ROAD TO THE MEDIA AWARDS: GRΣΣK II
OUT.com features an interview (by our good friend Shana Krochmal) with Paul James, the actor who plays gay college student Calvin on GRΣΣK, a nominee for Outstanding Drama Series at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Paul explains how a show with such inclusive representation ended up on ABC Family, a network with conservative broadcasting roots:"ABC Family is really trying to rebrand itself, trying to fill the niche that the CW has left. There is a lot more programming coming on in the next year, trying to get an older demographic. At the same time they're trying to keep the family aspect, which I think is really alive on our show -- the brotherhood and the sisterhood and the support you get from fraternities or sororities. And the creator of the show [Patrick Sean Smith] is gay, and I think he wanted to put something on that responds to who he was as a kid. There weren't very many positive portrayals on TV when he was growing up. And if one out of every 10 people are homosexual, then you've got to think that there are a lot of people in fraternities or sororities that are closeted."
For more of the Q&A, check out the transcript here.
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