flash forwarD
A mysterious event causes people to experience their lives six months into the
future, and is supposed to be the next Lost.
Queer Factor: Great show premise—if it worked in reverse.
Queer Detractor: This is the show that takes the old time slot for Ugly
Betty. Insert a boo hiss here.
NBc
Queer Detractor: Will not have Sarah Jessica Parker—sigh. No wonder
GLAAD recently gave you a last place showing on their annual list of LGBT-related
material on the tube! Step it up, CBS!
coMMuniTy
Community refers to the college variety where people try to better themselves.
Yawn.
fox
Queer Factor: Star Joel McHale dishes on celebrities on The Soup with the
glee
panache of a seasoned gay man.
Glee is a show about a high
Queer Detractor: I don’t think jabs at Miley Cyrus will be the name of
school Glee Club and it stars
this game.
openly gay actress Jane
Lynch.
cBS
Queer Factor: See
above.
The gooD wife
Queer Detractor: The
Julianna Margulies plays a de-
one episode that already
fense attorney in this legal drama.
aired was criticized for
stereotypical characters.
Queer Factor: Has Mr. Big
IE - gays crazy for musicals. Uh oh, did I forget
(Chris Noth) from Sex and the City
to DVR a special airing of Liza with a Z? It was on cable tonight, I
and Christine Baranski, who used
can’t go on!
to booze it up on Cybil many years ago.
Shows Already In Progress
Queer Factor: The
titular RN takes so
HBO’S hung
many pills; she’s a one-
woman Valley of the
HBO’s Hung is about a down-and-out
Dolls! Sparkle, Jackie,
school teacher (Thomas Jane) who
sparkle!
turns to a life of prostitution in order
Queer Detrac-
to make ends meet. Totally relatable,
tor: With her
I mean who hasn’t been there, right?
haircut and ballsy
Never mind.
attitude, Falco
would have made
Queer Factor: Three words why
a great TV lesbian!
you should watch – Name. Value.
Alone.
Queer Detractor: He bats for the other team. Cut. Print. that’s A wrap!
And, wouldn’t ya know it – most of the good shows “seem” to be on ABC.
SHOwtIme’S nurse Jackie Great! Looks like I have egg on my face after my earlier alphabetical diatribe.
Sure, Nurse Jackie on Showtime has gotten flack from real-life RN’s, but it is one Wait? Is that what that was, oh shoot! Yes, puns are meant to be intended. Until
of the best medical series on at present. Take that, Grey’s Anatomy! next time, that’s all of the news that’s fit to print!
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