The new British TV miniseries Taboo is not particularly gay BUT it does have a few scenes with a near naked Tom Hardy strutting around Africa looking very hot and fierce (the spoilsports at FX Channel covered up his private parts that he proudly showed off in production photos released earlier). Set in 1814 , Hardy plays James Delaney, an adventurer, who returns to Britain from Africa along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance following the death of his father. Written by Hardy, along with his father Edward Hardy and also Steven Knight, the series was first broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 7 January 2017 and in the US on FX on 10 January 2017.
Feb 27th 2016 will see the debut on ABC TV of the much anticipated LGBT docudrama miniseries “When We Rise,” created and written by out Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. The series inspired by LGBT activist Cleve Jones’s memoir “When We Rise: My Life in the Movement”, chronicles the LGBT rights movement from its infancy with the Stonewall riots in 1969 to the modern day.
The new show boasts an all-star ensemble, including Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael K. Williams, Dylan Walsh, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Denis O’Hare, David Hyde Pierce, Rob Reiner, and many more. “When We Rise” will be eight hours long in seven parts with out director Gus Van Sant helming the first two-hour part. and Black, who wrote the entire series, set to direct the final two parts.
Viewers in the UK are currently enjoying the hit Australian LGBT TV series Barracuda which is the tale of a young swimmer who dreams of Olympic gold, and who eventually comes to terms with his homosexuality.
Adapted from a novel by the award-winning writer Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda is a moving story about identity, obsession, desire, the dizzy heights of success and the terrifying risk of failure. It stars Rachel Griffiths (also starring in When We Rise) and Matt Nable and introduces the extremely Elias Anton as the main character Danny Kelly.
The Australians didn’t respond to our enquiry as to the exact date when the series will air in the US, so we know nothing more than ‘soon’ at this time, but meanwhile here’s a clip for you to see what the fuss is all about.
