HBO loves getting a bit gay, such as backing LGBT-themed documentaries and funding the Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra. Now it’s going to get a big gayer, as the cable network has ordered eight episodes of a TV series about a group of gay friends living in San Francisco, according to Deadline.
A pilot was recently filmed, starring Jonathan Groff, Frankie J. Alvarez and Murray Bartlett, ‘who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.’ Groff plays Patrick, who’s professionally very successful as a video game developer, but his personal life is a bit of a disaster area. Frankie Alvarez is Patrick’s best friend, Augustin, whose ego and feisty politics make it difficult for him to settle down with a boyfriend.
It’s been described as a gay version of Girls.
The show still doesn’t have a name, but I’m sure it will get one soon. It comes from Brothers & Sister creator David Marshall Grant and Bored to Death’s Sarah Condon, based on a film script by Michael Lannan called Lorimer (which was adapted from his own short).
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