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TV Show 'Queer Eye' Smash Ratings Hit for Bravo
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| July 17, 2003
| Reuters
Posted on 07/17/2003 2:29:00 PM PDT by El Conservador
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The premiere episode of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," in which five gay men with expertise in fashion, food, grooming, culture and design remake a straight man, set new ratings records for cable channel Bravo, the network said on Wednesday.
Citing data from Nielsen Media Research, Bravo said the show's Tuesday debut at 10 p.m. ET set new records for the NBC-owned network among total viewers, households, audiences aged 18-49, and audiences aged 25-54.
The 18-49 demographic is most favored by advertisers as their core audience, while some networks rely on the 25-54 audience as a more mature target group.
Bravo said the show attracted 1.64 million total viewers, which made it the No. 2 ad-supported cable network during the hour. Bravo had previously ranked No. 38 in that hour for the season to date.
Bravo said the show's ratings were nine times better than last season's average in audiences 25-54 and more than seven times better than its average in calendar year to date.
While the show has generated significant buzz, it also garnered some critical reviews. In Tuesday's Washington Post, leading TV critic Tom Shales questioned whether the show was too patronizing.
"Forced to choose between scorn and condescension, gay people could hardly be blamed for preferring the latter -- and thus might not object to the stereotypes on parade in the series, which each week dispatches five New York gay men to rescue some poor, style-starved straight person at a crossroads in his life," he said in his column.
Bravo is preparing for the July 29 debut of "Boy Meets Boy," another gay-themed show, in which a bachelor chooses a prospective match-up from a group of eligible men. The twist, however, is that some of the men are actually straight, leaving the bachelor to try and sort out who's who.
Bravo and NBC are units of General Electric Co. .
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bravo; bravotv; gay; gayagenda; hollyweird; homosexualagenda; queer
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So it's basically 5 gay guys making a straight guy, well... gay???
Wasn't it used to be called prison??? (Jay Leno said it, not me!!!)
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:31:13 PM PDT
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To: El Conservador
I stumbled across this perversion last night. Sickening. I couldn't take it for more than a minute or two.
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:31:27 PM PDT
by
ladtx
(It's easy for me to get lost in thought. It's unfamiliar territory.)
To: El Conservador
(Gallic shrug of the shoulders) "Eh! So? Like they say, 'All brooms sweep clean when they're new.' Let's see the ratings once the novelty wears off...say after 5 or 6 episodes.
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:32:46 PM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")
To: El Conservador
I knew it was a hit the minute I heard the title a few weeks back. The show satisfies a gay fantasy and a female fantasy. The increased tolerance in American culture for gay men among straight men makes the fulfillment of the fantasy feasible for the first time.
It's a progression -- or a slide several degrees down the slippery slope, depending on your point of view -- whose time has come.
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:39:50 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: yankeedame
Yeah, but these are cable ratings. 1.6 million ain't beans.
You may never think the same way about your tailor.
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:40:45 PM PDT
by
ChiMark
To: El Conservador
Just wait.
When the ratings dip, they'll end the show by having a caged death match between the straight guy and the queens.
You think I'm joking?
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:42:12 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(The liberal's reward is self-disgust.)
To: ChiMark
We now know with some certainty that there are less than 1.64 million homosexuals in the U.S.
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:47:56 PM PDT
by
smalltown
To: El Conservador
Boy are the advertisers going to line up for this one!
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posted on
07/17/2003 2:49:59 PM PDT
by
w_over_w
To: El Conservador
I never understood why gays are so anal about fashion.
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posted on
07/17/2003 3:12:19 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(Lurking since 1997!)
To: El Conservador
The dumbing-down of America continues.
To: El Conservador
set new ratings records for cable channel BravoYeah, new ratings for Bravo. That's not saying much, overall. The Dune miniseries set records for the SciFi Channel, but that is still not the standard when compared to the ratings of other networks.
To: beckett
I also have to wonder how many people tuned in to laugh AT, not with, the swishy girly-men.
To: El Conservador
After the make-over:
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posted on
07/17/2003 4:09:18 PM PDT
by
Fraulein
To: El Conservador
Humor is a way to make something formerly intolerable tolerable.
Beware...there IS such a thing as perversion. And it's not only child molestors.
To: El Conservador
We used to troll with gay guys. The girls loved them and well, we were there to soothe their broken hearts.
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posted on
07/17/2003 4:20:46 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: ladtx
It was bad? If I had cable, I'd watch it. I think the concept is funny. Besides, it's high time that every time you see a well-dressed and groomed guy you're not correct in assuming that he is gay. American men with those cruddy looking backwards baseball caps and baggy t-shirts could use a little fashion sense.
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posted on
07/17/2003 4:50:45 PM PDT
by
PoisedWoman
(Fed up with the CORRUPT liberal media)
To: PoisedWoman
American men with those cruddy looking backwards baseball caps and baggy t-shirts could use a little fashion sense.Hint: those aren't men. They're still kids locked in a man's body.
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posted on
07/18/2003 5:35:47 AM PDT
by
ladtx
(It's easy for me to get lost in thought. It's unfamiliar territory.)
To: AppyPappy
We used to troll with gay guys. The girls loved them I once asked my sister why she had so many gay male friends. She stopped for a second, then said, "They like women better."
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posted on
07/18/2003 5:43:33 AM PDT
by
ItsJeff
To: Paul Atreides
Speaking of Dune, that wretched early 80s version was on last night.
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