• 'Queer Eye' Fab Five to appear on MSNBC's 'Buchanan and Press' on August 12

  August 11, 2003
  MSNBC has announed that The Fab Five of Bravo's hit “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” series will appear on “Buchanan and Press,” at 6-7 PM. (ET) on Tuesday, August 12

• Boy Meets Boy - Episode 2 summary

  August 11, 2003
  "Ride Me, Cowboy (or The One with the Ho Down)," our episode summary for the second episode of Bravo's new "Boy Meet Boy," authored by Larry Johnson of "Gay Survivor Journal" fame, has been posted. Check it out by clicking HERE

• NBC licenses UK and Scandinavia rights to Bravo's 'Queer Eye For The Straight Guy'

  August 10, 2003
  NBC Enterprises has licensed Bravo and NBC’s summer breakout hit “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” in both the U.K. and Scandinavia. The summertime series, which has quickly become one of the most talked about show in America, has been sold to Flextech’s Living in the U.K. and Scandinavia’s Viasat—both acquiring the U.S. episodes and format rights to produce local versions of the show.

• Boy Meets Boy - Episode 1 summary

  August 10, 2003
  "Secrets and Leis," our episode summary for the premiere episode of Bravo's new "Boy Meet Boy," authored by Larry Johnson of "Gay Survivor Journal" fame, has been posted. Check it out by clicking HERE

• NBC upgrades 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' cross-promotion with Jay Leno

  August 7, 2003
  Reuters reports that NBC has upgraded its previously-announced cross-promotion between the Bravo show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and its The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Under the new schedule, NBC will run a full hour episode of Queer Eye on the night of August 14, not a half-hour special edition. The "Fab Five" will then appear on Jay Leno's show that night -- but as guests. On the next night, August 15, the "Fab Five" will return again to the Tonight Show to do a "make-better" of Jay Leno.

• NBC's Jay Leno to be made 'better' by Bravo's 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' on August 14

  August 4, 2003
  NBC had said that it was considering broadcasting another episode of Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on network TV, and so it will -- with some help from a special guest.

• 'Queer Eye" ratings soar on Bravo; NBC considers more rebroadcasts

  July 31, 2003
  It worked once, so why not try it again? Michael Starr in the NY Post reports that NBC is "definitely considering re-airing" episodes of the Bravo hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in the face of record-breaking ratings for the cable show. The July 29 episode of the show on Bravo (which is owned by NBC) drew 2.8 million viewers, smashing the record for the most-watched show in Bravo history: the 1.6 million who watched the series premiere on July 15. The first episode then drew 6.7 million viewers to NBC when re-aired on the broadcast network on July 24.

• Bravo's new 'Boy Meets Boy' and 'Queer Eye' shows targeting female viewers, not gays

  July 29, 2003
  According to The Hollywood Reporter, despite the fact that two new gay-themed shows headline its summer programming, the Bravo cable network says it is not intentionally trying to target gay viewers. "Does this mean that Bravo is becoming a gay network? Absolutely not," said Bravo president Jeff Gaspin, "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

• Ratings: Special NBC airing of 'Queer Eye For The Straight Guy' draws 6.7 million viewers

  July 25, 2003
  The new hit Bravo series “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” generated strong ratings results in a special Thursday telecast on the NBC network last night, retaining 86 percent of its 18-49 lead-in from television’s #2 comedy among adults 18-49, “Will & Grace.” Over the previous six weeks, NBC has averaged an 83 percent retention in that time period with a combination of “Will & Grace” and “Frasier.”

• Bravo's 'Boy Meets Boy' gay bachelor star: "I felt betrayed"

  July 20, 2003
  When Bravo's upcoming "Boy Meet Boy" was first announced and the premise revealed, we were sure that gay rights groups would have rightfully been up in arms and protesting the staging of a "Bachelor"-like program in which a gay man is looking to select a partner from a group of 15 suitors that, unbeknownst to the eligible bachelor, contains numerous straight men who were paid by the program to pretend to be gay.

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