Tweet Two years ago I mourned the death of the “gay show.” In the early-mid 2000s cable networks boasted scripted shows with all-gay leads — Queer as Folk, Noah’s Arc, The L Word, DL Chronicles, Dante’s Cove – following post-Will & Grace buzz and advertiser demands for targeting. After those shows went off-air, broadcast and cable nets alike [...]
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‘Jack in a Box’ Creator On His WGA Nomination and Writing Jack “Happy”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 18th, 2012
Tweet Originally posted at Tubefilter In last week’s 30 Rock sixth season premiere, Liz “Cranky Sue” Lemon was, all of a sudden, happy! Fans saw her skipping with animated birds and smooching on a mystery man (James Marsden). It was about time. Sitcoms about cranks have two options: cling relentlessly to the joke or allow characters [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘It Gets Betterish’ Hates Lady Gaga
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 17th, 2011
Tweet Your friend sets you up on a blind date. So you head over to your local, non-profit, organic, trans-friendly laundromat and pick up a black shirt for the occasion. You meet the mystery man at a unpretentiously chic New York bar only to find out: he’s a Republican! What do you say? “I hope [...]
Fan Production as Industrial Response in ‘Transformative Works & Cultures’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 15th, 2011
Tweet Some of you may remember the web series The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else, a satirical show about Rasha, a Lebanese lesbian forced to date men to finance her book project. The series got a lot of coverage last year, from NPR to Jezebel, and a host of lesbian-focused blogs and websites. Super-syndicated across [...]
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No Comments »Web Series Spotlight: An Indie Series Goes Full-Length
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 3rd, 2011
Tweet Whenever any indie series makes it to its third season, it’s cause for celebration. But when a show enters its third season with full-length, 20-minute episodes, it raises an extra eyebrow. Drama Queenz is likely the web’s longest-running black gay web series. I’ve profiled it before, but creator Dane Joseph caught my attention after I saw [...]
TV’s Sci-Fi Queen Jane Espenson Returns to Comedy with ‘Husbands’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 12th, 2011
Tweet If you’re a sci-fi fan, you probably know Jane Espenson, who has written and produced some of the most ambitious television of the last ten years including Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the sadly cancelled Caprica. With over 40,000 followers, Espenson is among Hollywood’s few prominent female TV producers. This week [...]
Web Series Spotlight: Dark, Absurdist ‘Two Jasperjohns’ Spoofs Bears, Both Gay and Animal
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 23rd, 2011
Tweet “Web Series Spotlight” showcases an indie web series I feel is culturally relevant, artistically notable or simply interesting. Officially, I have no preferences for web shows. Unofficially, of course I do! And one thing I’ve been longing for is an LGBT series with the kind of wild abandon and ambition of TV’s wackier fare, [...]
‘Half Share,’ Niche Scripted Shows and the Tough Road to TV
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 19th, 2011
Tweet Full post at Tubefilter! If you haven’t seen or heard of it, Half-Share, a show about six gay men vacationing on Fire Island, is hilarious. But as Edge Media editor Steve Weinstein noted, it may be “the funniest sitcom you’ll never see on TV.” Despite praise from audiences at festivals and screenings, Half-Share, like [...]
‘Hollywood Houseboys’ Creator Ryan Hope on Reality TV, Independent Production and Trying to Make It
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 1st, 2011
Tweet Recently I wrote about the proliferation of gay reality series on the web, and I thought I’d published an email interview I did with the producer of one of the shows, Hollywood Houseboys. The show is quite good; it’s a well-cast and entertaining look at a oft-overlooked slice of Los Angeles. The series follows [...]
Gay Reality Shows Hit the Web: Should We Be Scared?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 1st, 2011
Tweet Is reality television bad for minorities? Black women are up in arms over the negative stereotypes perpetuated by the latest season of Celebrity Apprentice. The slew of “wife” shows aren’t so flattering to women either — see: Real Housewives, Mob Wives, Sister Wives, Bama Belles, Teen Mom, Hip Hop Wives, Basketball Wives, etc. Series like The [...]
