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‘Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden’ blooms on Hulu this Pride Month
By Nic Austin
JUNE 25 2024

Experience inspiration and entertainment this Pride Month with Candis Cayne’s groundbreaking new series, Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden, from the Advocate Channel, now available on Hulu!

Candis Cayne, renowned as the first transgender actress to portray a recurring transgender character in a primetime series (Dirty Sexy Money), is a pioneering actress, fashion icon, classically trained dancer, and now an expert gardener. In this captivating series, Cayne welcomes viewers into her private backyard haven, presenting a unique blend of beauty, healing, camp, and compassion. Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden transcends traditional gardening shows, celebrating resilience, creativity, and personal expression.

Kristen Carroll, CEO of SpoPro (Spotlight Productions), recognizes the importance of Hulu platforming Secret Garden. “We are delighted that Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden is now on Hulu, which has shown a tremendous commitment to the LGBTQ community,” Carroll remarks. “This show is a testament to SpoPro’s belief in the power of amplifying marginalized voices, and we believe it will resonate with audiences of all backgrounds. As Candis always reminds us, ‘Good things happen when you get a little dirty!’”

For Cayne, the opportunity to create this new series was a healing experience, one in which she hopes to share with viewers, in light of all the increased strife that the LGBTQ+ community has faced in recent years. “All you have to do is turn on the news to get a glimpse of the negativity our community has been facing. It reminds us that it’s more important than ever to live our most authentic, beautiful, multi-faceted, messy, joyous lives,” Cayne comments. “That’s why I created my show. It’s sort of [like] Pee-wee’s Playhouse meets [Martha Stewart’s] Martha Gardens—it’s full of camp and glamor, kindness and cocktails, and just a dash of shade.”

Candis Cayne’s Secret Garden’s debut is one of two original series from the Advocate Channel launching on Hulu this Pride Month. Along with Candis Cayne’s show, the Out100 Specials 2021-2023 are now part of the Hulu Has Pride celebration and are available in the Hulu Has Pride hub, serving you with your next streaming obsession, timed perfectly with Pride Month.

Celebrate Pride Month with Candis Cayne and her Secret Garden, now streaming on Hulu!

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“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” – Celebrating Queer Stand-Up Comedy
By Mister D
April 19, 2024

Netflix is set to premiere the groundbreaking documentary “Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” globally on June 18. This feature-length film delves into the rich history of queer stand-up comedy, exploring how it has served as an instrument for social change over the past five decades. Through a combination of stand-up performances, interviews, and archival materials, the documentary sheds light on the trailblazing work of LGBTQ+ comedians who have actively challenged cultural norms and values.

The film features an impressive lineup of comedians and historians who share their insights and experiences:

Lily Tomlin: A legendary performer known for her wit and iconic characters.
Sandra Bernhard: A fearless comedian and actress who has pushed boundaries.
Wanda Sykes: A trailblazer who fearlessly tackles social issues in her comedy.
Hannah Gadsby: The brilliant mind behind the groundbreaking show “Nanette.”
Tig Notaro: Known for her deadpan delivery and poignant storytelling.
Rosie O’Donnell: A beloved TV personality and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
Margaret Cho: A fearless voice who has challenged stereotypes.
Bob The Drag Queen: A drag performer who combines humor and activism.
Trixie Mattel: A drag queen, singer, and comedian with a devoted following.

Historians and Insights

The documentary also features interviews with historians who provide context and depth:

Dave Holmes: Offering historical perspectives on queer comedy.
Roger Mason: Sharing insights into the evolution of LGBTQ+ stand-up.
Shar Jossell: Discussing the impact of comedy on social change.
Susan Stryker: Providing valuable context from an academic standpoint.
Kate Aurthur (Variety Editor-at-Large): Offering journalistic insights.

Bruce Vilanch and Other Notable Interviewees

Among other comedians interviewed are Bruce Vilanch, Fortune Feimster, Gina Yashere, Guy Branum, James Adomian, Jim David, Joel Kim Booster, Judy Gold, KJ Whitehead, Mae Martin, Marsha Warfield, Matteo Lane, Patti Harrison, River Butcher, Robin Tran, Robin Tyler, Roz Hernandez, Scott Thompson, Solomon Georgio, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and Todd Glass.

Director’s Perspective

“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” is written and directed by Page Hurwitz. Hurwitz emphasizes the power of comedy to unite people and praises the comedians featured in the film for their trailblazing work. She hopes the documentary will honor their contributions to LGBTQ+ history and inspire audiences to discover new comedy heroes.

World Premiere and Netflix Release

Before its Netflix release, “Outstanding” will have its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival on June 7. Netflix greenlit the project almost two years ago, intending to complement their comedy special “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration.”

The documentary premieres globally on June 18 on Netflix, following its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival on June 7. Get ready to laugh, learn, and celebrate the trailblazing work of LGBTQ+ comedians who have fearlessly taken the stage and changed the world, one punchline at a time! ???

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Tickets Now On Sale for ‘A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened’
Nov 10, 2023
By Mr. Daps

In 1978, George Lucas was talked into cashing in on the Star Wars craze by producing a holiday variety TV special.  What could possibly go wrong?

ANSWER: Everything…

From the filmmakers behind Napoleon Dynamite and Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made comes A Disturbance in the Force, the documentary about the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special.

The Star Wars Holiday Special is infamous among Star Wars fans. Now, a documentary takes a deeper look at this special. It also will soon be in theaters on different dates in November. Tickets are now on sale for this documentary. A trailer for the film can also be seen below.

About A Disturbance in the Force

Travel back to a galaxy far, far away – the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special.  This documentary dives into the mystery of how it happened and why 45 years later it has become, much to the chagrin of George Lucas, the ultimate cult classic among Star Wars fans.

Featuring interviews with Bruce Vilanch, Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, Weird Al Yankovic, Donny Osmond, and many more.

Where To Buy Tickets

More details about this film, where it is screening, and tickets sales can all be found at HolidaySpecialDoc.com. What do you think of this documentary? Are you excited to see it? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below!

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World Of Wonder Sets ‘The Vivienne Takes Hollywood’ With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Winner
By Team BingePost
March 24, 2020

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne is touring throughout the pond to the U.S. to embark on a journey in her new collection The Vivienne Takes Hollywood.

The collection is ready to debut on April 9 on BBC3 within the UK and can air concurrently within the U.S. solely on WOW Presents Plus.

The Vivienne competed towards 9 different queens to turn out to be the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK which made its debut on the BBC final 12 months. The collection, which is an iteration of the U.S. actuality drag queen competitors that airs on VH1, debuted stateside in October.

Along with producing the Emmy-winning RuPaul’s Drag Race, World of Surprise is the corporate behind tasks comparable to Stonewall Outloud, Dancing Queen on Netflix, Huge Freedia: Queen of Bounce on Fuse, Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric on Nationwide Geographic in addition to documentaries and options together with  Mapplethorpe: Take a look at the Footage, Menendez: Blood Brothers, Inside Deep Throat, Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Ingesting, Changing into Chaz and the  Emmy-winning The Final Beekeeper.

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Apple TV+ review: ‘Visible: Out on Television’ a well-edited tour of LGBTQ TV history
By Stephen Silver
Friday, February 14, 2020

With Visible: Out on Television, Apple TV+ jumps for the first time into the sphere of the multipart original TV docuseries. The five-part series looks at the past six decades of representation on television for LGBTQ people. While the series doesn’t break a ton of new ground in terms of the stories it tells, it makes up for that with an expansive amount of well-assembled archival footage, and by putting it all in one place.

The five episodes —all five of which we have seen —were directed by documentarian Ryan White, who serves as one of four executive producers, along with Jessica Hargrave, My So-Called Life actor Wilson Cruz and actress/comedian Wanda Sykes. The episodes feature a virtual who’s-who of LGBTQ celebrities as talking heads, including Cruz, Sykes, Ellen DeGeneres, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Sara Ramirez, Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Vilanch, Billy Porter, and numerous others. They tell their own stories while also, in many cases, sharing their reaction to watershed TV moments that took place prior to when they became famous.

Each episode has a different narrator: Host/activist Janet Mock, comedian Margaret Cho, actor Asia Kate Dillon, actor Neil Patrick Harris and writer/producer Lena Waithe. This choice is sort of curious, as the narrators aren’t introduced at the start of each episode, they are not specifically associated with the topics discussed in their particular installment and all five of them also appear in other episodes. The only way the viewer can tell that person is the narrator, aside from having clicked on their picture at the start of the episode, is if they happen to recognize that person’s voice.

Oprah Winfrey, despite her other Apple project falling apart recently, pops up repeatedly. She’s seen as a talking head, in the famous Ellen episode, and in various footage of famous people coming out to her in archival interviews.

If the goal of the series was to tell the in-depth story of how the depiction of LGBTQ people on television has grown and improved over time, while also providing a nearly complete archive of footage important to the topic, then Visible: Out on Television is very much a success.

While the five-hour running time may seem daunting, the amount of footage collected here justifies the length, and one never gets the sense that the filmmakers are padding things out in order to justify the length. It’s hard to imagine a topic this expansive only taking up, say, two hours. The series is structured sort of like those old VH1 We Love the ’80s shows, all of which took ten hours to tell the story of each decade. It’s also clear that it was important to the filmmakers to be very inclusive of people of color, and also of trans people, in telling these stories.

About Visible: Out on Television

The subject of Visible: Out on Television, which was announced late last year, casts a wide net, which brings in not only sitcoms and dramas, but also late night talk shows and even TV news.

Told in rough chronological order from the ’60s to the present day, the five episodes of Visible: Out of Television tell a coherent narrative of the massive changes in how LGBTQ people have been depicted on television over the decades. In 1994, for instance, the nighttime soap Melrose Place was successfully pressured into removing a brief gay kiss from an episode. Two decades later, LGBTQ people were not only at the center of TV series, but were creatively responsible for them behind the camera.

The first episode, “The Dark Ages,” looks back at the early days of LGBTQ representation, in which actors and sometimes even characters were kept in the closet. It’s effective, despite jumping around a bit. Most amusingly, we learn that the homosexuality of longtime Perry Mason actor Raymond Burr was such a well-kept secret that even some of the out celebrities interviewed for the series weren’t aware of it.

The second episode, “Television as a Tool,” moves towards the 1970s, and the highlight is a surprisingly in-depth discussion of the sitcom Three’s Company. The show was built on a foundation of womanizing protagonist Jack Tripper (John Ritter) falsely telling his landlord that he was gay so he’d be allowed to live with two women.

Probably the strongest installment of the series is the third, “The Epidemic,” which deals with the depths of the AIDS crisis in the ’80s and ’90s, both in how the news media covered it and how the entertainment industry responded. This segues into how ’80s TV series like The Golden Girls and Designing Women were entertainment touchstones for gay men during that time, due in part to the way those casts represented chosen family. This part of the series is especially powerful since this era was clearly such a formative one for so many of those interviewed.

Modern love

The fourth episode, “Breakthrough,” moves onto the 1990s. It spends about 15 minutes on the story of Ellen DeGeneres coming out both on her show and in real life in 1997, and then goes into how LGBTQ characters began to take center stage on such series as Will & Grace, The L Word, Queer as Folk, Noah’s Arc, and more. It draws a straight line, as then-Vice President Joseph Biden did in a famous Meet the Press interview, from the popularity of Will & Grace to the growing acceptance, and eventual nationwide legalization, of same-sex marriage. The Ellen story has been told many times before, but Visible got DeGeneres to give a new interview providing present-day hindsight on that episode.

The final episode looks at the last 15 years, as trans representation has increased, and LGBTQ characters and creators have become part of more and more shows as streaming content has proliferated, from Glee to Pose to RuPaul’s Drag Race. If anything, the sheer amount of content featured shows how much progress has been made since the days of Perry Mason.

With the exception of the Paul Lynde-style alien on American Dad, there’s no attention paid to LGBTQ animated characters. What happened to The Simpsons’ Waylon Smithers, or South Park’s Big Gay Al, or the Showtime cartoon short series Queer Duck? With its considerable length, Visible didn’t leave much out, but this omission is somewhat glaring.

And while there’s been much hand-wringing about Apple TV+ insisting that its original shows remain family-friendly, Visible includes a couple of clips of brief nudity, especially during a segment in the fourth episode about the sex scenes on the early-2000s Showtime series Queer as Folk, and how controversial they were at the time.

Timed for Valentine’s Day, rather than waiting for Pride month in June, Visible: Out on Television will debut all five episodes on February 14. It’s a must for anyone interested in these issues, as well as those merely intrigued by the last half-century of television history.

Aside from the documentary The Elephant Queen, which was a film festival acquisition, Visible: Out on Television represents Apple TV+’s initial foray into long-form nonfiction programming. It shows that Apple is committed enough to the form to license massive amounts of archival footage, while also securing the participation of big names in order to examine a topic with great depth. Visible indicates great potential for documentary content from Apple TV+.

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