Hi ThomasG... an answer to programming
RE: Programming? There wasn't anything to work with when I got there. The VAULT of TAPES of existing acquired programming were expiring or were crap. There were little to no movies to run and those we had had licensing agreements that were lapsing. I had to do what I had to do to keep the schedule full -- and it was like being "MacGuyver" in dealing with what little available programming there was. Dan M and
Hank worked miricles with scheduling and adding whatever we could to keep the schedule filled - including accessing public domain movies and shorts.
I had plans for additional new programs that never had the chance to start or roll out. NEWS developed the Steve Oldfield Entertainment show (which aired twice - by the way, a nice guy and a hard worker!) -- we were readying other special shows that Honey / Chrisanne and crew taped at the Dinah Shore Weekend and also an hour-long documentary I personally shot in Syracuse on the Miss Gay Syracuse event there, and we also had readied the "repremier" of the 1960's Judy Garland show.
Then there was Honey's return to Daytime talk with "GET REAL with HONEY."
I also wanted to create a prime time. I looked to do a Friday night movie series called BURNT POPCORN (really bad movies hosted by gay comedians), for Sunday nights my plan was to incorporate the HAMMER and NAILS show and create a night for Lesbian oriented programming only -- something the previous people at Q seemed to have "amazingly" and SEVERELY OVERLOOKED, Jinx Titanic was assembling a weekly "alternative lifestyle hour show" for the Bear and S/M crowd, something the previous people at Q seemed to have "amazingly" and SEVERELY OVERLOOKED, I planned a "ON THE DL" night where documentary specials discussing the DL lifestyle would air and the evening talk shows preceeding this would promote it by doing DL related topics. I also planned doing a Q PEOPLE OF COLOR night where Latino / Latina and Afro American Gay issues and targeted programming would fill a night of Prime Time -- again, something the previous people at Q seemed to have "amazingly" and SEVERELY OVERLOOKED, and I also had a SAT night Variety / Talk show in development. I even looked at -- and seriously considered -- running the Canadian Gay Male Naked News for a late late night block. (I was turned on to that concept by Scott Dill - the man who was the true genius of QTN News.) Much credit needs to go to him and the many good things he did at Q.
If only Frank Olsen and crew had left Q "stable" and with operational cash -- that is what you, the viewers, would have been seeing hit the QTN airwaves on my watch. Carol and Lloyd were behind every effort I wanted to achieve with programming. We just didn't have the available cash flow to do it, but we tried a number of ways to get some of it done --and we almost did it.
So if you see a rerun or the Three Stooges? Think of THE OTHER OTHER FRANK, not this one.
Hope that answers some of your questions.
Frank Hagan
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