Tag Archives: television

Daily Ungrumble

OK, no spoilers because I’m sure some of you still have it on your DVRs, but O-M-F-G with last night’s True Blood. About halfway through the show, the girls in the apartment across my back alley were screaming their heads off. Maybe I was too. A little. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show that can pull off major …

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HomoQuotable – Charles Perez

“I’ll probably never work in the news business again. Honestly, who’s going to hire a newsman, as good as he may be, who litigates against his employer? It’s not exactly a career builder. The good news, as my dentist told me August 6, the day I was fired, is: ‘They can only take your job. They can’t take your talent.’ …

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Gay Miami News Anchor Fired After Filing Discrimination Complaint

Less than a week after filing a complaint alleging that he’d been demoted for “acting too gay,” Miami ABC newsman Charles Perez has been fired. The drama all began in June, when Perez was “demoted” from the local ABC nightly evening newscast to the weekend edition — and Perez claims it was because the station felt he was “becoming too …

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Judge Disses Drag Troupe On
America’s Got Talent

Judge Piers Morgan on drag troupe Diva League after their performance on America’s Got Talent: “There’s no easy way of putting this. We are trying to find an act that can represent America on the world stage From where I sit, a bunch of lip-synching old drag queens who can’t dance is not what America needs right now. It’s not …

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True Blood Love

True Blood’s serodiscordant couple Bill and Sookie are getting married in real life. It’s true love for “True Blood” couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. The two are engaged to be married, reps for both actors on the HBO vampire series confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. No further details were available. The two have been together since February 24 of this …

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Tweet Of The Day

“With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all …being a part of a show that I helped from day1become an international phenomenon … What I want to say most, is how much I appreciate the undying support and enormous love that you have showered upon …

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Miami ABC Anchor Charles Perez: I Was Demoted For Acting Too Gay

Miami news anchor Charles Perez has filed a sexual orientation discrimination complaint against his ABC employers, claiming he was demoted for acting “too gay.” A personal email forwarded to Perez’ bosses by his former boyfriend may have started it all. Perez, 46, claims station bosses demoted him to weekend anchor/reporter “because of their discomfort over the increasingly high profile of …

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SyFy Promises Gayer Future

Smarting from GLAAD’s “F” rating over their lack of LGBT characters, a SyFy Channel vice president has revealed that several characters in two new series will be gay. “On Stargate Universe, one of the main female characters, we discover, is a lesbian and has a wife at home. It’s a pretty important facet of who that character is,” he says. …

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NBC Responds To GLAAD

NBC has issued a response to GLAAD’s failing grade for their lack of gay characters.

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GLAAD: HBO Leads Networks In LGBT Portrayals, NBC & CBS Last

GLAAD has issued its third annual survey of the top 15 television networks and found that HBO leads the pack in the portrayals of LGBT characters. In GLAAD’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, which evaluated the five major networks and 10 cable outlets, HBO — the home to True Blood, Entourage and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — scored the …

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Harry Potter Promotes Voodoo!

Fox News! Geraldo! Transgender voodoo! Harry Potter!

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And That’s The Way It Is,
Walter Cronkite Dies At Age 92

Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man” in the history of television news, has died in New York City at the age of 92. Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his …

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Dating In The Dark (Room)

ABC is launching a new show called Dating In The Dark, in which “six strangers meet in a light-sealed room.” And feel each other up to see if they want to “kiss.” Tagline: “When the lights come on, will the truth come out?” Oh, hmm. Where have we seen THIS concept before? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

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Daily Ungrumble

Seriously, how fantastic is Nurse Jackie? I’m loving Edie Falco’s pill-popping, adulterous title character, the ice princess English doctor, the Tourette’s guy with lesbian moms, and especially the hot hot gay male nurse Mo-Mo played by Haaz Sleiman. The camp factor is through the roof. Real nurses aren’t too crazy about the way Jackie is portrayed, what with her stealing …

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Sharpton: No More MJ Pedo Stories

Al Sharpton thinks the media is focusing too much on Michael Jackson’s legal woes, rather than his musical accomplishments. He also wants a “national day of mourning” (to be declared by whom?) and for the USPS to immediately issue a commemorative Michael Jackson stamp, something that is not usually done until five years after the death of a celebrity (with …

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Mollie Sugden Dies At 86

Mollie Sugden, the actress beloved by gays for her portrayal as the daft Mrs. Slocombe in the Britcom Are You Being Served? has died at age 86. Sugden found early TV success with comedy series Hugh and I in 1962 and in Coronation Street as the gossiping Nellie Harvey. But it was The Liver Birds in the late 1960s and …

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Wanna Be Startin’ Something

I love the anchors’ faces.

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10th Anniversary: TV’s First Gay Kiss

Spangle Magazine editor Brian Patrick Thornton recalls the day ten years ago when he and his boyfriend pranked The Today Show and Al Roker to create what some consider the first kiss between two actual gay men on national television. [T]hat morning, the first three Al Roker weather segments passed us over. We thought they must have figured us out …

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Farrah Fawcett Dies At Age 62

Television icon Farrah Fawcett died this morning at age 62 after a three year battle with anal cancer. Fawcett first stepped into the spotlight playing Jill Munroe in the TV series “Charlie’s Angels” in the 1970s. The series became a smash hit and Fawcett quickly became an iconic pin-up model for millions of men. She pioneered a feathered hairstyle dubbed …

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Serenading The Hoff

America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff was “honored and humbled” when a male contestant sang a love song about him. Cute bit. (Via – Towleroad)

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