LOGO ditches gay programming
LOGO ditches gay programming
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:47pm
Its an outrage! It's a sell-out! Its internalized homophobia! Its...no, I just really don't care.
LOGO goes for "mainstream programming"
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#2LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:53pmSo sad. I'm going to miss all their great original shows, like...uh...well...the one with the...no, that was a different channel...ummmm...oh yeah, that one that was...no, wait, that was just a dream...well there was the...uhhhhh...Rick & Steve were funny, sometimes.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 1:57pmI don't get LOGO but I noticed it on the grid the other night: The programming consisted of alternating showings of Dreamgirls and Chicago. I audibly said "Hm."
#3LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 2:03pm
Rick & Steve were funny the first five minutes of the first episode you ever see. Honestly, LOGO could have already changed their programming and I wouldn't have noticed. I gave up on them years ago.
...Lisa Sherman, Executive Vice President of Logo. "Our goal at Logo has always been to honestly reflect our viewers’ lives..."
Uh...I never EVER would have guessed that watching your channel.
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#4LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 2:08pmIf Reichen and Spray Tan What's-His-Face are reflections of my life, I'm picking up some Windex for my mirror on the way home from work today.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#5LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 2:15pmThank god, now maybe they will start air programs that matter.
PEACE.
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#7LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 2:57pmI got a kick out of RuPaul's Drag Race. I found it funny but I never seek it out. If I'm flipping channels and find it I'll watch.
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#8LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 3:01pmI love Drag Race! It is the only show I can stomach on that network...of course I have to DVR it though. The commercials are beyond awful.
#9LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 3:08pmI'm sure they're still going to air DRAG RACE. it's the highest rated show on the channel and extremely popular.
#10LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 3:40pmHonestly...I don't wish anyone out of their jobs. I do wish however, that they'd ax the A-List series. I've watched, but I had to ask myself if I would welcome any of those boys into my living room...and I must concede NO! Our lives and our free time are worth so much more than all that cattiness!
#11LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 3:50pm
There was a coming out series years ago, when the channel first started, that was quite moving. It was a docu style show and I remember one memorable young man who was from Jamaica and wanted to come out to his father. He was so scared because as a child he saw a gay man lynched in Jamaica while he hid in a tree.
Drag Race and Drag U are brilliant, imo. The affectionate dig at Tyra Banks is priceless.
I guess I wont miss much.
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#12LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 6:25pmIt seems all they do is play Buffy, censored episodes of Queer as Folk, and ****ty gay movies.
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#13LOGO ditches gay programming
Posted: 3/5/12 at 9:53pm
I always found it odd that they had to censor things like Queer as Folk. What's the point of having a gay themed channel that is so squeamish? Anyway I'm not really sure what Logo's programming was--we got the Canadian gay station for free for a while and it seemed to be similar--largely crap. (and bad soft core porn late at night...) Isn't there a second gay station in the US too or am I making that up> I did watch Rick and Steve a bit just because a friend of mine ws an animator on it and I felt like it was supporting him, but, umm yeah.
It does seem weird though--more and more cable stations seem to come with a basic focus and then after five years they just ditch it and air whatever. I know here in Canada it seems like they all show CSI reruns no matter what their supposed theme focus.
