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Is Lip Service anything like Glasgow’s real lesbian life?

25 Apr 2012

Second series of BBC lesbian drama returns

Any fool who saw the first series of Lip Service will be aware that sex, talking about sex and being sexy are a large part of the show. It’s glamorous, glittery and oh so slightly ridiculous. First hitting UK small screens in 2010, the drama returned to…

Glasgow-set Lip Service may have more than just homophobes turning it off

17 Feb 2011

Is new BBC3 drama just The L Word with rain?

A recent poll by the BBC found that one in five people felt ‘uncomfortable’ or ‘very uncomfortable’ with gay people having their stories told on television. A mere 16 years after the ‘Brookside kiss’, such a stat can either be read as slow progress or…