Well, living in Australia, I haven't seen any of those shows. You totally trump my crankiness about not having the most recent "Battlestar Galactica" episodes airing on my cable because I live in Canada. (I haven't seen episode 2.14 yet because it's not finished downloading.)
"Out of Practice" is a okay sitcom about a family of doctors. The daughter who's an ER doctor, played by Paula Marshall (Rebecca James on "Veronica Mars"), is a lesbian. She's a very believable lesbian (especially since it's a sitcom).
"Crumbs" is a new sitcom that stars Fred Savage as a Hollywood screenwriter who returns home to help his family after his mother (Jane Curtin) has a mental breakdown when her husband leaves her. Fred Savage's character is gay, but he's not out to his family. It's an okay show, and his character is portrayed alright (he's supposed to be the sanest one in the family, I believe).
it worries me that The Office and maybe My Name is Earl are just using gay characters for a laugh. Good news - there's good portrayals on both shows! In the pilot for "My Name is Earl", Earl overcomes his small-town America homophobia and ends up becoming friends with Kenny (who's adorable and appears in multiple episodes - he even gets a boyfriend in an episode!!).
On "the Office" (the American version), we discover that one of the staff in the office (Oscar) is gay and has a partner he lives with, but that revelation isn't played for laughs. The humour is actually that Dwight (who's really dorky and kind of a loser) meets Oscar and his partner but doesn't notice that they're gay (so we actually laugh at his obliviousness).
Bring on the gay Oscars! (As if awards shows aren't already gay enough :) Oh yeah!! I love the Oscars for it's over-the-topness!! I've VERY excited that Jon Stewart is hosting!
Just like slash, I'm sure there's good and bad. ;)
But it would still be awesome to see what's in that file! I heard about this sitcom script that floated around Hollywood about a terrorist cell!! Apparently the premise was that the guys start to realize that they love America, but still ... a terrorist cell?!! I read that the script was hilarious, and all the producers loved it but no one wanted to produce it for obvious reasons.
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"Out of Practice" is a okay sitcom about a family of doctors. The daughter who's an ER doctor, played by Paula Marshall (Rebecca James on "Veronica Mars"), is a lesbian. She's a very believable lesbian (especially since it's a sitcom).
"Crumbs" is a new sitcom that stars Fred Savage as a Hollywood screenwriter who returns home to help his family after his mother (Jane Curtin) has a mental breakdown when her husband leaves her. Fred Savage's character is gay, but he's not out to his family. It's an okay show, and his character is portrayed alright (he's supposed to be the sanest one in the family, I believe).
it worries me that The Office and maybe My Name is Earl are just using gay characters for a laugh. Good news - there's good portrayals on both shows! In the pilot for "My Name is Earl", Earl overcomes his small-town America homophobia and ends up becoming friends with Kenny (who's adorable and appears in multiple episodes - he even gets a boyfriend in an episode!!).
On "the Office" (the American version), we discover that one of the staff in the office (Oscar) is gay and has a partner he lives with, but that revelation isn't played for laughs. The humour is actually that Dwight (who's really dorky and kind of a loser) meets Oscar and his partner but doesn't notice that they're gay (so we actually laugh at his obliviousness).
Bring on the gay Oscars! (As if awards shows aren't already gay enough :) Oh yeah!! I love the Oscars for it's over-the-topness!! I've VERY excited that Jon Stewart is hosting!
Just like slash, I'm sure there's good and bad. ;)
But it would still be awesome to see what's in that file! I heard about this sitcom script that floated around Hollywood about a terrorist cell!! Apparently the premise was that the guys start to realize that they love America, but still ... a terrorist cell?!! I read that the script was hilarious, and all the producers loved it but no one wanted to produce it for obvious reasons.
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