The Brit TV Channels have been enjoying a positive cornucopia of excellent new LGBT programming to mark the 50th Anniversary of the (partial) criminalization of homosexuality. We have been reading about it all with such green eyes this side of the Atlantic as nearly all of it can only be viewed within the confines of the British Isles. BUT today we have good news about the latest drama that started airing over there this week to universal rave reviews, Man in An Orange Shirt will be shown on PBS Masterpiece Theater Series. There is a small snag however (but isn’t there always?) as PBS have announced they will be screening it as part of Gay Pride Month. In 2018!
Check out the article in London’s Guardian Newspaper that tells how openly gay novelist Patrick Gale wrote this loosely based on a discovery he made about his own parents’ relationship, and tells the gently wrenching story of a secret romance between soldiers Michael and Thomas, and the increasingly frayed marriage of Michael and his new wife Flora, whom he marries because, well, it’s the 1940s and that’s just what people did.
This 2 part series stars Julian Morris, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Julian Sands, Frances de la Tour and the fabulous Vanessa Redgrave.
Labels: 2017, British TV, culture, gay history, PBS
