Half Man (BBC / HBO Max)
Carrie Coon, The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Myha’la Herrold, Industry (BBC / HBO Max)
Mark Ruffalo, Task (HBO Max)
Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max / Sky)
Hudson Williams, Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max/ Sky)
Noah Wyle, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
François Arnaud, Heated Rivalry (Crave / HBO Max / Sky)
Patrick Ball, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Isa Briones, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Richard Gadd, Half Man (BBC / HBO Max)
Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Ken Leung, Industry (BBC / HBO Max)
Charles Melton, Beef (Netflix)
Sepideh Moafi, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, Euphoria (HBO Max)
Karolina Wydra, Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Wonder Man (Disney+)
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Elle Fanning, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown (FX/Hulu)
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback (HBO Max)
Dan Levy, Big Mistakes (Netflix)
Matthew Rhys, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Tim Robinson, The Chair Company (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Kate O’Flynn, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Leslie Bibb, Hacks (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons (Netflix)
Paul W. Downs, Hacks (HBO Max)
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (HBO Max)
Harrison Ford, Shrinking (Apple TV)
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Ashley Padilla, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Michelle Pfeiffer, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Meg Stalter, Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Bad Bunny, The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Audra McDonald, “Rose’s Turn,” The 78th Tony Awards
Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq, Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey and Alice Smith, “I Lied to You,” The 98th Academy Awards
Sabrina Carpenter and The Muppets, “Manchild,” The Muppet Show
Sabrina Carpenter, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, “Islands in the Stream,” The Muppet Show
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW
Boots (Netflix)
English Teacher (FX/Hulu)
The Four Seasons (Netflix)
From (MGM+)
Murderbot (Apple TV)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (CBS)
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Hot Ones (YouTube)
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO Max)
Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV)
Kylie (Netflix)
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (HBO Max)
Selena y Los Dinos (Netflix)
The Yoghurt Shop Murders (HBO Max)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Hulu)
Club Cumming (WOW Presents Plus)
Enigma (HBO Max)
It’s Dorothy! (Peacock)
Murder in Glitterball City (HBO Max)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
It: Welcome to Derry (Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST REALITY SHOW
The Traitors (Peacock)
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV/Paramount+)
Top Chef (Bravo)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW
South Park (Paramount+)
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)
Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)
Long Story Short (Netflix)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW
Pluribus (Apple TV) (tie)
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu) (tie)
Euphoria (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW
The Hunting Wives (Netflix)
All’s Fair (Hulu)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Palm Royale (Apple TV)
The Traitors (Peacock)
WILDE WIT AWARD
Hannah Einbinder
Stephen Colbert
Cole Escola
Alan Cumming
Richard Gadd
GALECA TV ICON AWARD
Lisa Kudrow
GALECA LGBTQIA+ TV TRAILBLAZER
Jacob Tierney
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