There have been LGBT shows in the 15 years since Queer as Folk like Will and Grace, The L Word, The New Normal, Vicious and Looking for example.
I'm not sure that Cucumber and Banana are to be ground breaking but I imagine RTD isn't aiming it to be.
Not British ones is what I meant. Those are all American, apart from Vicious which I hadn't come across before. (I did think this was a British forum mainly)
Also something else that came to me to check; it will be good if Cucumber Banana Tofu has gay characters played by actual gay people. (or if it's a real-life/reality series). I just looked up Queer as Folk and the three main gay characters were all played by straight actors. Although they played the parts very well!
Looks like Queer As Folk with a touch of Skins and Pulling.
There have been many shows looking at the issue of developing sexuality such as Skins and the awkward side of inter-generational/interracial/same sex relationships (Shameless, Lip Service, Me and Mrs Jones, Linda Green), there's going to be be The Line of Beauty about London in the 80s about private school boys from Oxford having gay relationships... there making a gay spy drama too. Not a drama with a spy who happens to be gay, the emphasis is on the "it's different because they're gay" aspect of it.
I'm all for proportional representation but this isn't new, it's just more of it across three channels by the guy who trod this turf when it actually was fresh, new and challenging. I'm sure there will be some good performances but this screams of a gimmick where they've tried to make more out of one single idea, like that Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper.
Not British ones is what I meant. Those are all American, apart from Vicious which I hadn't come across before. (I did think this was a British forum mainly)
Also something else that came to me to check; it will be good if Cucumber Banana Tofu has gay characters played by actual gay people. (or if it's a real-life/reality series). I just looked up Queer as Folk and the three main gay characters were all played by straight actors. Although they played the parts very well!
Andrew Hayden Smith who's in Banana is gay but the main characters in Cucumber are played by straight actors but I could be wrong.
Not British ones is what I meant. Those are all American, apart from Vicious which I hadn't come across before. (I did think this was a British forum mainly)
Any interest that might have been deeply buried was destroyed by their ridiculous insistence on throwing the titles into everything else. It became so annoying that I have no interest in what it's all about. I'd rather watch the cats lick their behinds.
During links at the back end of last year, Channel 4 constantly replaced words with cucumber, banana or tofu... which was lame at first, and gradually became more and more annoying. If you have to push something so hard, it's probably going to be a load of old tosh, not that I plan to find out, like I said... we got sick of hearing about it at times when there was no need for it be mentioned. Randomly changing a word to 'cucumber' in an intro for Countdown is pretty pointless... and it wasn't once of twice either , they kept doing it, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, see... pretty pointless.
During links at the back end of last year, Channel 4 constantly replaced words with cucumber, banana or tofu... which was lame at first, and gradually became more and more annoying.
A lot of barely concealed homophobia on this thread already, I'm straight but I might have it whirl, it looks quite lively.
Here we go anyone who hasn't immediately expressed that this will be the greatest television event in history and missing it should be made a capital offence is always going to tarred with the brush of homophobia.
Here we go anyone who hasn't immediately expressed that this will be the greatest television event in history and missing it should be made a capital offence is always going to tarred with the brush of homophobia.
Not for me, so sue me.
That's quite an overreaction! So far just one poster (who happens to be straight) has suggested that there might be an element of homophobia in the dismissal of these programmes before they've even been on.
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Not British ones is what I meant. Those are all American, apart from Vicious which I hadn't come across before. (I did think this was a British forum mainly)
Also something else that came to me to check; it will be good if Cucumber Banana Tofu has gay characters played by actual gay people. (or if it's a real-life/reality series). I just looked up Queer as Folk and the three main gay characters were all played by straight actors. Although they played the parts very well!
There have been many shows looking at the issue of developing sexuality such as Skins and the awkward side of inter-generational/interracial/same sex relationships (Shameless, Lip Service, Me and Mrs Jones, Linda Green), there's going to be be The Line of Beauty about London in the 80s about private school boys from Oxford having gay relationships... there making a gay spy drama too. Not a drama with a spy who happens to be gay, the emphasis is on the "it's different because they're gay" aspect of it.
I'm all for proportional representation but this isn't new, it's just more of it across three channels by the guy who trod this turf when it actually was fresh, new and challenging. I'm sure there will be some good performances but this screams of a gimmick where they've tried to make more out of one single idea, like that Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper.
Andrew Hayden Smith who's in Banana is gay but the main characters in Cucumber are played by straight actors but I could be wrong.
I'm looking forward to it. Should be good.
So is it about the state of a man's erection in three stages, cock and ball torture or cognitive behavioral therapy?
I agree. In fact, most use of the word "community" is unthinking gibberish.
I've seen the ads and I can see the mindset of those behind it with the stupid names and their meanings.
Nope, not interested.
Lip Service.
I'm going to watch it first before I make up my mind! Trailers don't always give the full picture.
Apparently the "stupid names" originated in a Chinese scientific study of impotence.
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/sex-study-spotlights-erectile-dysfunction-in-china/
What on earth is an eight year old hipster wannabe
I was wondering that too!
Me too
I don't see any.
During links at the back end of last year, Channel 4 constantly replaced words with cucumber, banana or tofu... which was lame at first, and gradually became more and more annoying. If you have to push something so hard, it's probably going to be a load of old tosh, not that I plan to find out, like I said... we got sick of hearing about it at times when there was no need for it be mentioned. Randomly changing a word to 'cucumber' in an intro for Countdown is pretty pointless... and it wasn't once of twice either , they kept doing it, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, see... pretty pointless.
There isn't any.
But there is always one who jumps on a PC bandwagon. "You MUST like LGBT programming or you're homophobic".
Its akin to the idiots who call those who detest the actions of the Israeli state as "anti-semitic".
These people aren't worth engaging with, they have issues.
OK - I've never heard any of those links.
So what is an eight year old hipster wannabe, im still wondering
Here we go anyone who hasn't immediately expressed that this will be the greatest television event in history and missing it should be made a capital offence is always going to tarred with the brush of homophobia.
Not for me, so sue me.
That's quite an overreaction! So far just one poster (who happens to be straight) has suggested that there might be an element of homophobia in the dismissal of these programmes before they've even been on.