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Contents 1 characters 1.1 = Series DVD availability in the UK 1.2 Emmet and Drew 1.3 "People of Color" 1.4 Wrong David Wellington

[edit] characters

Nearly all of the characters have their own bio page. Those without are Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus.

At the start of Queer As Folk Brian is 29. By the end he is 34. This means that the whole series went for around 5 years (in the QAF universe).

-Klarth

I put that box there.. I a lot of other TV shows have them.. It needs to be edited, I thought an image would make the page more engaging... but feel free to delete it... - SweetSurrender

I added the rest of the "starring cast," to the box ... Peter Paige (season 1-5), Scott Lowell, (seasons 1-5) Thea Gill, (seasons 1-5) Michelle Clunie, (seasons 1-5) and Robert Gant, (seasons 2-5) because for some unknown reason they weren't included. Considering that all of these actors appeared in at least 4 or more seasons of the series, I felt they should be included too.

Good idea, I agree with you that all of the cast members should be listed here. I was a member of the background cast of the series from seasons two to five and worked with everyone of them so knowing how important their contributions were to the series, they all deserve to be acknowledged. --Drew 17:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Discussion about the title of this article and its recent change can be found at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (acronyms)#Changing article titles from XXXXX (US) to XXXXX (United States). Feel free to contribute. -- hike395 16:31, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Beginning and End of the Show Statement ==

Why do people CONTINUE to revert the sentence about the OPENING AND CLOSING STATEMENT that used to air on Queer As Folk before and after the show that stated "While Queer as Folk depicts the lives of a group of gay friends, it does not represent the gay community". I'm thinking some of you are reverting that statement because you own the DVDs. The fact does remain however, that this statement did open and close the show for the first three seasons and then was omitted in the last two. Please justify your revert thanks --Julien Deveraux 00:57, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello:

A great deal of the changes to this page have been made by myself, particularly the newer information about the production as I am a former member of the production itself and worked on the show for four of its five seasons.

On a technical note, I don't understand why the episode table is being duplicated each time I try to delete it since I intended to add to it only once. If someone knows how to delete the duplicate table, please do so...the episode table is intended to be there only once. I assure everyone here that my editing of this article is to make it more factural since I have first-hand knowledge of this series. Any "vandalism" that someone mentioned was to my own text. My only mistake I guess was not doing it with an actual account which I have now done. Thanks and please understand I only want to make the information about this show as accurate as possible.

TorontoDrew

- Additions to the article by TorontoDrew and verification for those additions -

I have added some additional production information to the article that somehow was deleted previously when I posted it originally anonomously. I am reposting it under my signed name. The information is accurate as I was part of the production as a background actor (extra) for the last four seasons the show was on the air. --Drew 14:37, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

- Clarification of American/Canadian co-production -

Queer as Folk, as produced for Showtime, was a American/Canadian co-production...these are the facts to support this:

American partners: Showtime Networks Inc., CowLip Productions, Tony Jonas Productions and Warner Bros. Inc. Canadian partners: Temple Street Productions, Queer as Folk Productions Ltd. and its four successor companies

According to the information I am aware of, Showtime Network has the ownership rights and distribution rights in the U.S. and ownership rights world-wide EXCEPT for Canada. Temple Street Productions is the legal owner of the show in Canada and controller of distributions rights. Warner Bros. Inc. has the distribution rights to the series outside the U.S. and Canada.

--Drew 22:10, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] = Series DVD availability in the UK

I added the rest of the "starring cast," Peter Paige (season 1-5), Scott Lowell, (seasons 1-5) Thea Gill, (seasons 1-5) Michelle Clunie, (seasons 1-5) and Robert Gant, (seasons 2-5) because for some unknown reason they weren't included. Considering that all of these actors appeared in at least 4 or more seasons of the series, I felt they should be included too.

Hi there,

I am struggling to find out when/if seasons 2-5 are, or, are going to be made availble on Region 2 format. I have searched/asked all the main DVD distributors I can think of, including HMV in the UK who had the release of Season 1 US version for the UK.

I am unable to contact Showcase, as their website is not accessable from outside the US.

Any help would be much apreciated.

Regards,

Richard, UK --82.152.28.82 14:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Richard,

I wouldn't take this as gospel but I have heard of no plans by Showtime to release the North American (aka the U.S.) version of Queer as Folk in any format other than Region 1 NTSC. I suspect the reason is that the series, other than seasons 1 and 2, has not been widely enough released in other non-North American countries to warrant a release in other DVD formats besides Region 1 NTSC. To my knowledge, the only other English-speaking country where all five seasons of the series have been broadcast is Australia. I have heard in Britain that only some of the seasons have been shown but not all of them.

From what I know, the main priority for Showtime regarding QAF now is to get it running "off-network" which means selling the rerun broadcast rights to another cable channel the way HBO did with its Sex And The City. They claim to be negotiating with unspecified U.S. cable channels but things have been going slowly I'm sure due to the content of the series and the fact that each episode will have to be heavily edited for language and content before it can be shown on any standard U.S. cable channel.

BTW...the Showcase website WAS accessible by anyone...Showcase is the Canadian cable channel that aired the show and had a web site devoted to the series even though they were no longer broadcasting it...that website, unfortunately was taken down by Showcase at the beginning of February 2006 and is no longer available...you were probably thinking of the Showtime website in the U.S. which is in fact not accessible by anyone who has an IP address that is not an officially U.S. registered address.

Drew 18:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

But Series One has actually been released on DVD in the UK, which is why Richard was asking about series 2-5. Also, in the UK we have seen four seasons of QAF and I would imagine that the fifth will be broadccast too. Maybe the UK DVD has nothing to do with Showtime? It was only available from HMV after all.

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You are correct, the UK release of the North American version of QAF has nothing to do with Showtime. The non-North American rights to the series are held by Warner Bros. Television International Distribution and they would generally make the decisions on when QAF DVDs are released outside region 1. Generally speaking, it's been my experience that non-region 1 DVDs of North American series are much slower to be issued than in region 1. Sometimes, that even extends to region 1 as well. For example, QAF was actually made in Canada here in Toronto [I was a member of the background cast for seasons 2-5] but while the season 5 DVDs are available in the USA as I write this there is no release date for Canada. Canadian releases tend to be a week to a month behind the US release but this time, no one knows why there is no Canadian release date. The Canadian DVDs are also not distributed by Showtime either but rather by Alliance-Atlantis, the parent company of the cable network Showcase that QAF ran on.

I suspect that someday, there will be a region 2 set of DVDs for the entire series but as of now, I have not heard of any plans by Warner to do this. And this may possibly be because one season has not been broadcast in the UK yet. TV companies are fickle like that. For my part, I hope and want Brits to be able to see the entire series so I will hope that Warner does plan on releasing region 2 sets soon.

Drew 12:36, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Emmet and Drew

I missed the season finale of Queer as Folk and wanted to know what happened between Emmet and Drew??

Hey...here's their story from season 5...Drew was eventually outted and initially lost his job as Pittsburgh's quarterback. However, with Emmett's support, he came out on Emmett's TV station and he and Emmett briefly resumed their relationship. Drew even was rehired by the team for a while when they needed a quarterback again. However, the first time Emmett took Drew to the real Babylon (rather than the dream sequence from season 4), other guys started to ogle Drew and he let himself be carried away with it. Emmett realized Drew was not ready for a relationship. In episode 512, the two met at Woody's and Emmett said he understood that in the gay world, Drew was like a teen just coming out. Drew agreed and they agreed to part as friends. Emmett said that he would like to meet Drew again and have a drink with him when he was "21", meaning when Drew had come to terms with his sexuality and was ready for an adult relationship.

BTW...as a background actor on the series, I was fortunate enough to have been in both the dream sequence Babylon scene in episode 412 (look for a guy in a black tank top with red trim dancing with them) and the above break-up scene in 512 where I am standing literately behind Matt Battaglia (Drew) in my brown and navy leather coat. You can also see just a bit of my black and blue PITTSBURGH t-shirt. That was a fun scene to do....and finally, yes, ironically enough, my real name is Drew too.

Drew 14:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

So nothing was mentioned of thier relationship in the finale??

No, the relationship formally ended during episode 512 and Emmett moved on. In the last episode, Emmett meets someone from his old high school in Hazelhurst, MS who reveals that he himself is also gay and the two decide to get better acquainted. Drew 18:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, In way I'm happy for Emmett but yet I loved the love story between him and Drew. tdwuhs

Especially if you could see how handsome Matt Battaglia is in person. During the filming of the scene in episode 512 when Emmett and Drew break up, I was standing right behind Matt (Drew) for the entire shoot. That was fun. Drew 16:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I would have wet myself. I want to meet a straight acting top guy. Again I really loved the love story I wish it could have worked out. tdwuhs

[edit] "People of Color"

I'm referring to a reference that was removed in this article on "people of color" in favor of "non-white." If you go to the "people of color" article it says that the reason it is offensive is because of the us-vs-them attitude with the focus being whites and non-whites. If you are going to use the term non-white you might as well use the term "people of color". The phrase DOES NOT just refer to african americans, it refers to all non-caucasion peoples.--Torourkeus 20:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong David Wellington

Obviously, the link toward David Wellington is not the good one (director vs. writer, born in Canada vs. in Pittsburgh).

I neither know anything to say about the QAF David Wellington, nor how to make a disambiguation page, nor if it'd be very appropriate toward an empty page.

If someone could do anything about that ?

Otherwise I might come back in a week or so and create a very minimalistic page about the guy, but I really don't feel like I'm the good one for I don't heard of him before noticing this mistaking link ....

romdam