Posted on 09/17/2020 2:15:56 PM PDT by Ennis85
History is being made! After lots of talk over the past few years about the very heterosexual love stories featured in Lifetime’s holiday movies, the network announced on September 15 that change is a-coming this festive season. Canada’s own Scott Pilgrim vs the World star Ben Lewis will star alongside Parks and Recreation alum Blake Lee in the first Lifetime holiday movie to feature an LGBTQ love story. And the best part is Lewis and Lee are already married in real life. They say art imitates life, but in this case, art imitates Lifetime. According to TV Line, the special, entitled The Christmas Setup, will also star The Nanny’s Fran Drescher, and was co-written by members of the LGBTQ community. A home-for-the-holiday’s type of story will unfold as both Ben and Blake’s characters Hugo and Patrick meet and fall in love after some cunning matchmaking skills by Kate, played by Drescher. Lewis, who splits his time between Toronto and Los Angeles, also made the announcement today on his official Instagram account.
“There’s good-weird and bad-weird. 2020 has been bad-weird,” Lewis wrote in his caption, encouraging people to vote in this year’s American election, “but starring alongside my husband @blakeleeblake (not to mention my old friends @ellewongster, @chadjc and the ICON @officialfrandrescher) in Lifetime’s first gay Christmas movie (directed by @patkmills) definitely qualifies as good-weird. In fact, it’s the most surreal, wonderful early-Xmas gift I could ask for.” Recently on Twitter, Lewis also told the story of how he and Lee met and fell in love during the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
https://twitter.com/benlewishere/status/1263288013859090433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1263288021538881536%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theloop.ca%2Flifetimes-first-lgbtq-love-story-will-star-ben-lewis-and-blake-lee
In two-tweet thread, Lewis explained how director Edgar Wright’s choice to cast him in Scott Pilgrim profoundly changed his career and also his personal life. “At the Hollywood premiere, in the men’s room of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, I met a friend of Aubrey Plaza’s who would become my husband. Julie Powers was in our wedding party, and Ramona Flowers sang our first dance,” he tweeted, posting a photo of that fateful night.
Headline: Lufetime Records Lowest Ratings in Five Years
Lifetime needs to change its name—to Pervert Time.
Not even remotely.
I knew a father who had a son
He longed to tell him all the reasons for the things he’d done
He came a long way just to explain
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping and turned around and headed home again
It’s a very wistful song.
Something about this stinks... Smells like poop.
That is on Hallmark, not Lifetime.
I saw the ad on Lifetime and almost threw up.
Thanks for waking up my brain. Since I don't watch Lifetime either, I'm glad I missed their ad. And while I was thinking of it, I've always had my cable box set to come on to Discovery ID. The only program I ever watched on it was Joe Kenda's show. I hadn't changed the setting since his show ended, so it was still on Discovery ID when I turned the box on. I noticed Discovery ID features some stories that show women kissing, and what seems like a lot of sexual scenes. I just changed the setting to The Travel Channel, and will keep it there until they start airing crap that offends me. I record everything I watch anyway. Never watch live programming unless it President Trump, and I view that online.
Their motto might as well be, “I don’t want any viewers to tune in”.
The left ruins everything.
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