Rsell T Davi on ‘It’s A S’ and gay rol drama – Channel 4 News

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• CHANNEL 4 UNVEILS FIRST LOOK AT RSELL T DAVI GAY DRAMA IT'S A S
• CUCUMBER: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHANNEL 4’S NEW GAY DRAMA SERI
• RSELL T DAVI EXPLOR 21ST CENTURY GAY LIFE NEW DRAMA FOR C4
• CHANNEL 4 PLOTS TO SHOCK WH S NEW GAY DRAMA CUCUMBER
• CHANNEL 4'S CUCUMBER IS FOLLOW-UP TO GAY DRAMA QUEER AS FOLK
• CHANNEL 4 GLAD TO PNEER THE FIRST GAY DRAMA ON BRISH TV
• RSELL T DAVI ON ‘IT’S A S’ AND GAY ROL DRAMA
• 2022 GAY
• HOW ARE LGBT PEOPLE REACTG TO CHANNEL 4'S GAY DRAMA "CUCUMBER"?
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

CHANNEL 4 UNVEILS FIRST LOOK AT RSELL T DAVI GAY DRAMA IT'S A S

Channel 4Related: Channel 4 unveils first look at Rsell T Davi gay drama It's a STipped to both heart-warmg and heart-breakg equal measure, It's a S (origally tled Boys) will ver the entire , and will follow the protagonists' iendships and love liv as they al wh the AIDS crisis. "[Davi'] work helped shape my inty as a gay person so I'm absolutely over the moon we'll be workg together, " he said.

Rsell T Davi is known for revivg Doctor Who, but he also created groundbreakg gay drama Queer as Folk, heartwarmg/breakg spirual succsors Cucumber and Banana, and the te story adaptatn A Very English he's got another gay-centric drama g to Channel 4 next year, tled It's a S. Tonight fally se the start of Rsell T Davi’ new drama Cucumber, a seri about beg a gay man 2015. Channel 4’s new eight-part drama Cucumber follows middle-aged gay uple Henry and Lance and their liv on the Manchter gay scene.

From love to sex and everythg between, this show looks at what means to be a gay man of any age 2015, brgg together two generatns. The drama is ma up of eight stalments that will explore beg gay, lbian and transgenr each half-hour episo. The st (which featur gay actors playg gay characters) also clus the lik of Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Stephen seri is loosely spired by Davi' own real-life experienc – jt like the three central characters It's A S, he was an 18-year-old gay man 1981, at the start of the AIDS crisis.

CUCUMBER: EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHANNEL 4’S NEW GAY DRAMA SERI

A trailer was released near the end of 2020, teasg the storyl of three young gay men (and their rpective fai) London before and durg the AIDs crisis. The five-parter will exame the liv of a group of young gay men (Rchie, Rose and Col) who are h by the outbreak of a new adly vis, HIV, after they move to London durg the 1980s.

RSELL T DAVI EXPLOR 21ST CENTURY GAY LIFE NEW DRAMA FOR C4

Together they will endure the horror of the epimic, the pa of rejectn and the prejudic that gay men faced throughout the . Speakg exclively to Rad Tim, Davi has strsed the importance of stg gay actors the rol of the gay male characters It's A S.

“I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance. His work helped shape my inty as a gay person so I’m absolutely over the moon we’ll be workg together.

“Do you serly thk there’s an illns that only affects gay men? Fifteen years after Queer As Folk explod on to the screen, award-wng wrer Rsell T Davi is back wh Cucumber and Banana – two new drama seri for Channel 4 and E4 explorg the passns and pfalls of 21st century gay life. From young lbian Stty's first love, to 19 year old Dean's myster fay secrets, Banana vers 50 shas of gay, and beyond.

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Wh the same feroc w, startlg honty and heartfelt warmth that ma Queer As Folk a landmark seri, Cucumber and Banana will explore the heartbreak and joy of morn sex liv - om gay to straight, and anythg between.

Davi about gay people Manchter.

The trailer zeros on the tragedy that befalls a New Orleans gay club lled Babylon. The seri not only has gay characters, but also go further to rporate trans and non-bary characters, as well as characters wh disabili.

CHANNEL 4'S CUCUMBER IS FOLLOW-UP TO GAY DRAMA QUEER AS FOLK

This documentary film looks at how a muny largely ostracized om mastream society als wh issu such as AIDS, racism, poverty, vlence, and homophobia.

CHANNEL 4 GLAD TO PNEER THE FIRST GAY DRAMA ON BRISH TV

Carol: Directed by one of the most notable openly gay directors Hollywood, Todd Hayn, Carol churns out a rivetg tale of forbidn love between the most There (Rooney Mara) and the elegant Carol (Cate Blanchett). The story is centered on the life of Karen and Barry Mason, a Jewish uple, and their journey to bee one of the biggt distributors of hardre gay porn the Uned Stat.

Beyond providg gay pornography, they beme a safe space for L. A's gay muny durg the 80s.

RSELL T DAVI ON ‘IT’S A S’ AND GAY ROL DRAMA

Brokeback Mounta: At the time of s release 2005, Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger were mend for their bravery and cisn to “go gay”.

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Fifteen years after showg the ground-breakg gay drama Queer as Folk, Channel 4 hop to "outrage the Daily Mail" wh a multi-platform follow-up, which the broadster boasts is so risqué that "wouldn't get past an Amerin work".

"The broadster, named Channel of the Year on Friday at the Edburgh Internatnal Televisn Ftival, has found a new nfince and is reassertg s posn as the home of programmg on ntemporary gay life. In Febary, ran a bold mpaign challengg homophobia Rsia, to ci wh the Sochi Wter projects om the broadster clu Carol, a Film4 treatment of The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmh's novel on a lbian affair between a female partment-store assistant and an olr married woman.

HOW ARE LGBT PEOPLE REACTG TO CHANNEL 4'S GAY DRAMA "CUCUMBER"?

Dom Bird, head of formats at Channel 4, revealed that among programm velopment are a "very powerful film" lled Unrage & Gay and My Milln View Sex Change, a project showg young women g Ttosterone Diari to rerd onle the progrs of their sex chang. Gay Love: Sex and Apps will follow a young man lookg for a partner on apps such as Grdr and Wenger, drama head at Channel 4, told The Inpennt on Sunday that Cucumber was "amazgly warm, credibly funny and betifully wrten", but he accepted that viewers might be "challenged" by the explic ntent.

"In a drama lookg at the tails of people's sex liv, whether gay or straight people, of urse you are required to bt taboos or ask probg qutns.

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The third element, Tofu, will n on Channel 4's webse and feature siar factual ntent on the liv of "ordary people", Wenger Queer as Folk, a story of young gay men, Cucumber – to be screened 2015 – looks at gay life across different generatns and stars Vcent Frankl, who played PR Stewart Pearson The Thick of It, as a 46-year old man gog through a relatnship break-up, and Freddie Fox (om the actg dynasty) as a young object of his sir.

Frankl's character, Henry Bt, ends up hoe-sharg wh a group of younger gay men. "We all live together a great big gay hoe, beg gay! Channel 4 unveils follow-up to s ground-breakg gay drama Queer as Folk - and boasts that 's too graphic for Amerin TV News show is part of three-strand programme: one on Channel 4, one on E4 and third on webse Cucumber is scribed by Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt as 'channel-fg'It stars Vcent Frankl who was PR Stewart Pearson The Thick of It Published: 17:28 BST, 24 Augt 2014 | Updated: 18:45 BST, 24 Augt 2014.

Channel 4 are lnchg another homosexual-themed seri that is likely to stir up ntroversy 15 years after gay drama Queer as Folk h the as Folk wrer Rsell T.

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Cucumber marks a return to homosexual drama for Davi who apart om Queer as Folk and Bob & Rose was rponsible for the revamp of Doctor Who although some fans and crics thought that the not always hidn gay them the sci-fi show were too much s dience of children.

Queer as Folk was Rsell T Davi's ground-breakg seri about homosexualyCucumber, scribed by Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt as 'channel-fg', tells the story of gay life across the generatns and stars Vcent Frankl, who was PR Stewart Pearson The Thick of It.

Frankl plays Henry Bt, a 40-somethg gay man, who is spltg up om his boyiend but is attracted to a younger man played by Freddie Fox, the son of Edward Fox, the actor. Queer as Folk was rema for Ameri - somethg that is unlikely to happen to Cucumber, the new showHenry Bt ends up sharg a hoe wh a number of young men and one episo shouts: 'We all live together a great big gay hoe, beg gay! 'In a drama lookg at the tails of people's sex liv, whether gay or straight people, of urse you are required to bt taboos or ask probg qutns.