Happy mid-week Pop Culture Fix, friends and foes! (Just kidding, none of you are my foes!)
+ Hallmark’s upcoming movie, Wedding Every Weekend, will feature a lesbian wedding as one of those weddings that happen every weekend. These are Hallmarks first gays ever. NBC News’ article about it has absolutely delighted me for this quote alone: “Thank you Hallmark Channel USA!,” commented one man on Facebook.
THANK YOU, HALLMARK CHANNEL! USA!
+ Ruby Rose chatted with Entertainment Weekly about why she really decided to leave Batwoman.
+ Beanie Feldstein is your new Harriet the Spy, and Jane “Wine Caves” Lynch will play Ole Golly.
+ Hold the phone: Keke Palmer had a Disney Channel series that didn’t get picked up???
+ Oh you know, just Stacey Abrams out here moderating a One Day at a Time panel at PaleyFest.
+ I believe you (and Carmen) will have plenty of feelings about TV Line’s list of Grey’s Anatomy characters, ranked.
+ Kimberly Drew’s profile of Janet Mock in Marie Claire is your must-read this week.
+ 🗣 TEN EXQUISITE PHOTOS OF VIOLA DAVIS.
+ The trailer for Ife, Nigeria’s first feature-length lesbian film is here.
+ Yesterday, Twitter-er Thedude3445 asked us to investigate whether or not they’d found the actual first lesbian kiss on TV: “It was between country singer k.d. lang and an unnamed cow muppet during episode 9 of the JIM HENSON HOUR, back in 1989.” We cannot yet confirm this, but Natalie did find the full clip on YouTube and wwwwoooow!
+ Tamara Smart And Indya Moore will star together in Netflix’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting.
+ Roxane Gay will adapt her graphic novel, The Banks, for TKO Studios’ Marco and also obviously will executive produce. (If you’ve never read The Banks, you should; it’s illustrated by Bombshells‘ Ming Doyle. She and Gay are a dream team.)
+ Sarah Cooper is getting a Netflix comedy special that’ll be directed by Natasha Lyonne.
+ This is NOT good news: Avatar‘s creators have left Netflix’s live-adaptation of the series.
+ This isn’t gay but I love Top Chef‘s Carla Hall and she’s getting her own Food Network show!
+ And finally, the world’s last Blockbuster will soon be available to rent as an Airbnb.
wow that kd lang video is!!! a lot!!! exquisite
The kd lang video really softend the blow of that ATLA news so thank you for that one. I was really looking forward to that series, I hope it’s still good.
The outfit KD Lang is wearing is so very 1989. I kind of love it.
I don’t love the flower arrangement on the Hallmark film. It’s a bit of a mess. But yay for lesbians!
So we don’t get to have an actual romance, Hallmark? Not a love story? Just get to be the background characters getting married while your straight leads fall in love.
I guess thanks for doing the absolute least you can do for us Hallmark
a very predictable hallmark move
That Grey’s ranking is a CRIME. Why are there so many men? WHO PUTS OWEN HUNT BEFORE MAGGIE PIERCE?????
but at least Sandra Oh is in her rightful place at #1!!
This is true!
“Why are there so many men?” is my question pretty much all the time.
TV, movies, politics, writers, meetings, faculty lists, nominees, directors, boards, ceos, etc. So often a disproportionate number. And so often white and cis. 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks as always for aggregating this info for us! Also, you’re part of the news as well – I saw this Tumblr post citing one of your Feb 2020 tweets :): https://whitepeopletwitter.tumblr.com/post/626285862957858816
A guy who lives on my street rang my doorbell and said, “Are you the lesbian who saves the cats?” And I said, “Yes. That’s exactly who I am. Let me get my coat.”
I’d be interested to see if Netflix live action Avatar now gets Asian and/or indigenous showrunners…
An Australian soap called The Box had Australia’s first lesbian kiss on TV in 1974!
It’s a close call! Seems there was a BBC production in 1974, “Girl”, a few years ahead of the more widely known “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/16/bbc-stream-1974-show-girl-alison-steadman-first-lesbian-kiss-uk-television-pride
‘“The director, Peter Gill, was great because he didn’t fuss about the fact they were two women or that they had to kiss. He said it was just a love story.”
The scene was nonetheless considered so controversial that the producer of the show came to watch rehearsals to make sure things didn’t go “too far”. The broadcast was preceded by a special announcement by the controller of BBC2.’
Trying to adapt ATLA for live action seems like it would be extremely difficult and expensive. How could a live action version even improve on the original?
Such a task seems doomed to fail and I pity any poor soul who attempts it.
PS I realize the original is inherently flawed due to it being the product of two white men appropriating cultures not their own, but fixing that would require fully making a new show.