The Week in Gay TV: "Degrassi" Comes to a Boil, The Kids in the Hall bring "Death" and Will We Get a Second Gay "Design Star"?

Welcome to another edition of Week in Gay TV, your guide to sorting through the shows competing for your attention in the week ahead. This week has a few new arrivals, including the new Kids in the Hall series, Death Comes to Town, and a big finale for Degrassi: The Boiling Point. Meanwhile, we'll find out if we can enjoy watching Michael Moeller on HGTV beyond this week's finale of Design Star.

After 16 long years, The Kids in the Hall return to television to television Friday with the mini-series Death Comes to Town. A comedy murder mystery, the story is set in Shuckton, a small Ontario town where the mayor has been murdered and Death (played by Mark McKinney) waits for the right time to take more Shuckton residents such as Heather Weather played by Scott Thompson. It’s been way too long since I’ve enjoyed new comedy from the Kids, I can’t wait.

Meanwhile, Friday brings the Shameless episode I’ve been anticipating all season as Kash returns to Chatsworth after having faked his death to escape the debts he accumulated while a city councilor. In the years since Kash’s departure, Ian and Yvonne have moved on with their lives, but having Kash back is bound to bring up all the hurt from his betrayals over the years.

Meanwhle, I have to give Shameless credit for delivering one of my favorite moments of dark comedy in recent memory. When most of the Maguire clan visited Joe in the hospital, each family member attempted to assert their influence over Joe in their own way — threats of violence from Jamie and Paddy, Karen relying heavily on the sexuality for her threat, a poorly conceived prank from Mickey and Shane, and a murder attempt from Amber.

It’s fun to see that Amber has a lot of Mimi’s traits. Every time we see Karen’s stubborn side appear, I joke about Jamie marrying his mother. It looks like Shane’s on a similar path. I guess that means we’ll know Mickey has finally found his man when he starts dating a headstrong guy with vengeful streak.

Friday also brings a new Eureka, which finds the locals suddenly turning into statues — which probably wouldn't affect Vincent’s screen time one way or the other since he already might as well be stone given how little his character has to do anyway. 

It’s a relationship-focused episode on this week’s Being Human. Things seem to be going well between George and Sam, leaving him wondering if he could actually have a normal relationship. Meanwhile, Mitchell and his budding relationship with Lucy prompts him to look back at his last relationship, which happened back in the ... 60s. Talk about taking your time to rebound.

Midway through its second season, Being Human is delivering some really compelling drama. Kemp is a great villain. He’s so sinister and his belief that he’s making the world a better place with his experiments makes him extra creepy. It’s taking a lot of my will power to keep from reading spoilers about how Kemp’s schemes play out.