Logo TV
One of the new gay/lesbian/etc. cable networks, LOGO, is reviewed in Slate today. Their critic's verdict is that LOGO is too bland and stuffed with g-rated stories.
"So far, the network's slate seems to consist largely of earnest gay-themed movies like The Brandon Teena Story (a documentary about the real-life murder case on which Boys Don't Cry was based), Heavenly Creatures, and The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, in which Glenn Close plays a lesbian colonel who sued the military after being discharged for her sexual orientation," writes Dana Stevens.
"Earnest"? I use TV as mental Sani-flush. A steady diet of those movies would be more depressing than relaxing!
LOGO is available on SF's DirecTV on channel 263 as part of their TOTAL CHOICE® PLUS and TOTAL CHOICE® PREMIER packages. We don't upgrade our DirecTV service, and I don't think the idea of a good-for-you gay-themed network is going to get us to switch. (LOGO is also available via RCN cable but isn't yet on Comcast in our area or on DISH network.)
I guess my comfort TV needs will have to continue to be served by Murder, She Wrote's, The Daily Show, and Fraiser DVD's.
More information is on the LOGO site. Note: The LOGO site uses Flash heavily and requires it for some information (a stupid requirement, in my professional webmaster opinion).
"So far, the network's slate seems to consist largely of earnest gay-themed movies like The Brandon Teena Story (a documentary about the real-life murder case on which Boys Don't Cry was based), Heavenly Creatures, and The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, in which Glenn Close plays a lesbian colonel who sued the military after being discharged for her sexual orientation," writes Dana Stevens.
"Earnest"? I use TV as mental Sani-flush. A steady diet of those movies would be more depressing than relaxing!
I guess my comfort TV needs will have to continue to be served by Murder, She Wrote's, The Daily Show, and Fraiser DVD's.
More information is on the LOGO site. Note: The LOGO site uses Flash heavily and requires it for some information (a stupid requirement, in my professional webmaster opinion).