As previously reported, Queer As Folk is set to return, with NBC Peacock’s streaming service commanding a reboot with a brand new cast.
Deadline has provided an update on some of these cast members and other details on the new production.
Among those joining the show will be Candace Grace (Crime Acts), Johnny Sibilly (Pose, Hacks), Devin Way (Dr Blake Simms on Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19) and Fin Argus (Clouds, The Gifted) ).
Sibilly will play, “a successful lawyer who is not as strong as he looks,” according to a statement from Peacock.
Grace “will play a non-binary teacher navigating the difficult transition from punk to parenthood.”
Way will be a “charming and at times chaotic engagement phobe who finds a reason to stay in New Orleans after a tragedy shakes his community,” and Argus “an arrogant high school student whose confidence belies his inexperience. in the real world “.
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It had already been announced in mid-August that Jesse James Keitel (Big Sky) was an actor, playing a “trans, semi-reformed party girl who struggles to grow tall.”
The new show was created by Stephen Dunn and is a reboot of the original series set in Manchester, England, written by Russell T. Davies. This series will be based in New Orleans and the characters will resume their lives following a tragedy.
Dunn created, wrote and produced the series and will direct the first episode.
“It is a surreal honor to adapt Russell T. Davies’ notoriously groundbreaking series,” Dunn said in a statement upon announcing the series.
“When the show originally aired, the idea of shameless queer stories on TV was so provocative that I felt I could only watch Queer As Folk in secret. But so much has changed in the past 20 years and how wonderful it would be if the next generation didn’t have to watch Queer As Folk alone in their damp basements with the sound muted, but with their family and their friends. friends and volume up the way to the max.
The original Queer As Folk aired on Channel 4 in the UK in 1999. An American remake, set in Pittsburgh, premiered on Showtime and ran from 2000-2005. date for when the new production will hit Peacock.
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