Pop Culture Fix: The Hallmark Channel Offers Up its Promised Lesbians at Last

Happy mid-week Pop Culture Fix, friends and foes! (Just kidding, none of you are my foes!)


+ Hallmark’s upcoming movie, Wedding Every Weekend, will feature a lesbian wedding as one of those weddings that happen every weekend. These are Hallmarks first gays ever. NBC News’ article about it has absolutely delighted me for this quote alone: “Thank you Hallmark Channel USA!,” commented one man on Facebook.

THANK YOU, HALLMARK CHANNEL! USA!

+ Ruby Rose chatted with Entertainment Weekly about why she really decided to leave Batwoman.

+ HEY SPEAKING OF BATWOMAN.

+ Beanie Feldstein is your new Harriet the Spy, and Jane “Wine Caves” Lynch will play Ole Golly.

+ Hold the phone: Keke Palmer had a Disney Channel series that didn’t get picked up???

+ Oh you know, just Stacey Abrams out here moderating a One Day at a Time panel at PaleyFest.

+ I believe you (and Carmen) will have plenty of feelings about TV Line’s list of Grey’s Anatomy characters, ranked.

+ Kimberly Drew’s profile of Janet Mock in Marie Claire is your must-read this week.

+ 🗣 TEN EXQUISITE PHOTOS OF VIOLA DAVIS.

+ The trailer for Ife, Nigeria’s first feature-length lesbian film is here.

+ Yesterday, Twitter-er Thedude3445 asked us to investigate whether or not they’d found the actual first lesbian kiss on TV: “It was between country singer k.d. lang and an unnamed cow muppet during episode 9 of the JIM HENSON HOUR, back in 1989.” We cannot yet confirm this, but Natalie did find the full clip on YouTube and wwwwoooow!

+ Tamara Smart And Indya Moore will star together in Netflix’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting

+ Roxane Gay will adapt her graphic novel, The Banks, for TKO Studios’ Marco and also obviously will executive produce. (If you’ve never read The Banks, you should; it’s illustrated by Bombshells‘ Ming Doyle. She and Gay are a dream team.)

+ Sarah Cooper is getting a Netflix comedy special that’ll be directed by Natasha Lyonne.

+ This is NOT good news: Avatar‘s creators have left Netflix’s live-adaptation of the series.

+ Over at Bitch, Rachel Charlene Lewis wrote a “goodbye to the Black bisexual messiness of High Fidelity.”

+ This isn’t gay but I love Top Chef‘s Carla Hall and she’s getting her own Food Network show!

+ And finally, the world’s last Blockbuster will soon be available to rent as an Airbnb.


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Heather Hogan

Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York City with her wife, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She's a member of the Television Critics Association, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Twitter and Instagram.

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14 Comments

  1. The kd lang video really softend the blow of that ATLA news so thank you for that one. I was really looking forward to that series, I hope it’s still good.

  2. The outfit KD Lang is wearing is so very 1989. I kind of love it.

    I don’t love the flower arrangement on the Hallmark film. It’s a bit of a mess. But yay for lesbians!

  3. So we don’t get to have an actual romance, Hallmark? Not a love story? Just get to be the background characters getting married while your straight leads fall in love.

    I guess thanks for doing the absolute least you can do for us Hallmark

  4. That Grey’s ranking is a CRIME. Why are there so many men? WHO PUTS OWEN HUNT BEFORE MAGGIE PIERCE?????

    • “Why are there so many men?” is my question pretty much all the time.

      TV, movies, politics, writers, meetings, faculty lists, nominees, directors, boards, ceos, etc. So often a disproportionate number. And so often white and cis. 🤦🏻‍♂️

  5. I’d be interested to see if Netflix live action Avatar now gets Asian and/or indigenous showrunners…

  6. Trying to adapt ATLA for live action seems like it would be extremely difficult and expensive. How could a live action version even improve on the original?

    Such a task seems doomed to fail and I pity any poor soul who attempts it.

    PS I realize the original is inherently flawed due to it being the product of two white men appropriating cultures not their own, but fixing that would require fully making a new show.

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