Stop Press: July 2002

The American version of Queer as Folk is now being shown n British television for those viewers with Satellite or Cable TV. You will find the series on BBC UK Choice Sunday nights at 11.30pm and Monday nights at 10.30pm.

"Queer as Folk US," based on the controversial hit British series, made its debut on Showtime Sunday 3rd December. A one-hour weekly series scheduled to run for 22 weeks "QAF" revolves around three gay men in Pittsburgh caught in a highly tangled and engulfing web.

The names have been changed but the characters are the same. The selfish, totally hot Brian (Stuart - UK) (Gale Harold), on the verge of turning 30 (a gay Ally McBeal?), finds himself focusing on someone else in his life for the first time; in fact, he's centering on two people. One of them is his sperm-donated newborn son.

The other is Justin (Nathan - UK) (Randy Harrison), a one-night stand who quickly becomes obsessively smitten over Brian, his first real lover. Justin is just 17 years old.

Finally, there's Michael (Vince - UK) (former "Talk Soup" talker Hal Sparks), Brian's mild-mannered, lifelong best friend who's torn between helping Brian with fatherhood and being angry at his latest mistake. Like everyone else, Michael desires his best friend -- he just won't admit it to anyone, especially himself.

Five other characters make up the cast of "QAF": Emmett (Peter Paige), Michael's flamboyant roommate; Ted (Scott Lowell) (Phil - UK) , a cyber porn-loving, 30-something accountant; Lindsay (Thea Gill), a college art teacher, friend of Brian and the recipient of Brian's sperm donation; attorney Melanie (Michelle Clunie), Lindsay's live-in lover at odds with Brian; and Debbie ("Cagney and Lacey's" Sharon Gless, in a welcome return to television) as Michael's very accepting -- make that too accepting -- mother.

Also of note is Dr. Dave Cameron ("Silk Stalkings'" Chris Potter) as Michael's hunky relationship-minded chiropractor.

The second series is currently showing in the US with a third and fourth series already commissioned. With each series being 22 episodes long, expect lots of new and innovative story lines.

US Queer As Folk
Complete Series 1 boxset
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US Queer As Folk
Complete Series 2 boxset
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