Another gay bites the dust: "Lipstick Jungle" axed

Is this a repercussion of Prop 8 being passed? That the TV networks all think that the country is homophobic?! Isn't it more reason to promote understanding by having gay assistant and cute muscular topless men wearing short shorts and only suspenders? This is a shame because I've come to love LJ.

 I also haven't seen the dress made by Keith!!!!!!!

Bummer!!!! 

Well, no, it's a repercussion of low ratings.  Not enough people watched.  I didn't watch myself, though had I known how cute Matt Lauria is I would have watched!

I didn't think "Lipstick" was great art, like "Daisies," but it was high-gloss fun, with a sensational performance from Kim Raver as Nico.  And it was nice seeing how Brooke Shields has evolved into a fine, credible actress as well.  Ah well, more fodder for when I do my next Amazon list of Shows I Killed By Watching Them.

Funny how if you put even the most minor of gay characters on, and you can't cancel a show without accusations of homophobia and outrage from the gay community, and every episode features complaints about lack of use of the gay character, even if he's intended to be minor.  Meanwhile, shows with no gay characters at all skate free with no notice at all from gay watchdogs.

The message here is clear.  Don't include gay characters on your show, because you're only going to be held to a more exactling standard and constantly risk outrage.  And of course, God forbid you should let an actor playing a queer character go, which we all know NEVER happens to people who play straight characters....

I loved that show so of course it's getting cancelled. Sheesh!

 They still can't appropriately handle gay content.  Also on the bubble are DIRTY SEXY MONEY, PUSHING DAISIES, and PRIVLEGED, all with gay characters.  Yet they keep,  the wimpy re-makes KNIGHT RIDER and 90210 along with the inexplicably dull LIFE, multiple procedural shows, mind numbing reality shows, and endless re-workings of multi-characters hospital dramas.  So much for creativity and originality on television; nothing new there. No wonder that they can't capture their desired audience of 18-49 males.  I also question who the Neilsen company is polling given the chnaged dynamic of  familes with both parents working just to maintain, let alone get ahead, and who have little or no time to watch TV.   Those traditional families that have a homemaker Mom and working Dad are as much a figment of advertising agencies these days as were  the free-spending Yuppies of the 80s and 90s.

I believe that SEX AND THE CITY opened the door for a whole new genre of television, shows with strong confident women who speak their mind and don't play second fiddle to the the shows male stars.  I guess all those white male heterosexual network executives feel threatened by that  concept. As they are by GLBT characters.

INSIDEGUY

Interesting posting on NBC boards that Lipstick Jungle is up for consideration for cancellation, but apparently has not YET been cancelled.

See here: http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/lofiversion/index.php/t808849.html

There is a support thread going as well on the NBC boards, found here:

http://boards.nbc.com/nbc/lofiversion/index.php/t808849.html

The press may have made a mistake!!  *grins*

~ Aurielis

NBC has confirmed that this show is NOT cancelled! Lipstick Lives!