Out on Tuesday
- Director: Phil Woodward
- Producer: Christopher Hird
CGiii Comment
It certainly took itself very seriously indeed...embracing political correctness to the point of extreme pain...
It was groundbreaking...and, extraordinarily dull.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Out on Tuesday was Channel Four’s second attempt at a queer lifestyle series in the 1980s. The first – One in Five – had run for one series in 1983 and, somewhat predictably, had been greeted with outrage by Conservative MPs.
Nonetheless Channel Four persisted and produced a range of queer-themed programmes throughout the decade. In 1989 the station’s managers obviously felt sufficiently confident to give the lifestyle programme another go and so Out of Tuesday was launched. Produced initially by a company named Abseil (in tribute to the lesbians who had abseiled into Parliament to protest Section 28) it aired initially at 11 p.m. on Tuesday nights.
Then it was moved to 9 p.m. for its second series – and its ratings slumped! So it was moved to Wednesday evenings and simply named Out. The ratings improved but for some reason it was dropped after the fourth season. Perhaps it was felt that our needs were now sufficiently catered for in mainstream programming that we no longer needed our own ‘special’ programmes.