Australian tv-comedy ‘Please like me’ “to gay” for ABC1 ?
Is Please Like Me too gay? That is what Josh Thomas the show's creator and actor is asking after shunted the show into digital channel ABC2.
According to the The Australian :
The ABC insists the gay content isn’t the reason Please Like Me was shunted to ABC2, where it is sure to attract a smaller audience.
“The tone of Please Like Me and the issues discussed are principally aimed at an audience in their early 20s,” an ABC spokesperson says.
“Since ABC1 is largely a channel of mass appeal that tends to attract an audience with an average age the other side of 35, we decided the best home for Please Like Me was ABC2.”
Thomas isn’t convinced.
Since the fact is, in 2009 Channel 7 in Australia censored a lesbian kiss between policewoman Charlie Buckton (Esther Anderson) and deckhand Joey Collins (Katie Bell) in Home and Away.
It seems that Down-under is far behind most of the countries in Europe when we are talking about gay characters in TV-series addition to LGBT rights.
It’s looks like ABC might be afraid of Australian conservative lobby groups, that is living in another century than rest of us.
Take Neighbours gay character Chris Pappas (James Mason), how often do he kiss on screen ? Once in every 6 months maybe, but the straight characters is kissing every week. Even there you can smell that the show is holding back to not offend a poor soul that is not living 2013. Some people is gay, it’s time to get over it.
So Josh Thomas has the right not to believe in ABC’s excuse not airing the Please Like Me series on ABC1 as planned.
Yesterday, I wrote :
You have never seen something like it, Please Like Me is something new, something great – it’s highly recommended by MySoCalledGayLife.co.uk.