But Gadberry says many of them expressed interest when he spoke to them in September, before taping had begun. He says he’ll send the shows to cable operators in at least seven cities and counties-including New York, Cincinnati, Denver, San Francisco and Orange County-all of whom already have some sort of gay programming.Īs of Wednesday, he hadn’t firmed up any deals with these operators. Future episodes, he says, can follow quickly, now that actors, technicians and equipment are in place. 15-more than enough time to make the show date deadline. He insists that he’ll have the show’s pilot ready to submit to cable stations by Jan. 23, on cable television public-access channels nationwide, but as of Wednesday he couldn’t name a single channel that has contracted to show it. He plans to premiere the program Tuesday, Jan. With less than three weeks left before the soap’s scheduled debut, “Secret Passions” producer David Gadberry still doesn’t have a single episode in the can. Sheldon.īut as Gertrude Stein might have said, is there really a there there? Promises of homosexual bedroom scenes and kissing have appeared in seemingly endless press reports-alongside condemnations by such stridently anti-gay conservatives as Anaheim’s own Rev.
Media including the Associated Press, TV Guide, Daily Variety and three Southland television stations have pounced on the story almost as if Zsa Zsa Gabor had hit again. Religious fundamentalists are railing, Hollywood producers are said to be drooling and reporters nationwide are groveling over “Secret Passions,” a gay-oriented soap opera under production in Orange County.
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