AggieDave 6 #1 August 5, 2003 I don't even know what that TV show is, but it sounds like, from the description, it'll be freak'n hilarious with Leno "involved" on the show. QuoteLeno to Get Makeover from 'Queer Eye' Guys 2 hours, 45 minutes ago Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Is a "Queer Eye" plus Jay Leno (news - Y! TV)'s big chin the right look for good ratings? The NBC television network thinks so. Reuters Photo Reuters Slideshow: TV: 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' With new reality series "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" having become a breakout summer hit for the Bravo cable TV channel, Bravo parent NBC said on Monday it will bring the show's "Fab Five" make-over artists onto "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for a pair of special appearances next week. The "Queer Eye" quintet will make their "Tonight Show" debut as guests on Aug. 14, then return the following night to give Leno and his program a special make-over. "Queer Eye," which has become a major ratings winner for Bravo, features five gay men with expertise in good grooming, food, fashion, culture and interior design coming to the aid of a hapless heterosexual slob. The hour-long show has drawn the cable channel's highest audience numbers ever. An initial half-hour repeat of the show on NBC proved to be a solid ratings performer, and "Queer Eye" hype has continued to build in U.S. popular culture since that special broadcast. NBC plans to air a second 30-minute prime-time installment on Aug. 14, the same evening as the Fab Five's debut on Leno. While audiences have taken warmly to "Queer Eye," some of the nation's top TV critics have been mixed in their reviews. "In this long summer of instantly disposable reality TV, cable's Bravo channel manages to break through the pathetic pack by slyly subverting one of the genre's conventions," TV Guide critic Matt Roush wrote in this week's issue. "Yes, the 'Fab Five' can be bitchy, but as they bond with their subject, there's a lot of heart in the way they root for him." Washington Post critic Tom Shales took a different tack, though, in his initial review of the show. "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," he said last month. NBC and Bravo are owned by General Electric Co. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20030804/en_nm/leisure_queereye_dc--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #2 August 5, 2003 Oh my gosh, it's a hilarious tv show! I think it comes on Tuesday nights on Bravo. Defintely worth watching, the one-liners that they guys have are great!She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ginandjuice 0 #3 August 5, 2003 I have to agree that "Queer Eye" is absolutely hilarious! I love that show and especially the guy Carson who is so flaming and witty with his one-liners that I cant help but laugh throughout the whole show. GINNYThe words I have to say, May well be simple but they're true, Until you give your love, There's nothing more that we can do-David Bowie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
