AfterElton Briefs: Hasty gay TV renewals, Jack Mack is back, Xanadu closes, and more!

Great news about True Blood, love this show.

Extremely bad news about Xanadú, I wont be able to see it. Sighhhhh.

Woohoo Barcelona!

And this guy is hunky fireman and calendar boy Mike Biserta, yum. Sigh.

Did they simply pick cities without knowing anything about them?

New York used its legal department to successfully oppose gay marriage equality; if you read the ruling you'd never set foot in New York again.

Sydney has a major homphobic violence problem.

Mykonos has only 9500 residents - hardly a city - and Greece has a very bad gay rights record.

San Francisco is too expensive for younger gay or straight people to afford, and its gay Halloween festivities were canceled by the city.

Berlin and London are better than Paris when it comes to integration and acceptance of the out and about gay community.

IMHO for cities over 50000 people, the list should read 1) Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 2) Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 3) Los Angeles, California, USA, 4) Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 5) Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany, 6) London, England, United Kingdom, 7) Buenos Aires (The Autonomous Community, not the Province which is different), Argentina, 8) Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 9) Zurich, Zurich Canton, Switzerland, 10) Brussels, Brussels Province, Belgium

Numbers 11 thru 30 with populations over 50000 would be...

11) Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Region, Israel, 12) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 13) Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands, 14) Vienna, Wien Province, Austria, 15) Vancouver-Victoria combined metro, British Columbia, Canada, 16) Auckland, Auckland Region, New Zealand, 17) Florence, Tuscany, Italy, 18) Perth, State of Western Australia, Australia, 19) Antwerp, Antwerpen Province, Belgium, 20) Reykjavik, Iceland, 21) Oslo, Oslo Fylke, Norway, 22) Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 23) Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24) Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 25) Teresina, Piaui, Brazil, 26) Paris, Ile-De-France Department, France , 27) Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 28) Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 29) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 30) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Raising the Bar broke records in its premiere for TNT.  The viewership has fallen off a bit, but I don't see it as hasty in the least.

Thrilled that True Blood has been renewed.  Very intrigued by this show.

Although I'm not a hundred percent committed to True Blood just yet, I'm hoping it'll pull at least decent enough ratings to at least finish out the season. I really don't want it to go out like that silly surfer/Jesus Christ comedy (the producers may have intended it to be a drama, but sadly they just couldn't reach that wave) that HBO had to kill Deadwood (RIP) for.

Please tell me Xanadu is going on tour after it closes, hopefully with Cheyenne Jackson still playing Sonny Malone! I'd hate to miss seeing him singing and skating on stage live - in those shorts - just because I couldn't make it to New York...