Netflix Orders LGBTQ Animated Series Q-FORCE

Deadline reports that Netflix has ordered ten episodes of Q-Force, a half-hour adult animated comedy series from Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Mike Schur's, Gabe Liedman, and Universal TV.

Written by Liedman, Q-Force is a half-hour, animated comedy about a handsome secret agent and his team of fellow LGBTQ superspies. Constantly underestimated by their colleagues, the members of Q-Force have to prove themselves time and again as they embark on extraordinary professional (and personal) adventures.

"A spy TV series is so tough, because they're so expensive," Milliner said. "We were thinking how do we get to do gay spy and every week, and the only way to do that is animated, because we can do all of the fun parts of a James Bond film. We can travel, we can have big chase sequences; animation is allowing us that freedom."

Said Hayes, "Also, I don't know that the studios would greenlight a feature with a leading character that's gay in that genre. Hopefully they will, but that doesn't seem like right now."

Added Milliner, "It does seem like it's one of the last bastions of masculinity that seems like we can't break the rule of who gets to play that part."

"I've been friends with Mike [Schur] for a long, long, long time, and I was literally driving my car to work, and he was walking," Hayes said. "I pulled over and I rolled down my window and I said. 'Hey Mike, would you want to work on something together?" He's like, 'What is it?' And I said 'Gay James Bond', and he said, 'Yeah, I would do that'. So that's how it all kind of started."

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