ABC Plans TV Show About Religious Minister Who Comes Out As Gay

While gay-themed TV shows have had a mixed reaction, with several failing, the networks thankfully haven’t given up on the idea of series based around LGBT characters. ABC in the US is now planning a new one, having snapped up Grace, according to Deadline.

They’re developing the show, which is about, ‘a family of adult siblings whose lives are upended when their stalwart minister father reveals to his family that he is gay. Grace is described as a serialized drama, a grounded, unfolding saga of a 21st-century American family and the everyday challenges they face as members of a community and as individuals, and how their faith both guides and complicates their lives.’

The series comes from Black List writers, Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart, with the inspiration being Stewart’s own experiences, as he himself has a preacher father who came out. It’s early days for the series, as at the moment it’s not even known if it will make it to the point of having a pilot episode made, but it could make for an interesting drama.