This Sunday, two gay-interest series begin their second seasons on IFC: The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman and The Business. Jackie Woodman was one of those series I meant to check out during its first season (it got plenty of critical praise) but never got around to actually watching. I first heard about The Business from one of Michael's TCA round-up posts.

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman follows an aspiring screenwriter (played by Laura Kightlinger) dealing with the dysfunctions of Hollywood. Patrick Bristow (pictured on the left) plays Mitchell, a gay assistant at the entertainment magazine where Jackie works to pay the bills. I have to admit, I love that Jackie Woodman offers cocktail suggestions for each episode, even though the first few sound a little too sweet for my palate. You may know out actor Bristow from his roles on Ellen and in the glorious trainwreck Showgirls. (BJ: Favorite quote of his from the latter: "She's no butterfly!")

The Business, meanwhile, is a Canadian comedy about the producer of a Girls Gone Wild-style series of videos who tries to go legitimate. The first season followed the making of his first mainstream film, the second follows the studio trying to build on the success of their first movie. A minor character in season one, Terrence (Matt Silver) plays a gay character who falls for a new co-worker (Neil Napier, pictured on the right) in the second episode. Our own Two Gay Guys didn't care for the second season but comedy's pretty subjective, so I'll see how I react to this one.

Both series' web sites have a short video clip recapping the first season, making it easier to jump in.

Not too far back we published a long look at groundbreaking gay sex scenes in cinema, ranging from Another Country to Taxi Zum Klo. Needless to say, it was an incredibly unpleasant task to have to wade through all that hotness in the name of entertainment journalism.

In conjunction with their in-progress Indie Sex documentary series (which we reviewed yesterday), IFC is running a list of the 50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Cinema. While most of the entries are of the heterosexual variety (and believe us when we say we wouldn't expose you to that kind of "element" if we didn't know you were all mature adults), so far two (or three, depending on how you look at it) gay scenes have popped up on the list, with more possibly to come. Er, appear.

At #44 we find Todd Haynes' groundbreaking Poison, which featured a storyline detailing a sad prison obsession story evocative of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The scene in question involves one prisoner copping a feel on his sleeping cellmate, and it apparently caused quite a furor with the Christian right when the film was completed (with the help of NEA funding).

Popping up at #25 is the infamous scene in John Waters' Female Trouble where Divine actually rapes himself, playing both cha-cha-heel-loving heroine Dawn Davenport and a lecherous man. It's the only time I can think of where an actor had sex with himself onscreen -- consensual or no -- and it's definitely memorable.

And at #23 we have the even more infamous "pup-tent" scene from Brokeback Mountain, which must rate as one of the shortest on the list, irregardless of the impact it made and attention it got.

Being basically a guide to dirty bits in movies, there are of course other items of note. At #38 we have a straight sex scene from gay filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (I'd argue that the gay threeway with The Star-Spangled Banner being sung into one guy's can is more memorable, but whatever).

The list continues with 10 more entries being unveiled today and 10 more tomorrow. We'll letcha know if there's more queer goings-on in the bunch. Any guesses as to what might take the top slot? Er, spot?

Due to my travel schedule as well as a laptop clearly possessed by some sort of demonic spirit, it took us a little longer than expected to get up a new TWO GAY GUYS vlog post. But we're back at last and coming to you live from Palm Springs, CA where it's 105 frickin' degrees. Honestly, why does anyone live here? I don't care how nice it is in January!

But I digress. This is one of our "Passing Judgment" segments and this time out we discuss the AMC channel's new show Mad Men, the second season of IFC's The Business, and two new books — Seventy Times Seven and The Saints of Augustine. So sit back, relax and enjoy!