Genius: Aretha – new scripted series on the extraordinary life of the Queen of Soul

posted Saturday, March 20, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Television

Genius is an Emmy-winning anthology series that dramatizes the fascinating stories of the world’s most brilliant innovators, their extraordinary achievements and with their volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships. This third season, Genius: Aretha, is the first-ever, definitive and only authorized scripted series on the life of Aretha Franklin. The series explores Franklin’s background as a gospel […]

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The Communist’s Daughter – how one 15 yo Scottish girl navigates life in the 1980s with her communist parents

posted Friday, March 19, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Streaming Online, Television, Toronto

In the thick of the ‘80s, the daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at high school and upholding her family’s idealistic beliefs. The year is 1989, and while most of the world is celebrating the triumph of the free market — 15-year-old Dunyasha McDougald is most definitely not. With the Berlin […]

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“Charmed” – season three features trans actor J.J. Hawkins playing a trans character

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021

by: Bryen Dunn in Television

Trans actor J.J. Hawkins joins the cast of Charmed in season three. He will be playing a trans character in the show, which was filmed in Vancouver and streams on the W Network. At the end of season two, the Charmed Ones and the magical world find themselves in certain peril as Julian affirmed to Aunt Vivienne that […]

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Canada’s Drag Race – and then there were three!

posted Friday, August 28, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Drag, Fashion, Montreal, Television, Toronto

Last night, the clown of queens, JIMBO, was eliminated from Canada’s Drag Race, leaving only three remaining contestants, one of which will be crowned Canada’s first reigning drag queen next week. The resident judges were joined by RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE legend Michelle Visage, whose presence raised the excitement, and the stakes. Writer, producer, and comedian […]

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Love, Victor – the follow up series to the feature film Love, Simon – premieres June 17, 2020

posted Tuesday, June 16, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Television

Just in time for Pride season, here comes Love, Victor. Set in the world of the 2018 groundbreaking film Love, Simon which was inspired by Becky Albertalli’s acclaimed novel, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, this fresh Hulu series follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing […]

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QUEENS – a comical drama series filled with local Toronto drag queens, premieres June 19, 2020 on CBC

posted Thursday, June 11, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Pride, Queer, Television, Toronto

A new CBC Gem original scripted series is premiering on June 19,2020, and you don’t want to miss it! QUEENS is a comedy/whodunnit mystery offering a look into the drag scene through the eyes of an eclectic cast of Toronto drag queens, building up to the manic night of the “Miss Church Street Pageant.” After […]

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Revry – First Queer Cable TV Network with Multi-LGBTQ+ Channels Launches

posted Tuesday, May 26, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Lesbian, Queer, Television, Trans

Revry, the first global LGBTQ streaming network, has launched a first-of-its kind cable TV platform amid widespread cancellations of major Pride events and LGBTQ+ film festivals. The new platform provides a free, truly “always on” TV experience made exclusively for LGBTQ+ people “Creating a ‘radically inclusive’ global network has always been in our DNA given […]

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Canada’s Drag Race Announces List of Competing Queens for Season One, premiering July 2, 2020

posted Thursday, May 14, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Drag, Queer, Television

As Canada prepares to honour one of the world’s most iconic queens on Victoria Day, Crave announces the cast of its majestic inaugural season of CANADA’S DRAG RACE. Season 1 of the Crave Original Series promises to have viewers clutching their royal pearls as 12 of the fiercest queens in the land showcase their Canadian Charisma, […]

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Hightown – murder mystery series set in Provincetown debuts May 17, 2020 on STARZ

posted Thursday, May 14, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Lesbian, Pride, Queer, Television

This all-new series from STARZ,set on iconic Cape Cod, follows one woman’s journey to sobriety, intertwined with an unfolding murder investigation. Jackie Quiñones (Monica Raymund, CHICAGO FIRE), a hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service agent, has her free-wheeling life thrown into disarray when she discovers a body on the beach – another casualty of Cape Cod’s […]

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Hollywood – Netflix series from Ryan Murphy looks back at a re-imagined more diverse and sexual film industry

posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Television

A new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, HOLLYWOOD follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood as they try to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the cost. Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood’s Golden Age, spotlighting the unfair systems […]

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