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Queer as Folk (2022 TV series)

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Queer as Folk
GenreDrama
Based onQueer as Folk
Starring
Country of origin
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
Running time42–56 minutes
Production companies
DistributorAll3Media
Release
Original networkPeacock
Original releaseJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
Chronology
Related
This article is about the 2022 US TV series. For other uses, see Queer as Folk.

Queer as Folk is a drama television series created for Peacock by Stephen Dunn. It is a re-imagining of the Channel 4 1999 British TV series Queer as Folk that was created by Russell T. Davies. The series was released on June 9, 2022.[1] The reboot was canceled after one season on September 23, 2022.[2]

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Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by the Television and Streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Named after the NBC logo, the service launched on July 15, 2020. The service primarily features series and film content from NBCUniversal studios and other third-party content providers, including television series, films, news, and sports programming. The service is available in a free ad-supported version with limited content, while premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content.

Stephen Dunn (director)

Stephen Dunn (director)

Stephen Dunn is a Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film directorial debut in 2015 with Closet Monster, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities, including publicity. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV.

Queer as Folk (British TV series)

Queer as Folk (British TV series)

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.

Russell T Davies

Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies, better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise Doctor Who, Cucumber, A Very English Scandal, Years and Years, It's a Sin and Nolly.

Premise

Set in New Orleans, the series follows a diverse group of friends who find their lives transformed in the aftermath of a shooting at a queer nightclub called the Babylon. The group struggles with vulnerability, addiction, grief, and relationships.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Fin Argus as Mingus - a non-binary teen and high school student who is an aspiring drag queen. They[a] were performing on stage when the shooter entered the bar. They were saved from the gunfire when Brodie tackled them. Mingus becomes smitten with Brodie.
  • CG as Shar - Ruthie's partner. Shar gives birth to twins the night of the shooting. Brodie is the sperm donor, despite the fact that Shar is mostly disapproving of Brodie. Shar uses they/them pronouns and parental term "Zaddy."
  • Jesse James Keitel as Ruthie O'Neil - Shar's partner and Brodie's best friend since they attended Catholic high school together. Ruthie is a trans woman, and an English teacher at the high school attended by Mingus.
  • Ryan O'Connell as Julian Beaumont - Brodie's brother. Brodie had no idea Julian is gay until Julian is arrested for having sex in the bathroom at the mall.
  • Johnny Sibilly as Noah Hernandez - Brodie's ex-boyfriend. Noah is a lawyer who, after the death of his lover, Daddius, in the Babylon shooting, struggles with addiction and grief. The new party Ghost Fag is held in his home. Noah kept his relationship with Daddius a secret from Brodie.
  • Devin Way as Brodie Beaumont - the complicated protagonist. Brodie drops out of medical school to return home to NOLA. Brodie struggles to reconnect with his ex-partner Noah, as well as with friends and family. On the night of the shooting at Babylon, he takes a bullet in the arm saving Mingus from the shooter. On the same night, his friend Shar (with their[a] partner Ruthie) gives birth to twins, for whom he is the sperm donor / bio-dad.

Recurring

  • Kim Cattrall as Brenda Beaumont, the eccentric mother to Brodie and Julian.
  • Juliette Lewis as Judy, the free spirited mother of Mingus.
  • Ed Begley Jr. as Winston Beaumont, the rich husband to Brenda and father of Brodie and Julian.
  • Armand Fields as Bussy, a leader in the LGBTQ+ community and drag queen. Worked at the Babylon to organize performers and teaches a class on drag performance. The night of the shooting, they ignore their wounds to ensure members of the community are not taken advantage of by media. Bussy takes on their former role when Ghost Fag opens.
  • Chris Renfro as Daddius Miller, who was the best friend of Brodie and secret lover of Noah. Daddius is killed at the Babylon the night of the shooting.
  • Eric Graise as Marvin, who meets Brodie and Mingus the night of the shooting at Babylon. Marvin sneaks Mingus into the club by having them assist getting their wheelchair up the steps due to a lack of ramp. Brodie, who is smoking a cigarette when this occurs, joins in to help. Marvin is an advocate for nightlife to be more accessible to disabled people. Marvin uses the money from the survivors fund to pay for services from Ali, but eventually develops mutual feelings for one another.
  • Sachin Bhatt as Ali, a sex worker hired by Marvin for the "boyfriend experience" but eventually develops feelings for Marvin.
  • Benito Skinner as Jack Cole Jordan

Guest

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Drag queen

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Jesse James Keitel

Jesse James Keitel

Jesse James Keitel is an American actress, writer, and artist, known for starring in Asher Jelinsky's award-winning short film Miller & Son (2019), the ABC crime drama Big Sky (2020) and on Queer as Folk (2022).

Cruising for sex

Cruising for sex

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Cottaging

Cottaging

Cottaging is a gay slang term, originating from the United Kingdom, referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory, or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere. The term has its roots in self-contained English toilet blocks resembling small cottages in their appearance; in the English cant language of Polari this became a double entendre by gay men referring to sexual encounters. See also gay beat in Australian English.

Johnny Sibilly

Johnny Sibilly

Johnny Sibilly is an American actor and producer. His work includes roles in Pose, The Deuce, Hacks and the Queer as Folk reboot on Peacock.

Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall

Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the 2002 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010).

Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis

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Ed Begley Jr.

Ed Begley Jr.

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Benito Skinner

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Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
1"Babylon"Stephen DunnStephen DunnJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
2"Blocked"Satya BhabhaJaclyn Moore & Brontez PurnellJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
3"Welcum to the Hellmouth"Satya BhabhaStephen Dunn & Des MoranJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
4"#F*ck Disabled People"Brian DannellyRyan O'Connell & Alyssa TaylorJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
5"Choke"Brian DannellyRoxane Gay & Azam MahmoodJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
6"Pretend You're Someone Else"Ingrid JungermannJaclyn Moore & Sarah LinkJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
7"Problemática"Stephen DunnStephen Dunn & Ryan O'ConnellJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)
8"Sacrilege"Stephen DunnDes Moran & Maia GoldenJune 9, 2022 (2022-06-09)

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Stephen Dunn (director)

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Satya Bhabha

Satya Bhabha

Satya Sorab Bhabha is a British-American actor known for his role as Matthew Patel in the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and his recurring role as Shivrang in New Girl.

Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell is an American writer, musician, dancer, and director based out of Oakland, California. He is the author of several books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down (2017), and the zine Fag School; frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers; and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. He is a recipient of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction for his novel 100 Boy Friends.

Brian Dannelly

Brian Dannelly

Brian Dannelly is a German born American film director and screenwriter best known for his work on the 2004 film Saved!

Ryan O'Connell

Ryan O'Connell

Ryan O'Connell is an American writer, actor, director, comedian, LGBTQ activist, and disability advocate. He is known for his 2015 memoir, I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, about his life as a gay man with cerebral palsy, which he adapted into television series Special for Netflix, which premiered in April 2019.

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

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Ingrid Jungermann

Ingrid Jungermann

Ingrid Jungermann is an American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for Women Who Kill, her directorial film debut, and web series The Slope and F to 7th.

Production

Development

In December 2018, it was announced Bravo had put into development a reboot of Queer as Folk with Stephen Dunn set to write and direct, with Russell T. Davies set to executive produce.[3] However, in August 2019, it was announced the series was now in development at Peacock.[4] In April 2021, Peacock ordered the series.[5]

Dunn has indicated that this incarnation of the series was inspired directly by Davies' original series as a "jumping off point", stating that he did not take the Showtime adaptation into consideration.[6]

Dunn assembled the writer's room while isolated at his mother's condo in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador due to the COVID-19. The entire writer's staff ended up being queer, save one writer's assistant.[7] Due to low ratings and viewership, on September 23, 2022, the series was canceled after one season.[2]

Casting

In August 2021, Jesse James Keitel joined the cast in a series regular role.[8] In September 2021, Candace Grace, Johnny Silbilly, Devin Way, Fin Argus, and Ryan O'Connell joined the cast in series regular roles.[9][10] In November 2021, Kim Cattrall joined the cast in a recurring capacity.[11] In December 2021, Juliette Lewis, Ed Begley Jr., Armand Fields, Chris Renfro, Eric Graise, Sachin Bhatt and Benito Skinner joined the cast in recurring capacity.[12] In March 2022, it was announced Lukas Gage, Megan Stalter, Olli Haaskivi and Calvin Seabrooks had joined the cast in guest capacity.[13]

Filming

Principal photography began by October 2021, in New Orleans, Louisiana.[14]

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Queer as Folk (British TV series)

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.

Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by the Television and Streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Named after the NBC logo, the service launched on July 15, 2020. The service primarily features series and film content from NBCUniversal studios and other third-party content providers, including television series, films, news, and sports programming. The service is available in a free ad-supported version with limited content, while premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content.

Queer as Folk (American TV series)

Queer as Folk (American TV series)

Queer as Folk is a serial drama television series that ran from December 3, 2000, to August 7, 2005. The series was produced for Showtime by Cowlip Productions, Tony Jonas Productions, Temple Street Productions, and Showtime Networks, in association with Crowe Entertainment. It was developed and written by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who were the showrunners and also the executive producers along with Tony Jonas, former president of Warner Bros. Television.

COVID-19

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Jesse James Keitel

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Fin Argus

Fin Argus

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Kim Cattrall

Kim Cattrall

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Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lake Lewis is an American actress, model and alternative rock singer. She is known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark themes. Lewis became an "it girl" of American cinema in the early 1990s, appearing in various independent and arthouse films. Her accolades include a Pasinetti Award, one Academy Award nomination, one Golden Globe nomination, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Benito Skinner

Benito Skinner

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Lukas Gage

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Megan Stalter

Megan Stalter

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Principal photography

Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

Release

The series was released on June 9, 2022, on Peacock.[1] In Australia the series premiered on Stan on June 10, 2022.[15] The series aired in Canada on Showcase beginning on June 26, 2022, as part of owner Corus Entertainment's output deal with NBCUniversal for Peacock original programming.[16][17] The series was picked up by Starzplay for distribution in the UK, several continental European countries, and Latin America. In the UK, it premiered on July 1, 2022, and in other territories on July 31, 2022.[18]

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Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock (streaming service)

Peacock is an American over-the-top video streaming service owned and operated by the Television and Streaming division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Named after the NBC logo, the service launched on July 15, 2020. The service primarily features series and film content from NBCUniversal studios and other third-party content providers, including television series, films, news, and sports programming. The service is available in a free ad-supported version with limited content, while premium tiers include a larger content library and access to additional NBC Sports, Hallmark Channel, and WWE content.

Showcase (Canadian TV channel)

Showcase (Canadian TV channel)

Showcase is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. Launched on January 1, 1995, the channel primarily airs scripted and dramatic television series.

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian mass media company. The company was founded in 1987 as Shaw Radio, Ltd. as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications and was spun-off from Shaw in 1999. It has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario.

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 84% approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10, based on 19 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Sprawling to a fault but packed with lovable characters and cultural resonance, Queer as Folk successfully updates a watershed in LGBTQ representation for a new era."[19] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 53 out of 100 based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[20]

Source: "Queer as Folk (2022 TV series)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 4th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_as_Folk_(2022_TV_series).

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Notes
  1. ^ a b this character uses they/them pronouns.
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  2. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (September 24, 2022). "'Queer As Folk' Canceled By Peacock After One Season". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  3. ^ Otterson, Joe (December 18, 2018). "'Queer as Folk' Reboot in Development at Bravo (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
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