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Trans sitcom ‘Boy Meets Girl’ gets second season
British comedy returns
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BBC2’s sitcom “Boy Meets Girl” is green-lit for a second season.
The show follows the romantic relationship between 40-year-old Judy, played by real life transgender actress Rebecca Root, and 26-year-old Leo, a cis-gender man. The second season will show Judy befriending a trans man while Leo focuses on his work life.
“Following the overwhelmingly joyous response to series one, the team have worked tirelessly to develop series two of this incredibly important comedy. ‘Boy Meets Girl’ returns exploring all the new comic turns in Leo and Judy’s romance; we will see some surprising shifts in some of their family members as attitudes and circumstances have changed since we last saw them. This year, we will also explore a whole new Trans experience,”Commissioning Editor for BBC Comedy Kristian Smith told BBC.
Creator Elliott Kerrigan won the Trans Comedy award for writing “Boy Meets Girl” which led to it becoming a sitcom on BBC. The award is a talent search for writers to portray transgender characters in comedy.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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