STARVED EXPIRES, PRACTICE NEEDS MORE
FX has just announced it is not renewing the eating disorders comedy Starved for a second season, due to low ratings. You know it's bad when a basic cable show has a hot bisexual woman hooking up with other women on a regular basis, and it still can't attract more than a million viewers per episode.

CBS's Out of Practice, the only other new TV show with a lesbian character, is still hanging on, ratings-wise, but just barely. Hey, maybe they should try showing women hooking up on a regular basis. Or at least once.

MELISSA, MEET DOROTHY
Melissa Etheridge told Time magazine this week that the development of her ABC sitcom, announced a year ago, is now moving forward again. Etheridge describes it as what "my life might have been like had I not left to find my fame and fortune, and stayed in Kansas and became a teacher and been gay and dealt with life there." It's a win-win situation for both sides of the political spectrum: lesbians will get another prominent lesbian character on TV, and the Religious Right will have a high-profile homosexual to blame the next time a tornado hits Kansas.

FEMALE COMICS FEST
A reader wrote recently to let me know about a conference in Newark, NJ this weekend called Onna!, which she described as "a collaboration between a girls in anime/manga convention, and a lesbians in anime/manga event. They've created Onna! to expand to female representation in Western comics/animation as well. Pretty much if you're a fan of any of these things it's THE place to be. It's like an event that has a pink ribbon in one hand, and a Hello Kitty vibrator in the other." Now there's a logo I'd like to see!

THE BATTLE OVER GAY TEENS
Time magazine put GLBT teens on the cover of its most recent issue (Oct 10 issue, on stands now), with the headline "The Battle Over Gay Teens." The extensive article explores the "culture war" over gay teens, and cites the latest research and statistics about GLBT teens, including the fact that they're coming out younger than ever. Definitely worth a read!

NEXT WEEK ON DVD: PORTIA, LESBIAN SOCCER MOMS, AND LOTS OF BLOOD
Next Tuesday on DVD, we have the release of the second season of Arrested Development, co-starring Portia de Rossi (review); the French horror import High Tension (review); and the Will Ferrell comedy Kicking and Screaming, which features lesbian soccer moms (review) who don't do much but show up to make the movie look hip.

The really good DVD news is that the third season of Once and Again has a release date: January 10, 2006! This is the long-awaited season where Evan Rachel Wood's Jessie falls for a pre-O.C. Mischa Barton, and unlike Mischa's girlfriend on that other show, doesn't turn inexplicably stalkerish and get dumped for a boy (Jessie would look cool with a purple streak in her hair, though).

That's it for this week! Check back next Friday for a new installment of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. or read past installments of Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever.

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