Showtime has set a fall premiere for its restricted sequence Fellow Travelers, starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. Fellow Travelers will make its streaming debut on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan starting Friday, October 27 earlier than its linear debut on Sunday, October 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. The sequence will even premiere on Paramount+ on October 27 in Canada and on October 28 in all of the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Korea, Italy, Germany Switzerland and Austria.
Jelani Alladin (The Walking Dead World Beyond), Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls) and Noah J. Ricketts (American Gods) additionally star.
Created by Oscar-nominated author Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) based mostly on Thomas Mallon’s novel, Fellow Travelers is a love story and political thriller, chronicling the clandestine romance of two very completely different males who meet within the shadow of McCarthy-era Washington. Bomer performs charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the scenes profession in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – till he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a younger man brimming with idealism and non secular religion. They start a romance simply as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare warfare on “subversives and sexual deviants,” initiating one of many darkest durations in Twentieth-century American historical past. Over the course of 4 many years, we observe our 5 primary characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Alladin), Lucy (Williams), and Frankie (Ricketts) – as they cross paths by means of the Vietnam War protests of the Nineteen Sixties, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the Seventies and the AIDS disaster of the Nineteen Eighties, whereas going through obstacles on the planet and in themselves.
Bomer and Nyswaner govt produce with Robbie Rogers (All American, My Policeman) and Dee Johnson. Daniel Minahan (Halston, American Crime Story: Versace) govt produces and in addition directs the primary two episodes. Fellow Travelers is co-produced by Fremantle and Showtime.
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