GLAAD BAGS

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation just released their third annual ?Network Responsibility Index?, as if the networks had a responsibility to any one special interest group. It?s rather telling that HBO led the list and were rated as ?good? because there was a 42% representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on the network, while CBS came in last and got a ?failing? grade with only 5% of their characters being openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (and they only got that because of a couple of smoes on SURVIVOR and THE AMAZING RACE).

NBC also got a failing grade with 8% ?LGBT? representation last season, but they plan to bump things up a notch with some hot lesbian action being added to HEROES later this year. A senior spokeslesbiangaybisexualtransgender said ?We hope that CBS and NBC will be able to better reflect the American scenes on their shows?.

Granted, CBS?s 5% is pretty bad, but CBS has pretty much sucked at everything they?ve ever tried to do and I?m a stock holder so I can say that. What I don?t get is why HBO is only rated as ?good? with 42% representation? I?m told only 10% of America is LGBT, so I?d say 42% is a little more than ?good?. In fact, it?s going overboard. It?s gayer than Lifetime for the love of God and all that?s holy.

I say CBS blows the doors off GLAAD next season with a couple of little tweeks:

Doogie Howser is already gaying up HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, but what if John Cryer finally came out of the closet on TWO AND A HALF MEN?

Would it be that big of a leap for David Caruso to spoon with a fella or two once a week on whichever CSI he?s on?

NUMB3RS, a show about a cop that is really, really good at math is already a pretty gay show, not a whole lot left to do there; but THE MENTALIST is real dreamy, very clean and doesn?t have a girlfriend. You don?t have to be able to read Rip Taylor?s mind to see where this is going. And who hasn?t thought a little girl or girl action would be just the thing for MEDIUM? ?I sleep with dead people?. Does GLAAD cover necrophilia or do they have their own paramilitary terror-lobbyist?

Come on CBS. This is 2009. Leaving a few unasked questions about Jessica?s long time companion on MURDER SHE WROTE isn?t enough. Either one of the NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE involves D-rings, a flannel shirt and tickets to a kd Lang show, or we?re talking boycott.

This Just In...

This is why I'd never make it in the Hollywood Studio System: Sony just extended their contract with Michael De Luca becasue they are so happy with the work he's done for them as producer. He's the guy that brought us THE LOVE GURU, GHOST FIDER, ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE and A MAN APART and yet Sony just renewed his 'first look' deal through 2001 because, as Amy Pascal (co-chairman of Sony Pictures) says, 'He brings us fantastic projects... and he so loooves movies'. The extra 'o's in loves are hers.

Due, only in part I'm sure, to the hits Sony took on De Luca's choate folio of films, Sony laid off 3.5% of their workforce earlier this year, but hey, Mike loooves movies, so that's ok. Maybe his Paul Bettany vehicle, PRIEST, will turn things around for Sony. It sure smells like a winner. It's about a reble priest who tosses off the yolk of church law and tracks down the vampires who kidnapped his niece... I shit you not.