Ben Aldridge to play gay tective ITV's The Long Call

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A new ITV crime drama, The Long Call, will be the first Brish history to feature a gay, male tective as s lead.

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'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Styl stars as a gay p who be the object of sire of both schoolteacher Marn (Emma Corr) and her mm curator hband Patrick (David Dawson). “A cynil viewer uld easily read My Policeman as the send half of a one-two heterosexual-homosexual cematic punch for Styl, signed to let him ntue straddlg the genr l he fluidly blurs his own public persona, ” he wr. “No matter the star’s tentns, though, [director Michael] Grandage’s film is a rickety vehicle that do exactly what Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller’s Bros mocks: imagg a gay love story old-fashned and exaggerated tragic terms.

Man murred -worker over gay mors. In 1985 Poland, Robert (Tomasz Zietek), a young police officer munist Warsaw, is termed to track down a serial killer preyg on gay men.

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Set 1962 California, follows a gay universy profsor grievg the loss of his partner and on the verge of makg a life-alterg cisn. Based loosely on the life of openly gay Brish double agent Guy Burgs (Rubert Everett) who, durg his time at a boy’s school the 1930s, would disver romance and his Marxist beliefs. It’s 1968 and a group of gay iends gathers New York for a birthday party to celebrate their iend Harold (Zachary Quto).

A new ITV crime drama, The Long Call, will be the first to feature a gay, male tective as s lead.

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Then there’s the hugely popular TV seri, Killg Eve, which saw s leads, Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) adm to romantic feelgs and share a kiss the season three fale, after prevly garnerg accatns of queerbag ntrast, gay male tectiv have been largely absent om Brish televisn, makg Aldridge’s upg performance a signifint step. “As [ was] the UK’s first male gay tective on primetime I was rolute that we should st a gay actor, ” said seri director Lee Haven Jon on his move to st Aldridge. The Grammy-wng popstar and actor is about to -star alongsi The Crown's Emma Corr and David Dawson Michael Grandage's anticipated new gay drama film My Policeman.

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