We’ve Got Serious Concerns About Robert Verdi’s New LOGO Show
“an internationally beloved children’s cartoon character. I want to control the wallets and minds of children everywhere.”
Soon to be seen as the most popular tagline on frightwing nutbag lunatic desparate appeals for funds to scare the bejezus out of the blue haired ladies in the square states everywhere!! :-/
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I never did like the way MTV’s Logo employs the worst stereotypes to market products under the “gay” label. It’s as if they’re turning our sexuality into a trivial fashion house called “GAY”.
They are effectively turning our sexuality into an amusement.
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LOGO: GURLINA Please!
This looks AWFUL…uninteresting, boring, predictable scenarios and scripted dribble. Staged and a total waste of time and energy.
Is this the best that your network executives and program marketers can come up with in 2009? Geez…..
Let this queen dress and style the stars…Nobody wants LOGO Network to insult the “gays” with this sterotypical, fem, UGLY, delusional…with an air of self entitlement…hack doing a TV show. My friends and I Laughed Out Loud at the insanity…than gagged and were disgusted that LOGO is doing this show.
YAWN=LOGO…It’s getting worse….maybe time to cancel LOGO on Comcast Cable as an additonal charge channel to my billing.
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Aside from “Rick and Steve” and the occasional awesome documentary, LOGO suffer from, well, sucking.
Give me some gay soap operas (not that I’d watch them, but others will), a decent news program (Jason Bellini was awesome), a music video hour (a la TRL), a travel show, a gay-themed reality show (“Shirts and Skins” was fantastic), a cooking show and a couple of personality shows (and no, they don’t have to be gay), and I’ll gladly cheer for the fact that it exists.
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Bottom line: There are artists. And actors. And shows. And movies… things that are created every day that are really, really good… and they don’t see the light of day on any network, music station, or movie theater.
And they don’t have to be gay.
They just have to be good.
Gays like the good things in life.
So why not premier them no the gay channel? Like anyone else was gonna watch it anyway… ;-)
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@TommyOC:
Completely agree with your suggestions. Right now, the only thing Logo does well is their short film show and music videos (they were the first on the Lady Gaga bandwagon). Personally, it seems like a gay soap opera would be a no-brainer.
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This show looks terrible. It feels so 5 years ago with the QUEER EYE guys and Kathi Griffin. I tuned into Logo when it first premiered and liked their wedding show, Can’t Get a Date and CBS News on Logo, but it seems they got rid of the good shows for crap like this and a drag show.
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I don’t mind dumb, but this one is too stupid. And why does everything on Logo have to be shallow trash? At least Bravo has West Wing. Can’t Logo find one decent thing to show? Can’t there be any space at all for people with taste and education? If this is the best the gay elite can do, I weep for the future.
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didn’t i hear that logo was working on a show about hustlers and their sugar daddies? when we have our “own” coming up with shows that depict us in such a negative light who needs the religious right? sounds like logo needs some new management in 2010.
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The problem w/Logo (and here!) is that they were both a few years to late. By the time they got on the cable dial, Bravo, VH1, E! and even the networks had already become so gay friendly that there was no effective reason for their existence. Not having the resources of already-established channels, they (especially Logo) have been floundering for programming that will get enough eyeballs to attract national advertisers. So far, no luck.
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Don’t like Verdi, won’t watch him. He’s seems to me to be the “superior” gay. He comes off like he’s a better gay than the rest of us. Puh-leeze. If I want to be looked down on, I can go home for free!
However, unlike others, i LOVE Kathy Griffin. I think she put gay on the map for some folks. While I don’t think she’s still on the d-list anymore as her schtick wants us to believe, I still find her likable and funny.
MTV used to be relevant when they showed videos. Now, with all the “Real World” and “Road Rules” crap, they’ve lost it.
Logo I think still has a chance if they pull their shit together. More shows about gays. More music videos. I like the gay travel shows and the gay themed movies, but that can’t carry a network. A gay soap, ala Queer As Folk, would be a definate hit.
Robert Verdi? No. Not gonna happen. Like someone said before, so Queer Eye. Why not a gay styling show, like What Not To Wear for gays. There have to some fashioned challenged gays somewhere.
Logo can do so much better.
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^^^ They tried a gay soap, Noah’s Ark, which was a critical and audience success. It got canned because the suits wouldn’t pay for it, given the network’s lousy ad rates. I’m only surprised Rick and Steve is still on.
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Wow, I’m shocked that anyone at Logo would solicit show suggestions. When Logo was launching, a friend of mine, Who is a transgender historical biographer and all-around expert in film history, had several amazing ideas for programs. When she contacted Logo about them she was told that they weren’t looking for any ideas (and clearly over the intervening 4.5 years found very few of them). This is a great way to get themselves sued. If they air a program with even a passing semblance to one that was suggested whoever tweeted it will likely file suit for copyright infringement. Most production companies return unsolicited manuscripts unopened to avoid even the appearance of impropriety (the Star Trek franchise was always a notable exception to this rule).
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Yeeesh. With all the freaking talent out here in the real world — just steps from LOGOland — glbt writers, photogs, artists, actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, designers, architects, etcetera — Verdi is their TOP pick???
Whoa, I guarantee that any five of us on here could block out a better scenario and storyboard, and get a bigger draw than the ‘chosen one’ a.k.a.Mr Unlikable Unwatchable Verdi.
Wanna bet that it doesn’t make it more than five episodes? My pet albino goldfish would swim backwards just to avoid having to watch such crapola.
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I’m sorry but this is the one gay “celeb” on t.v that makes me cringe…he’s just so AWKWARD on screen, he has absolutely NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO charisma, ZERO charm, ZERO camera appeal, not particularly good looking, very dull in both his tone of voice and what comes out of his mouth, and his whole schtick is being bitchy. This is a classic case of gay celebrity stylist who met enough celebs to put him on a few segments on E! and BAM..he’s suddenly a gay spokesperson with a reality show.
So sad…and almost frustrating it’s people like this who fill the quota of gays on t.v.
Frustrating even for Logo.
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I like him, but he seemed to be mismatched with the staff. He throws out many conversation, or humor starter sparks, but no fire ever starts, making him look strange. If they got more creative types, they would have some fun for the camera, but a wide-eyed stare is never a good sign. You need more staff members like him, who know how to bat a curve ball out of the park.
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Wanna bet that it doesn’t make it more than five episodes?
I’ll take that bet. It’ll last between six and eight, which is pretty standard for first-season Logo shows. The last episode will probably be a reunion/lost footage mess, which is also pretty standard for Logo reality shows.
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FakeName [#33]: You know LOGO better than I do, so I trust your assessment. I’d rather watch a whole series of ‘lost footage,’ bloopers and blunders from shows that didn’t make it much past the pilot than watch Verdi blather on.
All I can say, is that LOGO would be better off bringing back classic Julia Child cooking episodes — that woman was screamingly funny, and didn’t mind screwing up on camera!
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All I can say, is that LOGO would be better off bringing back classic Julia Child cooking episodes — that woman was screamingly funny, and didn’t mind screwing up on camera!
To be perhaps too serious for a moment, this comment is indicative of a greater problem within the LGBT community which is reflected within Logo’s programming in particular and the appeal to the LGBT market generally. There is little or no sense of history within the LGBT community. Sure, there are touchstones like Stonewall that are paid lip service to, but the vast rich tapestry of LGBT history is largely ignored by young people. Any number of situations facing LGBT people today have parallels – or direct analogues – to what has come before, but the modern LGBT community takes no counsel from those who have come before, fighting the same battles over and over again.
Not to get all heavy when the inspiration for this comment is a cooking show, but LGBT people striving to improve our future need to be aware of our past.
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Ech. Ugh. *sigh* Ick.
If the commercial spots are the best that this fetid, vapid, obnoxious show has to offer, then perhaps Logo should ditch it and run some more Buffy reruns. Verdi needs to get over himself. This isn’t going to be some dark horse superstar wonderchild of cable channel programming this season. Puh-lease. Three people in Boise are going to TiVo it because the people watching will be more exotic than a trip to the local bi-curious club. After that – poof! No ratings. No show. No sunglasses (thank Gawd!). WHO the hell thought this was a good idea? The only way they could get me to watch is if Verdi put all his sunglasses in a pit and melted them…never to be seen again. Heck, I’d even watch two shows for that. I’ve been over those damn glasses since the first time he appeared on TV with them. (Hey Robert – they’re not cool. The look is sooo early 80′s dynasty maven. Take them off of your head. You look ridiculous. And that two seconds of sincere admiration when someone said, “Awwww – don’t you look cute with your lil’ fashion statment there?”, was just that – two seconds of some ill-placed positive reinforcement. Step away from the glasses.)
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Hate is an awful thing to carry around with you, some of you queens need to release the hate… It’s so abvious that you whores are envious of Robert’s success. If you dont like the trailer for the show then dont watch it, why spew all that hate?
GIRLS, U NEED TO GET A LIFE..!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT’S NOT THAT SERIOURS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@Fitz: You are so right! I cant stop laughing. I feel the same way about these self absorbed “Madonnas”. The music videos are even better here because they showcase up and coming new artists from here and over seas that you couldnt find on the otherwise main stream middle america friendly music channels. Hilarious. Old fuck!! haha!Cant stop laughing! I love it! Thank you Fitz.
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I’ve got a good idea: if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. I’ve never watched any of these so-called reality shows, and I won’t watch this one. But hey, if Logo wants to put him, I say go in peace.