Black and queer in a conservative white community, she’s tasked with taking on a wealthy white crime family with a reputation for instilling fear in their enemies. So it’s very good news, indeed, to learn that she’ll be first on the call sheet for the new television drama “Low Country.” Aduba will star as a lesbian deputy sheriff in South Carolina’s low country. The Emmy Award winner impresses every time she blesses a new project with her talent (we’re still high on her portrayal of Shirley Chisholm on “Mrs.
We’re always up for more from the great Uzo Aduba. No cast yet (“Pose” is ending, though so casting directors, take note, some wonderful actors are available). We’re hopeful that this iteration will take that diversity seriously, because unlike the first wave of LGBT scripted dramas for television - the UK and American “Queer as Folk” included - that were almost entirely centered on white, cisgender characters, we now live with a TV landscape that includes a revived “L Word” and “Pose,” programs that deliver a much more inclusive vision of the queer family.
#What happens in taken 3 update#
The reimagining is from “Little America” creator Stephen Dunn, who’ll set the update among a diverse group of queer friends in New Orleans (the original UK series was set in in Manchester, the US version in Pittsburgh).
After a couple years of rumbling maybes, there’s a new “Queer as Folk” on the way, with an eight-episode, straight-to-series order from NBC’s streaming service Peacock.
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