| Logo has announced it's plans to enter the world of Reality Dating after green lighting a new show called Finding Prince Charming. It's a spin on the eternal classic ABC hit The Bachelor and it's spin off The Bachelorette. 13 lucky gays will be picked to find their Prince Charming. They will all have washboard abs, $100 haircuts, and at least one pair of Gucci loafers at home. |  |
Logo has attempted to make mainstream programming gay before. See the Throwback Thursday on The A-List New York (read here) that was billed as “the housewives with balls”. The most successful original programming they've managed to maintain is their trademark RuPaul's Drag Race. The only reason anyone truly subscribes.
   | This isn't the first time there's been a gay dating show. Does anyone remember Bravo's Boy Meets Boy? It was six glorious episodes of gay and straight men trying to win the affection of their suitor. The gays for true love and the straights for $25,000. It was all perfectly innocuous if slightly off putting. At the moment the market is flooded with dating shows. Fox has Coupled that has a nice mix of representation, compared to the white washing of The Bachelor. VH1 has Dating Naked. Yikes. TLC is airing a new show called Love At First Kiss. The contestants walk in without a word and try to see if there's chemistry. It's all very straight forward and heterosexuals being weird. And, I'm sure there's some I've missed. |
It will be interesting to see what Logo does to make Finding Prince Charming stand out. Will the gays fall in love with their other housemates? I would. Is there going to be diversity? As great as pool parties and thongs are I don't need 13 men in flannel vying for a man with similar taste in fashion and a jock body.
  | We don't need the gay Bachelor on Logo. I want a cast that reflects the diversity of RuPaul's Drag Race. Undoubtedly season one will feature a corporate white gay that hits the gym before he goes in to work at eight. Logo will be playing for demographics and certainly the decision to cast Lance Bass as the host plays into that. He's everyone's favorite gay boy band member. And we were all disappointed when it wasn't Justin Timberlake instead. I've never really warmed up to him, but maybe Finding Prince Charming will be what I need to turn that around. |
I'm holding out hope that we'll have a celebrity bachelor. Steve Grand would certainly play into the trademark white gay look and who doesn't love an openly gay country singer. They could always pull from past reality stars. Reichen Lehmkuhl would be perfect. He was on The A-List New York, The Amazing Race, AND he dated Lance Bass. Talk about drama.
 Steve Grand |  Reichen Lehmkuhl |
The show is expected to air at some point this Fall with eight episodes.
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