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Queerview television guide for the weekend of July 11

Friday

The Young and the Restless (CBS) Check local listings
Today's installment features an appearance of Judge David Young in his first acting job ... and, no, he won't be playing himself.

Doctor Who (SciFi) 9:00 PM EDT
We're down to Russell T. Davies's final four episodes on Doctor Who, as Davies starts to build things up for his big finale (this is also the 50th episode since Davies took charge of the franchise). 

E! True Hollywood Story (E!) 9:00 PM EDT
THS takes a look at the life and tragic death of Heath Ledger.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC) 12:37 AM EDT
Tonight's guest list includes Will & Grace scene-stealer Sean Hayes, and with luck we'll get to hear more about Hayes' intriguing new project, "Bi-Coastal".

Saturday

Catherine Tate and James Nesbitt

The Graham Norton Show (BBC America) 10:00 PM EDT
Oh boy, it's Catherine Tate and James Nesbitt chatting with Graham this week. If they could capture the energy of that conversation, they could power a major city for weeks.

Sunday

Big Brother (CBS) 8:00 PM EDT
So. Uhm. Yeah. Big Brother is back and after the nastiness of the last two seasons, the mere idea of watching Big Brother just leaves me feeling exhausted. On the other hand, gay rodeo bull rider Steven seems not to have the catty "I'm here to stir things up" personality that Big Brother usually seeks in gay men. He says his strategy will involve using his gayness to befriend the women and his macho pastime to befriend the guys, which, annoyingly, gets me interested a bit.

Big Brother's gay housemate, Steven

Design Star (HGTV) 9:00 PM EDT
The final five designers face the dreaded kitchen challenge this week ... considering the difficulty that one usually gives hopefuls (or so the HGTV site tells me), should we worry about the newly re-enforced team gay?

Brooke Knows Best (VH1) 10:00 PM EDT
The Hogan Knows Best spin-off sees the Hogan daughter out on her own and living with a gay roommate, Glenn, dragging me into a corner of the VH1 reality universe I've avoided until now.

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  • Ashley's picture

    Doctor Who

    The last 4 episodes of Doctor Who are great! I've watched them all. I sad to miss Cathrine Tate on Garham Norton though. I'll be youtubing it though.
    dback's picture

    Howdy, Steven

    Future epitaph: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

    Nice eyes.  Great smile.  Huge....buckle.

    netogeno's picture

    Midnight

    Midnight is a fantastic episode. Leave it to RTD to put such heavy social commentary in such a fun hour. I was enthraled the entire time. Highly recomended for anyone, even if they are not regular viewers. Besides is LGTB inclusive and incredibly gay coded. Very fun.
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    wagville's picture

    Really?

    I'm hard-pressed to remember anything LGBT inclusive about the Midnight episode. It was well done, for sure (though I think I'd use "tense" moe than "fun" to describe it).

    As far as the next comment that this was the favorite episode of the season . . . for me, the one-two punch of the finale was a pinnacle. I'm still thinking about how beautiful the ending was, and how epic--and poetic--RTD knows how to make things.

     

     

    More inadvertent-fanboy musings at the blog.

    netogeno's picture

    Yep

    When Mrs...something (Lesley Sharps character) is talking to the Dr. she says that she just broke up with her partner and that "she" (refering to her partner) said they needed space so "she" went to another galaxy.

    As for "fun". The episode was tense, even disturbing. It was something unusual for Dr. Who in this magnitude. And that was "fun" to watch.

    Dave's picture

    You're right, netogeno...

    ...I missed that the first time around. Thanks for pointing it out.
    joeyhegele's picture

    Midnight

    Midnight is my favorite Doctor Who episode of this season (though the second to the last was pretty awesome).  It is Hitchcockian in its tone, and clearly was inspired by his film Lifeboat.  It is the kind of episode that gets under your skin and stays with you after it is finished.  Davies wrote it himself, and it clearly feels like an episode created by the master.  Highly recommended.
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    roni1133's picture

    New Season of Color Splash!

    The new season of Color Splash with David Bromstad starts Saturday night on HGTV at 9 ET!  I can't wait! 
    Anthony's picture

    Actually, RTD isn't done yet.

    He's writing the Three specials for Christmas and next year. So he's not left the writing room yet.
    Lyle Masaki's picture

    That's true...

    ...so I made sure to phrase it as we're headed to his last few episodes, which IMO is a distinction from the specials. While (based on his past specials) I'm sure the 2009 specials will be amazing, the season finale is supposed to be the big wrap up to his run where he tries to "put the toys back in the toybox" for Moffat. At the least, this is being hyped as his big finale, so I'm expecting they'll play differently and give us different reasons to tune in.
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    One last Doctor Who/Barrowman comment

    I was watching a Brit talk show on YouTube, in which John Barrowman was asked the U.K. version of "marry, fuck or kill" (I believe they call is "wed, shag, or push off a cliff"). The two odd-looking male hosts were two of his choices and David Tennant was the third. Barrowman said he'd have to choose Tennant for shagging, since the Doctor's nickname is "David Ten-inch." Gotta love the size queens . . .

     

     

    The blog is getting gayer. Mikey V in the blog.

    Lyle Masaki's picture

    And sigh...

    This weekend's TV gave me two reason to get grumpy with BBC America. First, seeing Leslie Sharps on Doctor Who reminded me that BBC America probably won't be airing the second season of Afterlife. Boo.

    Then they had to air a Graham Norton where they discuss a Doctor Who episode that doesn't air for a couple more weeks, here. Couldn't they have delayed that one for a couple weeks?