Showtime Renews Queer as Folk
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 6/3/2002 2:00:00 PM
Showtime has renewed Queer as Folk, its highest-rated series, for two more seasons.
The premium network ordered a pair of 16-installment seasons, the first of which is slated to premiere in March 2003, president of programming Jerry Offsay announced Monday.
The drama -- which tracks the personal and professional lives of a small group of gays and lesbians in Pittsburgh -- is currently winding down its second season, which concludes June 16.
Elsewhere, Showtime Networks Inc. has acquired the animated Bob and Margaret series that previously aired in the United States on Comedy Central.
Bob and Margaret's initial exposure will come on multiplex Showtime Women beginning in July. The series -- including 26 installments that have not yet been seen in the United States -- will later migrate to other Showtime channels.
A Showtime spokesman said the unscreened installments will run first, while the first season will start airing in summer 2003.
Based on Academy Award-winning short Bob Birthday, the series mines comedy from turning the mundane into misadventures.
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