[pressgang] Douglas is Cancelled

[Paul Bathgate]

That would have been a great storyline and at the time how his friends
would have handled it. Really good idea.

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024, 14:15 Laura Nunn, <laura.nunn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I interviewed Kelda once for a PG fanzine (title: Kelda On The Line 😬).
>
> I asked her what changes she would have made to the series if it had
> continued and she said she would have introduced a storyline where one of
> the characters was gay - and named Frazz.
>
> Though this interview was retrospective, maybe 1996, so a few years after
> the series had finished. I think public awareness of gay issues and gay
> acceptance evolved very quickly from the mid 1990s onwards and PG was
> perhaps a tiny bit early.
>
> Also kids hated “issues” episodes. Just do a funny bit with a rabbit
> costume, and let us sniff glue on our own time.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 23 Jun 2024, at 13:52, Dipskit Comedy <dipskitcomedy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > Thanks for sharing that, Matt! Interesting read.
> >
> > I was about the same age as the PG characters when it first screened. No
> one where I grew up was openly gay back then - and I was in a youth theatre
> group. 😉 At least 3 of my friends in that group didn’t come out until
> their 20s and even then (in the 90s in Tasmania) it was a massive thing for
> them and they were worried about not being accepted.
> >
> > So even though Moff didn’t think about it one way or the other, I
> wouldn’t have expected any gay characters in a teen show back then.
> >
> > Funnily enough, the 2 characters I could see coming out on PG are Sarah
> or Frazz, who were dating in real life.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Claire
> >
> >> On 21 Jun 2024, at 23:19, Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Steven Moffat's newest creation is on ITV in the UK next week:
> >>
> >>
> https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/17/douglas-is-cancelled-hugh-bonneville-alex-kingston-steven-moffat-cancel-comedy
> >>
> >> I'm looking forward to this (as ever with anything that the Moff
> >> writes!) - hoping for typical Moff cleverness and humour.
> >>
> >> There's a small mention of PG in the article - Steven's regret about the
> >> lack of gay characters.  With hindsight, the imposition of a
> >> heteronormative love life on every key character at some point in the
> >> show feels clumsy in today's world, but would including some gay
> >> representation more than 30 years ago have felt token?  I don't think so
> >> but interested in what others think.
> >>
> >>
> >> Matt.
> >> --
> >> Matt Saunders
> >> 07506 857125
> >>
> >>
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