Almost a Third of Queer TV Characters Will Disappear From Screens Next Year, Report Finds
Yahoo Entertainment | 2023-03-21 | Louis ChiltonNearly a third of the LGBT+ characters to have featured on US TV over the past year will not be returning in future, a new report has revealed.
Over the period between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, a total of 596 LGBT+ characters were featured on scripted TV.
Of these, 175 will not be returning in the following season, as a result of series being cancelled or coming to a pre-agreed end. The majority of these characters (140) are the result of series being cancelled.
The statistics are taken from the annual report published by the US media monitoring organisation GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).
The report takes into account LGBT+ characters across scripted primetime broadcast networks, scripted primetime cable networks, and scripted series on the eight major US streaming platforms: Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock, and Paramount+.
Did they tally up the number of non-queer characters that will disappear with those cancelled series?
Um . . . Why not?
No “sindication” joke comes to mind. If they did, they would probably suck.
CNN will be no more.
MSNBC will only have a skeleton crew.
Good times.
That data is a little incomplete for me to make any judgements. Are they being replaced by other shows with other Alphabet people? Will there be a reduction in woke shows next year? Should I be happy that there is 1/3 less wokeness, or sad that it’s not more?
How would anyone know?
Gee, I’ll sure miss seeing…umm…uh…
Huh. I guess I just don’t care.
So now LGBTQ+ will only be grossly overrepresented instead of obscenely overrepresented in media.
But, but everyone is LGBTQRSWXZ+-#@*, right? That’s what cnn, msnbc, et al say. They would never lie to the American people!!!!!!
It is just the characters disappearing, right?
Not the actors.
Right?
Then this would’ve been titled “Heh,” not “Huh.”
So much for the saying happy and gay…