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Manchester-based LGBT online TV and radio platform reveals plans
By: John Howard
Fruit TV launches next year
Fruit TV launches next year
LGBT TV channel reveals programming
Fruit TV, the exclusively online and internationally-available LGBT channel that goes on-air next year has unveiled some of its schedule highlights.
Launch programmes include the documentary Queer As Folk: Ten Years On, with Russell T Davies talking about the series that made his name before he went on to revive Doctor Who.
Another TV documentary, Aids in America, features survivors of the early years of HIV in the US talking about its impact in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and on radio, My Life With Milk examines the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk with interviews of those closest to him.
Oscar's Books, presented by Thomas Wright, traces what happened to the library of Oscar Wilde after it was sold for a pittance and ended up scattered throughout the world following his downfall, and Rude Britannia is an exploration by playwright and writer Tim Fountain of the weird and wonderful sex life of the 'average' Briton.
Manchester-based Fruit TV is a partnership between production company Made in Manchester (of which Ashley Byrne, Fruit TV's director of commissioning is creative director), former ITV editor Scott Heslop, ex-Granada assistant producer Anthony Beswick, and Iain Scott, one of the partners in Taurus, a bar in the city's gay village.
Earlier this year, Heslop, director of programme production at the channel, said: "Fruit TV is about giving LGBT people an opportunity to make lots of noise about the issues that matter to them," adding, "It's about celebrating lifestyles, heritage and culture and providing a voice to those more isolated LGBT people in countries where equality for gay people lags behind."
Another TV documentary, Aids in America, features survivors of the early years of HIV in the US talking about its impact in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and on radio, My Life With Milk examines the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk with interviews of those closest to him.
Oscar's Books, presented by Thomas Wright, traces what happened to the library of Oscar Wilde after it was sold for a pittance and ended up scattered throughout the world following his downfall, and Rude Britannia is an exploration by playwright and writer Tim Fountain of the weird and wonderful sex life of the 'average' Briton.
Manchester-based Fruit TV is a partnership between production company Made in Manchester (of which Ashley Byrne, Fruit TV's director of commissioning is creative director), former ITV editor Scott Heslop, ex-Granada assistant producer Anthony Beswick, and Iain Scott, one of the partners in Taurus, a bar in the city's gay village.
Earlier this year, Heslop, director of programme production at the channel, said: "Fruit TV is about giving LGBT people an opportunity to make lots of noise about the issues that matter to them," adding, "It's about celebrating lifestyles, heritage and culture and providing a voice to those more isolated LGBT people in countries where equality for gay people lags behind."
