Queer as Folk (U.S.)
Now Approaching... The Line
TV Flash files “Now Approaching... The Line” as hour 5 of 83 in the TV Flash guide — Queer as Folk (U.S.) (2000–2005) on Showtime, season 1, episode 5, aired 2001-01-07, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E05: listed hour 5 of 83 in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide, hour 5 of 22 in season 1. It aired 2001-01-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Ted's Not Dead” (S01E04). Next is “The Art of Desperation” (S01E06).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Now Approaching... The Line sit in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide?
S01E05 is listed hour 5 of 83 — hour 5 of 22 in season 1, season 1 episode 5.
When did Queer as Folk (U.S.) S01E05 air?
Now Approaching... The Line aired 2001-01-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the U.K. Queer as Folk first?
Helpful, not required. The Showtime series Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic with its own five-season life.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Showtime Americanized Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic: club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn't air. Queer as Folk is early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper — still a landmark whenever LGBTQ series get a history lesson.
The first useful permission is volume: friends and lovers in a Pittsburgh gay community dealing with sex, politics, parenting, and the club scene — unapologetic for its time on U.S. television. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's Showtime series (2000–2005) Americanized Russell T Davies's U.K. dare into a multi-season community epic. Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell, and Michelle Clunie hold a circle that basic cable still would not have aired. Club nights, activism, explicit firsts as…
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- Gale Harold as Brian Kinney
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- Hal Sparks as Michael Novotny
Hal Sparks played Michael Novotny on Queer as Folk (U.S.) — Showtime's Pittsburgh community epic, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper. TV Flash…
- Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor
Randy Harrison played Justin Taylor on Queer as Folk (U.S.), Showtime’s 2000s Pittsburgh community epic — club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still wouldn’t air. Russell T Davies’s dare Americanized into identity television…
- Peter Paige as Emmett Honeycutt
Peter Paige played Emmett Honeycutt on Queer as Folk (U.S.), Showtime’s 2000s Americanization of Russell T Davies’s dare — Pittsburgh community epic of club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn’t air. Identity…
- Scott Lowell as Ted Schmidt
Scott Lowell's Ted Schmidt kept Queer as Folk (U.S.) looking like Pittsburgh community epic instead of a whisper — Showtime Americanizing Russell T Davies's dare, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still wouldn't air.…
- Michelle Clunie as Melanie Marcus
Michelle Clunie’s Melanie Marcus walked Queer as Folk’s Pittsburgh like Showtime would not whisper — early-2000s identity television, club nights, activism, parenting, sex basic cable still would not air. Russell T Davies’s dare,…