Dan Savage is an interesting guy. He’s become one of the most vocal and prominent voices in the gay rights fight – and is often the guy called on when the media wants a comment from ‘the gays’, but he’s also a bit divisive, with his sometimes bulldog attitude managing to anger social conservatives (as you’d expect) as well as some within the LGBTQ community – particularly due to his penchant for personally attacking those who disagree with him.
That said he also has many gay fans, not least those who admire how he and his partner co-founded the It Gets Better project.
However the ABC TV network seems to think his life would make a good TV show as they’ve ordered a pilot for a currently untitled comedy show based on him. THR says the show will be ‘a single-camera semi-autobiographical entry based on the LGBT activist/boundary-pushing columnist’s life. It centers on a picture-perfect family that is turned upside down when the youngest son comes out of the closet. What seems like the end of their idyllic life turns out to be the beginning of a bright new chapter when everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real.’
David Windsor and Casey Johnson will write the script for the pilot.
Of course, it’s still a long way from actually appearing on our TV screens, but it’s done well to make it to the pilot order stage.
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