A Roundup of Recent Queer TV News!

May 4, 2023
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Hey there, Queers and nears! Happy May! There isn't a JT meme in sight, but it's here, and we also have a lot of queer TV news that I am very excited about! Here's what's been buzzing in the Queer TV realm!

wow I didn’t see one “it’s gonna be May” *NSYNC meme yesterday — we are truly evolving as a culture.
— ÐΔ₦ PØŁ¥ΔҜ (@danpolyak) May 1, 2023

Today, we welcome back the hilarious scripted series by former SNL head writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, The Other Two, for its third season on HBO Max. Do we call it Max yet? Anywho, the story follows Brooke and Cary Dubek, trying to figure out their career and future goals as their 13-year-old brother is thrown into endless superstardom after going viral. Helena Yorke and Drew Taggert portray the two flailing siblings getting mixed up in hilarious hi-jinks that meld pop culture and millennial ennui while trying to break it big as a publicist and an actor, respectively. Molly Shannon, Ken Marino, and Case Walker round out the show's tutelar cast that keeps improving as it goes on, garnering 94% and 96% in their first two seasons. This season sees Cary finally seeing real success, by his standards, on his show Night Nurse, Brooke thriving in her career and in love with the sexy Josh Segarra, who portrays her on & off-again love interest Lance. Chase turns 18, and the fans and cougars are hilariously excited about it, and Molly Shannon's character, mom Pat Dubek, reminisces about their old lives after she also struck wild success. Tune in on May 4th on HBO Max for their return.

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Brooke asking her openly gay brother Cary if he would be mad if she went somewhere "anti-gay" for her honeymoon sets the tone already. So ready.

It's almost time to say "Hi" again to Nick, Charlie, and friends! Heartstopper, the LGBTQ+ graphic novel, and webcomic turned Queer TV series distributed by Netflix, returns on August 3rd! I don't know about you, but Alice Oseman's beautiful tale had me in a slight chokehold last year. The innocent slow burn of Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson was filled with hope and promise many of us did not experience at that age. Lauded for its tone and pacing, the acclaimed series has won multiple awards for its acting and writing and praise for its portrayal of LGBTQ+ youth. John Locke and Kit Connor have played the two leads to much fanfare and have captured the frightening and exciting feeling of being queer, young, and in love. Most of the cast is set to return with the addition of Leila Khan as friend Sahar, Jack Barton as Nick's antagonist brother, Thibault de Montalembert as Nick's father, and Bradley Riches as classmate James McEwan. The series is also renewed for a third season currently in production.

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Hold on to your hats, queens. Patrik Ian-Polk just made a whole bunch of gays happy when he announced at the We Speak Out USA "I Am" awards in D.C. that his beloved, groundbreaking, and deeply missed series, the first to center around Black Gay men, Noah's Arc is set to return later this year! After seventeen years, the movie Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, and an hour-long YouTube special, Noah's Arc: The 'Rona Chronicles, we have indeed won. During its short-lived run, the series was able to leave a mark on a community starved for positive, if any, representation. Patrik saw this one day at an event, and the idea was birthed there, and a year he was making the show. Through It Girl Noah (Darryl Stephens), vivacious AIDS educator Alex (Rodney Chester), pretty playboy Ricky (Christian Vincent), tightly wound professor Chance (Doug Spearmen), and overtly masc screenwriter Wade (Jensen Atwood), Ian-Polk was able to give a face to an entire community and shine a brighter light who we are, what we go through, and how we are here to stay and proud of it. There are no details about what this next return will entail, but we are seated and ready. The series is now streaming on Paramount+!