Queer As Folk Reboot Bravo Bound

[Faulkner]

I just wish we had more gay series. There are a TON on the web, serving almost every niche, but you have to search to find them, and they of course lack the budgets of network series, and it shows. I’ve consistently seen a lot of praise for “The Outs” on Vimeo.

 

I feel like the audience often wants gay series that are basically porn without penetration, with better actors and more plot between the action scenes. It makes for a very limited view of how gay men move and function in the world.

Edited December 20, 2018 by Costello

[All My Shadows]

Another show about gay men looking for dick in the club every weekend doesn't really strike my fancy. There are other varieties of us out there.

[Skin]

 

That's not what the original series was about. Especially not in the later seasons.

[Faulkner]

Moving to the NBCUNIVERSAL streaming service:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/queer-as-folk-reboot-one-us-is-lying-move-nbcuniversals-streaming-service-1232203

[John]

I wonder if this would work. I wish it was a continuation of the Showtime series.

[Faulkner]

This show is likely to be more diverse. Hopefully landing on streaming means it can stay a bit racy.

[DRW50]

Given how little interest Bravo has in gay men who aren't purses, it's for the best.

[Vee]

I'm just praying Bravo doesn't find a way to make it star Andy Cohen.

[Faulkner]

Wow, Peacock is picking up the reboot, and it’ll be set in New Orleans like I had suggested:

https://tvline.com/2021/04/08/queer-as-folk-reboot-peacock-streaming-new-series/

 

[Soaplovers]

 

Good choice of setting.

[Chris B]

I'm honestly impressed with Peacock. They have a lot of content and their original shows (including the ones from overseas they acquired) read like an elevated NBC experience, as it should. They have a good diversity of content and the upcoming stuff is hopefully going to bring them more attention. I know they have this, The Best Man tv series and three Housewives series coming. I hope it all works out for them because this could be a new successful hub for diverse content. 

[Skin]

 

Likely due to name recognition which will separate it from a sea of content that viewers have to wade through that isn't recognizable to the main demographics. A lot of times people call the series a reboot, when it has little of the same trappings that the original series had.

 

I feel like what made QAF so successful is that it was less a show about gay men, than it was a same sex soap opera that women enjoyed watching a lot. It was also somewhat topical and heavily political in the later seasons, that sort of caused the series to have a bit of an identity crisis from season 3 onward. I wouldn't be adverse to seeing how Mike, Ben, Hunter, Justin and Brian ended up. But honestly all of the characters were sort of played out by the end of the series. I think this show needs to define what it's scope is in order to be successful. If it's just going to be a bunch of love triangles, sex scenes, and hook-up culture it's not going to survive. That's more or less what QAF was in it's first two seasons. I think what made it progress was the more political, culture, social-economic discussions they started having around season 3, and what they ended the series on. I don't really trust the reboot to do that, and engender meaningful conversations of what that now looks like in the gay community in 2021. 

 

I guess my question with this is -- what would make this different from Looking, which also had a similar premise but ended up ending after two seasons and a film? 

Edited April 13, 2021 by Skin

[Faulkner]

They’ve committed to making this series “diverse,” which at least gets my attention. The writer who is doing the reboot, Stephen Dunn, also worked on Apple TV’s immigration series “Little America,” which I haven’t seen but has been well received. Dunn is white, but episode he wrote and directed dealt with a gay male refugee from Syria, which suggests he won’t shy away from current-day politics.

[Skin]

Yeah, the most meaningful stories from QAF was the violence that the LGBTQ+ community experiences (Justin's bashing), living with AIDS/HIV (Ben), intolerant families (most of the cast experienced this), testicular cancer (Brian), and then the same-sex marriage and human rights stories (all of season 5). There were other stories that also happened within the show which I think we thoughtful and provoking during it's time. I think QAF doesn't get a lot of credit for advancing a lot of those (unpopular) topics during the Bush years (2000-2007).  It would be interesting to see a series that tackled these topics that are these equivalent's to the community in 2021.   

[Faulkner]

Casting news for the New Orleans-set reboot:

https://deadline.com/2021/09/queer-as-folk-candace-grace-johnny-sibilly-devin-way-fin-argus-cast-1234825787/