It looks like homosexuals in Hollywood won’t be reduced to just playing B-list celebrity assistants. Ilene Chaiken, the power lesbian behind Showtime’s The L Word, is opting not to let the series — in theory — die with this year’s sixth season closer. Introducing The Real L Word: Los Angeles, which sounds every bit as trite as the MTV reality series they stole the name from. We’re just hoping there’s some Real Housewives mixed in there.
Chaiken’s new reality series, also airing on Showtime, will follow six real lesbians in Los Angeles as they go about their lives, moving in together on the second date, rebuffing heterosexual men who work in “the industry,” and breaking all sorts of lez stereotypes.
If all goes well (read: casting is a bitch), expect the series to launch next year. Or maybe this will go the way of Chaiken’s first L Word spin-off attempt, The Farm, which was basically DOA.
Oh, and for all you gals out there expecting Chaiken to finally bring some “real lesbians” to television, you can forget about it. She didn’t have any problem casting only beautiful, mostly lipstick girls on the original L Word, so don’t think for a minute she’s gonna put anyone on there whose career path ends at “pottery making.”
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Martina Navratilova’s complaints about “too much sex,” meanwhile, will (and should) also be ignored.
DeAnimator
Ilene Chaiken just needs to go away and die. Thumbs up to her for not representing lesbians at all or casting anyone besides a group of white, middle-upper class heterosexual women. It’s almost 2010, if there isn’t diversity in casting, it is intentional discrimination. Anyone who can look at their cast of all white actors and say “….hmm….yep…nothing wrong with this” is ridiculous.
Annie
No how, no way, will I waste my time watching anything Chaiken touches, ever again.
GranDiva
Umm, Jennifer Beals is white? Rose Rollins is white?
Elladel
I think Lesbian/Gay TV programming is just getting past the stage where we would say, oh boy, there’s something (anything) GAY on TV!!! I think we have grown to the level of actually wanting some good programming. The idea of Real L Word sounds awful. I see more than enough “real” lesbian drama in my every day life as a lesbian, LOL!
John from England(used to be just John but there are other John's)
@GranDiva:
Lol. Jennifer Beals bless her socks can’t stop going on about how she’s of mixed origin-black and white.