Leading out of BIG FREEDIA on Wednesday nights, TRANSCENDENT – the best new series premiere among Adults 18-34 in network history – was also renewed, picked up for a second season to premiere in 2016. It was the second highest-rated first season of any original series ever on Fuse among Adults 18-34.
Some fun candid photos of me hanging out with Calpernia, writer Ron Nyswaner, and actor Lee Pace. What a lovely surprise! I thought the film would have nothing on it.
Bonus shot: My Facebook friend Raven Nevermore retouched the one of Ron and me!
I had the pleasure of attending the Los Angeles premiere of The Danish Girl. Following the screening I had a chance to say hello to director Tom Hooper and thank him for taking on this project, which was 17 years in the making.
November 15, 2015, 8:01 PM EST
On Fuse, Transcendent became the network’s top-rated new original series in the target demo, adults 18-34, when it launched last month. Its Wednesday night companion show, Big Freedia, in its fourth season, delivered the channel’s highest-ever season premiere in the 18-34 demo, according to Nielsen Live + 3 Day data.
[Chris McCarthy, general manager of VH1 and Logo] dubbed them “the Norman Lears of the LGBTQ community” and said their shows have “pushed the conversation” in popular culture and in entertainment. Had it not been for 2008’s Transamerican Love Story on Logo and other “360-degree” looks at trans issues, there would be no I Am Cait, he said.
http://www.adweek.com/news/television/how-producers-behind-rupauls-drag-race-went-extreme-mainstream-168109
Thanks to Ari Karpel and everyone on the Outfest board and staff for putting together another lovely Legacy Awards event to raise funds for preserving LGBT media! The Legacy Project’s next big restoration is The Queen. Check out this montage by legendary performer Heather Fontaine.
With our Lady J at the 2015 event.
Via IndieWire:
As previously announced, Tom Hanks will be honored with the Trailblazer Award in recognition of his Oscar-winning role as a man grappling with HIV/AIDS in Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia” (1993); Lisa Cholodenko is receiving the Visionary Award, which recognizes artistic and creative contributions to LGBT media visibility, for her myriad LGBT-oriented films and television efforts (including “The Kids Are All Right”).
Presenters this year will be actors Aaron Eckhart and Rosemarie Dewitt. Master of Ceremonies will be comedian Whitney Cummings (whose sarcastic spirit made cancelled NBC sitcom “Whitney” a very guilty pleasure). Grammy winner and LGBT advocate Linda Perry, most famous for her much-remixed 4 Non Blondes single “What’s Up?,” will perform at the Legacy Awards.
Read the rest:
To learn more and to support the Outfest Legacy Project, please visit their site:
http://www.outfest.org/about-the-legacy-project/
Join me in supporting emerging #transgender comics Sun 11/15 @ The Improv in Hollywood!
The ComicCure presents
TRANSFORMATION
life is not black & white
Featuring
Hosted by Igor Orlovsky
All proceeds to the Los Angeles LGBT Center translounge.org
Sunday Nov. 15 @ 4:00 pm
$10 presale tickets at:
Posted By Peter Lawrence Kane @WannaCyber on Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:35 PM
The first(?) season of Fuse’s Transcendent ended with a simple, three-part structure centered on S.F. Pride, at which the ladies performed as a group and as backup twerkers for Big Freedia.
http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/11/05/transcendent-finale-recap-tears-big-freedia-and-a-sweet-coming-out
For the finale episode airing tonight, titled “Facing The Truth,” it’s going to be quite emotional. Bionka has a long overdue heart-to-heart with her grandmother, and L.A. isn’t sure how her father will respond when she reveals her true identity. The ladies also get a last-minute request to perform with Big Freedia at San Francisco Pride.
