“But so much has changed in the last 20 years and how wonderful would it be if the next generation didn’t have to watch ‘Queer as Folk’ alone in their dank basements with the sound muted, but with their family and friends and the volume cranked all the way to the max. “When the show originally aired, the idea of unapologetic queer stories on TV was so provocative that I felt I could only watch ‘Queer as Folk’ in secret,” he said in a statement. Dunn called it a “surreal honor to adapt the notoriously groundbreaking series.”

The reboot was created by Stephen Dunn, who will be a writer and the executive producer of the series, and will direct the pilot. Tom Robinson chairs a discussion with Queer as Folk writer Russell T Davies and cast members Craig Kelly and Denise Black about the seminal 90s drama, an unf. The series finale aired on August 7, 2005, in the United States and August 15. Consisting of thirteen episodes, season five served as the final season for Queer as Folk. That series, which addressed issues such as same-sex marriage and HIV/AIDS, ran for five seasons, ending in 2005. (season 5) The fifth season of Queer as Folk, an American and Canadian television series, premiered on Showtime on May 22, 2005, and on Showcase on May 23, 2005. Davies will be an executive producer on the reboot.Īn American version premiered on Showtime just a year after the British original’s debut and centered on a group of gay and lesbian friends living in Pittsburgh.

It ran from 1999 to 2000 and included just 10 episodes. Davies, chronicled the lives of three gay friends living in Manchester’s gay village.

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