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Why Has Showtime Abandoned Gays? (Death of the &#;Gay Show,&#; Part II) January 19,
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Showtime went from the Queer as Folk channel to the residence of such butch programming as The Tudors (however amazing it is).This essay was originally published at SpliceToday: comment there!
I&#;m continuing my discussion of the state of lgbtq+ representations on television with a glance at Showtime&#;s evolution in original programming. (UPDATE3/23: On last night&#;s premieres of Nurse Jackie and United States of Tara, Showtime showed a bit more gay: Marshall, Tara&#;s gay son, started dealing with politics at school; on Jackie, the narrative suggests Thor, the other, uglier male lover, might take Momo&#;s place as &#;gay best friend.&#; Signs of change or too little too late?)
We only necessitate to look at Haaz Sleiman, television&#;s hottest gay nature, who is on the job chase, cast off Showtime&#;s Nurse Jackie, to see what has happened to the network.
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Showtime Develops Coming-Out Series
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Showtime is developing a existence series documenting gay people coming out to friends and family.
The project is titled Way Out. In each episode, a closeted individual reveals their accurate sexual orientation during a group meeting.
Showtime has ordered a pilot presentation from Bryn Freedman, a former journalist and executive producer of A&E&#;s Intervention, as part of its attempt to bolster its unscripted slate.
&#;It&#;s a show that has universal appeal because everybody can relate to having part of their lives hidden,&#; said Freedman, who is executive producing the project with Evan Weiss and Mark Degenkolb. &#;The show is all about getting to understand the person &#; why they have been reluctant to come out and what it looks prefer to be living a lie, (and) what it is like when people are trying to place you up with dates.&#;
Out will show the person&#;s closeted life, document the moment they reveal their orientation to friends and family, then chart how relationships are changed. Although still in the pilot stage, S
&#;Work in Progress&#; Review: The Queerest Show on TV Is About a Suicidal Butch With OCD
Following the premiere of &#;The L Word: Generation Q,&#; queer audiences who lined up outside viewing parties for the nostalgia-TV event of the year would be wise to leave the TV on for another half-hour. If they do, they will be delightfully surprised by &#;Work in Progress,&#; the most radical lgbtq+ show to ever make its way to television.
Showtime&#;s unused half-hour comedy stars co-writer Abby McEnany, a Chicago improv mainstay who created the show with director Tim Mason (Lilly Wachowski is also an EP and writer). The semi-autobiographical series follows Abby — a suicidal, amusing, heavyset butch with OCD — as she embarks on a relationship with a much younger trans man. In the four half-hour episodes provided to critics, &#;Work in Progress&#; sensitively mines comedy from body shame, mental illness, trans literacy, consent, and gender policing — all through Abby&#;s hilariously neurotic point of view.
Playing a fictionalized version of herself, McEnany is capable to nav
TO: Gene Falk, Senior Vice President
Showtime
Matt Farber, Consultant
MTV
FROM: Stephen Tropiano, PopMatters Columnist
RE: Homosexual TV Network
DATE: April 10,
Dear Sirs:
I am pleased MTV and Showtime are joining forces to design a gay television network. Actually, I&#;m not surprised, because it&#;s clear you have not only been keeping your gay and lesbian viewers and subscribers in mind when making programming decisions, but you have also repeatedly shown a genuine commitment to social and political issues that are important to the gay community.
As you know, MTV produced Anatomy of a Hate Crime, the first of the three made-for-TV movies about Matthew Shepard. The film&#;s premiere back in launched the network&#;s year-long campaign against hate-crimes. In addition to breaking new land with the first male lover situation comedy (Brothers assist in ), cable drama about AIDS (As Is, ), and dramatic series (Queer as Folk), Showtime has produced some quality gay-themed films, like Blind Faith (), Execution of Justice (), and Dirty Pictures (). But now, instead of being limi