Then, in the next month or two, one of the existing characters--not
Reid--on Everwood is going to be revealed to be
gay (see AfterElton.com's Best.
Gay. Week. Ever. for more details on these developments).
But
minor female network TV characters batting for the other
team so far this season? Yeah, that's a big "none".
We
can't even get marginalized equally!
As
usual, things are a little better on cable. HBO's Rome
continues to include a minor Sapphic storyline, and the
new teen series South
of Nowhere premieres tonight on The Noggin, complete
with budding teen lesbian relationship. Then in January,
Chastity Bono joins 7 other celebrities on the third season
of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, a show in which eight
overweight stars are challenged to get fit and lose weight
over a 14 week period.
Now
that I think about it, in the last decade queer women have
gotten more than our fair share of exposure on the "I'm
a Lesbian and I'm Sleeping with Your Wife" type of
episodes on the Ricki Lake/Jerry Springer-type
network TV talk shows. So really, it all evens out in the
end, right?
MORE
PRACTICE
There is some good network TV news this week: Out
of Practice, whose lesbian ER doc is the only new
regular lesbian character on network TV this season, has
just been picked up for a full season by CBS. Each episode
of the sitcom, which also stars Stockard Channing, Henry
Winkler, and Christopher Gorham, averages around 11.97 million
viewers, two lesbian jokes, and, so far, no lesbian kisses.
But stay tuned: November Sweeps is just days away.
In
other TV news, Ellen DeGeneres plays herself in a small
guest appearance on the November 10th episode of Joey
(NBC), and bisexual comedian Margaret Cho has just signed
a deal with Fox to develop a sitcom based on her mother.
DVD
NEWS
The good news for UK readers: you're finally getting the
second season of The
L Word on DVD. The bad news: not until September
2006.
In
the U.S., The
Journey--a movie about a lesbian relationship between
two teen girls in a small town in India--is being released
on DVD on February 14th, and Jodie Foster's Flightplan
is coming out on January 24th. (Jodie Foster coming-out
not included.)
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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