Outland Series Trailer | Premieres Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 9:30pm | ABC1

http://abc.net.au/tv/outland/ Outland is a six-part comedy series about a gay science fiction fan club and the lives, loves and never-ending dramas of its five members. Starring Christine Anu, Ben Gerrard, Paul Ireland, Adam Richard and Toby Truslove and created by John Richards and Adam Richard. facebook.com/outlandtv

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• outland
• abc
• abc1
• comedy
• gay
• science fiction
• toby truslove
• adam richard
• john richards
• christine anu
• ben gerrard
• paul ireland

[wix99]

The ABC budget wasn't big enough for both a gay drama and a sci-fi series so it came up with this!

[regemo]

Wow Please Give this a SECOND season. It's too good!

[Drhoz]

@phaedri Well, I'd swear I've met half these people at the Sydney Dr Who meets, and the rest in fandom here in Perth, so I'd say, yes, the writers *definitely* know fans :)

[sweetcatatoniauk]

@jonatanblack01 Did you not read anything I typed previously? I said in my last reply that I never have and never would imply that. Either you're trying to twist what I'm saying to create more of an argument that you're struggling to win or you're just thick. So which one is it?

[jonatanblack01]

@sweetcatatoniauk just as u find it insulting that non camp men are putting it on, i find it equally insulting u think camp men ARE. the was the point all along...

[book4yam]

This is the most unfunny pile of shit i have ever seen in my whole goddamn life !!! Pathetic beyond compare.

[molkomolkomolkomolko]

is this the first series ABC has done with mainly queer characters?

[sweetcatatoniauk]

@theoutlandinstitute Only one is camp? Are you sure about that? lol, I guess campness must be subjective then. They also seem extremely cliched and one dimensional characters to me, but I suppose that happens in sitcoms, and I'm only judging from a trailer.

[theoutlandinstitute]

@sweetcatatoniauk That's the point of this show - five queer characters, one of which is camp. The other four aren't - hooray! You got what you wanted! We're all happy now, yeah?

[sweetcatatoniauk]

@jonatanblack01 I do not have an obsession with not being camp, or ever tried to fit in with "hetereonormative ideals" it is just the way I am - apparently you can't seem to just accept that is the way some people naturally are, making you the one who has a problem. I wouldn't suggest camp men put being camp on, and I find it insulting you would suggest men who are not camp are putting it on.

[sweetcatatoniauk]

@jonatanblack01 Woah woah woah, I didn't say I had a problem with camp men being on TV... what I do have a problem with is the representation of gay men on TV as nearly always being camp, it would be refreshing to see a gay character where them being gay is merely a sidenote and not something that totally defines them.

[jonatanblack01]

@sweetcatatoniauk so what? you do realize don't you that your obsession with not being camp is just as homophobic as a straight person who doesn't like gay ppl period. just as there are straight girls that are tomboys, there are gay men who are camp and not camp. why do you have a problem with a depiction of it on tv? stop trying to fit into heteronormative ideals and just know there r different types of ppl out there. who r they hurting?!?!! jesus.

[Daringa]

@rossisdead "oh, oh even better!! Make them all gay!!!"

[rossisdead]

"Hmm.. we need more diversity than just 4 white guys. Quick! Add a black woman in a wheel chair!"

[fabulousadamrichard]

@jonatanblack01 stop it! i'm blushing!

[TheDivineMrsO]

I cannot wait, oh Fabulous one!

[SeantheBlogonaut]

@phaedri I don't know, I recognise several people from my Uni science fiction/rpg club :)

[jonatanblack01]

@Lochsley its not really stereotypical. usually any depiction you see of a gay guy is some white buff abercrombie type who is shallow and only into fashion. this is hardly that

[jonatanblack01]

@fabulousadamrichard I LOVE YOU ADAM!!!!!

[cm5783]

I like, but then I'm not gay ;p.

[fabulousadamrichard]

well, due to overwhelming demand from youtube commenters, we've decided to pull outland from the abc1 schedule*. you'll have to be satisfied with all the other nuanced gay characters on australian tv (ie: that kid from neighbours on channel 11) *as if

[phaedri]

Wow. Do the people writing this shit even know any fans? I'm guessing not. Easier to laugh AT the geeks than understand them.