gay bachelor

[theatre2]

Posted: 7/27/08 at 11:58pm

do you think that abc tv should have a gay bachelor. i do because it is about time that a gay peson goes on the bachelor.

[joe5]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:35am

They had a gay dating show on Bravo a few years back. I don't know how well it went over. But I do remember, they put one straight guy in the mix. And if the straight guy got picked he won money.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:37am

"Boy Meets Boy"

[Raspberry]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:50am

I think it was something like Bravo's second or third highest-rated show ever at the time. But now the surprise element of secretly including straight guys is gone, so that might be why they haven't had a new season in like five years or however long it's been. I think they want that element in there so they can attract a wider audience.

FOX tried a similar thing with a woman a few years ago ("Playing It Straight") and it got canceled after only a few episodes. So I wouldn't expect a major network to take the risk you're talking about any time soon.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:53am

See? There is more to life than cast recordings of flopz.

(Anyone who has seen his posts on the main board will understand, hopefully...)

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 11:57am

If I was the lead of a gay bachelor series, I'd be worried all the guys competing for me would be hooking up with one another.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 12:31pm

I just wish Audra would have gotten her own reality show.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 12:59pm

Yeah, she was a mess, that one.

[joe5]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 1:32pm

Well Phyllis, We are all not like that. (Hooking up with one another)

[scott68]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 2:54pm

... just most of us.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 3:16pm

Phyllis has a point- I always said the premise of the show (with the 'secret hetero') was faulty. What they needed was a show where a dozen bottoms compete for the affection of one top. That would keep the show lively. Then at the end, the 'twist' is that the the top is just a big of a bottom as the others. That would provoke some fireworks!

[Raspberry]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:12pm

You have to find a way to sustain it, though, because after one season, everyone will know the twist. That was the problem with Boy Meets Boy.
Like, for the second season, maybe the main guy is a top, but it turns out all the others are straight.
And for season three, the guys are all bottoms, but we find out at the end that the main guy was actually Ann Coulter wearing a faux hawk wig.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:24pm

Or maybe a twink competing for the affections of 12 bears!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 4:30pm

NEW SHOW: Put Justin Caster in a house with a bunch of mo's and...watch what happens!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 4:34pm

They'd all take turns duetting on "As long as you're mine" with him.
Updated On: 7/29/08 at 04:34 PM

[fvalle24]

Posted: 7/29/08 at 4:40pm

"If I was the lead of a gay bachelor series, I'd be worried all the guys competing for me would be hooking up with one another. "

Hell yeah, I would be worried too! ( I wouldn't mind being a contestant! jk)