Julia Child is getting as much attention on TV as Andy Warhol is these days.  First, there is The Julia Child Challenge a new competition where competitors will recreate Child’s recipes and even cook in a reproduction of her own kitchen.  The jury is still out on this Food Network show that started on March 14th.

However, the whole QUEERGURU Office is very excited about JULIA a brand-new dramatized series on HBO Max that offers a behind-the-scenes look at Child’s long-running television series.  Julia  Child is both something of a cooking and a gay icon in how she pioneered the concept of the modern cooking show in America in an unintended very camp style.

What is equally exciting is the cast of the new show that is headed up by actress Sarah Lancashire a much loved Brit TV star whose many award-winning performances include playing a gay school Principal in Last Tango in Halifax. 

Also in the Series are David Hyde Pierce playing husband Paul Child plus Bebe Neuwirth, Jefferson Mays, James Cromwell, Judith Light,  and Isabella Rossellini

“As this stage of my life, I want to feel relevant,” Julia says in the trailer. She proposes an “educational cooking show,” that she will host, and public television executives are against it from the start. “One of the advantages of looking like me,” she says, “is that you learn at a young age how not to take no for an answer.”

 

 

P.S. The original TV series THE FRENCH Chef can still be viewed on AMAZON PRIME