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Post by surrenderdotty on Oct 26, 2021 1:28:35 GMT -5
Oooh, sounds good. I love Tuc Watkins. He's great on the comedy Black Monday, playing opposite real life boyfriend Andrew Rannells.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 22, 2018 4:05:21 GMT -5
Yep, it's a made for tv movie due to air on the ABC on 25th Feb 2018
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Post by surrenderdotty on Sept 21, 2017 6:10:26 GMT -5
Does anyone know what this show is bout? Seems like a typical closeted - openly gay storyline. But two actors look good. Engsub anywhere? I ran the description of the show from the youtube clip through Google Translate and it said: "Román is an unscrupulous doctor, director of the hospital, who deals with all medicines administered to patients, has a seemingly exemplary family life, but has a secret his homosexuality, which makes him emotionally unsatisfied." So, yeah it seems like a classic closeted gay storyline. According to imdb the show aired in 2011.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Sept 21, 2017 5:15:41 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this it looks really interesting!
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Post by surrenderdotty on Aug 8, 2017 4:22:29 GMT -5
I was watching a Welsh noir detective series "Hinterland" that has been recently added on Netflix (in English) and I kept looking at one of the actors and trying to place where I'd seem him before... It's Iolo's early crush Scott! Alex Harries plays DC Lloyd Ellis, with darker hair and a fairly serious pair of spectacles. DC Ellis is the socially awkward and somewhat nerdy member of the investigation team. He doesn't get a huge amount of screen time but his character is interesting and has a role in solving many of the cases.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Jun 24, 2017 3:40:13 GMT -5
Thanks Mimi! I just discovered this today and binged all of the clips. I really enjoyed it.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Apr 14, 2017 5:22:40 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this blast from the past. It's impressive to see that, over 20 years ago, Australia did not shy away from depicting gay intimacy - especially the bed scene, which was ahead of its time. Strange, then, that it took so long to translate to the Aussie soaps (H&A still doesn't have a gay male character). Dr Dempsey is indeed a heartthrob. Do you know why he never had a romance after this? There's been lgbt characters on quite a few Aussie shows over the years, including even earlier shows than G.P.. In 1972 the sexy prime time soap Number 96 had a regular gay character Don Finlayson, supposedly one of the first in the world. Neighbours still has ongoing gay characters, although they are poorly written and the show is so bad I don't watch it. G.P. tackled a number of lgbt and AIDS related storylines, including one about whether or not Dr Dempsey had assisted in the euthanasia of an AIDS patient. Unfortunately the show isn't available on DVD anymore and it's been many years since I saw many of the episodes. I don't remember another romance storyline for Dr Dempsey, but they didn't shy away from the fact that he was gay.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Apr 10, 2017 2:05:35 GMT -5
G.P. was a prime time soap that ran on Australian tv on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) channel between 1989 and 1996. G.P. centred on the group of doctors and patients at a fictional inner city doctor's clinic, the Ross St Surgery, in Sydney. (In Australia family doctors are known as G.P.s, or General Practitioners.) At the time that G.P. went to air one of the most popular shows on Aussie tv was the prime time soap "A Country Practice", which was similarly about a group of family doctors but in a rural setting. G.P. became a popular show for the ABC, and during its 8 season run tackled a number of issues that were considered topical, and for a couple of seasons towards the end of the show (1994 & 95) introduced a gay doctor, Dr Martin Dempsey played by blonde tousle haired cutie Damian Rice. This episode is from 1994 and Dr Dempsey has just joined the practice, is dealing with a short fling with one of his patients (Patrick, played by Lochie Daddo), and is also coming out as gay to the somewhat conservative senior doctor of the practice, Dr William Sharp. Just having an out, regular main character on a popular prime time tv show was quite a rarity in 1994, but this episode "Out" was considered quite a topical episode at the time for its frank discussions about coming out, AIDS and especially for THE GAY KISS. Sadly the romance only lasted this episode, but Dr Dempsey remained out and proud for the 2 years he was on the show. The episode looks a little creaky by modern standards, some of the acting is a bit wooden, and I could certainly do without the lame brother/sister storyline, but viewed in context of the time it was pretty great. As a young homosexualist I had a major crush on Dr Dempsey, so it's nice to revisit that. Here's the episode in full courtesy of kurvapisa on youtube, the smooch happens around the 33:35 mark.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Mar 19, 2017 2:12:00 GMT -5
I still have such fond memories of this show. When I discovered it on youtube being posted regularly by SafeLight I think he was only up to something like episode 4 or 5. So every week or fortnight I'd watch his latest update, and I really got hooked on the story of Paulo and Miguel. Sure it was a bit hokey at times, and melodramatic, but it also had real heart and the boys had great chemistry. I loved that they soon became the most stable couple on the show.
I also fell in love with the little glimpses of Lisbon, where the show was set. So much so that in September 2015 I went on a tour of Portugal and Spain, and even added a few days in Lisbon on my own before the tour started. I had such an amazing time, made lifelong friends (two of whom are about to have their very own gay wedding in Canada and I'm a guest), and absolutely fell in love with Portugal. So in a strange way the show sowed a seed that became a much bigger life experience.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 23, 2017 5:16:33 GMT -5
Welcome surrenderdotty! I love your screen name. I look forward to reading your comments. Thanks Hawthorne! Glad to be here.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 23, 2017 1:36:32 GMT -5
Lol, yeah, ProBoards has issues from time to time. To be fair, it's actually been pretty reliable for a while. I've done some research. I suspect that GayTime or Bonobochick set up the board to require staff approval for new accounts. But, unfortunately, I have no way to verify that: when they set me up as a moderator, they didn't give me full access to that part of the board. I (finally ) sent an email to them to see what we can do. Well, I can say for sure that no new members were being approved... because it took me 2 years to finally get approved! :-) I used to come here and read my favourite boards, but it was frustrating because I could never add any comments. I'm glad the situations was finally sorted.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 22, 2017 1:22:26 GMT -5
Glitch is a 6 episode Australian made supernatural thriller that first aired on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in 2015, and in late 2016 was picked up by Netflix internationally. Netflix will co-produce the second season, which is due to air sometime in 2017. Glitch is set in a fictional small Aussie town called Yoorana, and is mostly told from the point of view of the local police officer James Hayes. He is called out to the local cemetery late one night, after six naked and disoriented, but otherwise unharmed, people are found wandering after they have risen from the graves. They aren't zombies, but returned to life pretty much the same as they left it. The series explores their histories and possible connections they might have to each other and the town (even though they died many years apart), and as they all try to piece together their forgotten pasts. Hayes tries to keep their existence a secret, for a number of reasons, not least because of a close connection he has to one of the risen. One of the risen is Charlie Thompson (Sean Keenan), a gentle young man who struggles to piece together his memories of his previous life as a WWI soldier. I won't give too much away, because watching Charlie piece together his past is an important part of his story on the show. (Charlie, left) Here's a trailer: The show is a little frustrating at times in that there are many unresolved mysteries, but hopefully they will be tied up in season 2. It has a really interesting look and feel, and watching the characters piece together their pasts makes for a range of interesting stories told in flashbacks. I haven't been able to find it posted on youtube, but it is available on Netflix.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 22, 2017 0:34:20 GMT -5
I really like this show and I think they successfully managed to convey what it was like for two men who were secretly trying to be together during this era, while still allowing the actors to develop a lovely chemistry between their characters. I think both young actors did a really nice job. Bring on season 2!
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 1, 2017 5:13:38 GMT -5
I thought it was interesting that Kevin was pretty much set up as a version of the Sassy Gay Friend in the first episode, and then was on the receiving end of the wisecrack "Is being the gay best friend still a thing?" from Cheryl. Hopefully that means that they plan to play around with the trope a bit and make it less cliched. At least it's a snarky way to acknowledge it I guess. According to Bleeding Cool Kevin was originally written as very sexually aggressive, referencing casual hook ups through Grindr and staying home to watch gay porn. Given the ages of the characters this version of Kevin is probably a little bit more palatable to the audience, at least for the first episode! I enjoyed the episode though and I thought Casey Cott did a good job. He was very likeable on screen.
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Post by surrenderdotty on Feb 1, 2017 4:45:54 GMT -5
Sweet. I haven't caught this show yet, except for Anthony's clips posted above, but I'll have to seek it out. Adil and Toby have potential to be a cute couple, but I'm sure race and class will factor into the storyline and add drama (as well as the whole 'being gay is punishable by imprisonment' of the era).
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