Rebel Prince

Some quick midseason TV notes:

• At long last, new episodes of BBC America’s What Not To Wear start up Tuesday, Mar. 9 at 9 p.m.
• UPN’s CGI-animated comedy Game Over, about the Smashenburns, a family whose day jobs are video game characters, premieres Wednesday, Mar. 10 at 8 p.m.
• Yes, I will check out Playing It Straight on Fox and hope it’s not too much of a train wreck. Which it probably will be. The premiere is Friday, Mar. 12 at 8 p.m. I’ll also take a look at The Help on the WB (Friday, Mar. 5 at 9:30 p.m.), if only for Al Santos. I mean, come on.
• USA is remaking the British series Touching Evil (Friday, Mar. 12). Eh, could be interesting.
• Ioan Gruffud, maybe best known as A&E’s Horatio Hornblower, comes back to the small screen in a legal drama set in the year 2030, Century City on CBS (Tuesday, Mar. 16 at 9 p.m.).

Anything else new I should watch out for? I know it’s not an exciting season, but hey, the TiVo is always ready and willing. By the way, this Saturday night (Mar. 6), Colin Firth hosts Saturday Night Live with musical guest Norah Jones. Thanks to Rajani for the heads up.

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Last night’s rally was cool. The turnout was huge, spilling onto the streets around the HRC building. There was a long roster of speakers (perhaps more than I’d expected), but I thought the most memorable was 13-year-old Jake, a boy with two mothers, whose speech about his family was simple and moving. Proponents of the marriage amendment keep saying how marriage is about family and children. Well, that’s a family right there, just one of hundreds of thousands of gay families that deserve the right of recognition. (By the way, is it just us, or did the rally get no media coverage at all?)

In other news, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams has asked the corporation counsel to weigh in on whether the District should legally recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. Nota bene: the current corporation counsel, Robert Spagnoletti, is gay, with a domestic partner and adopted child. Interesting.

On the Hill yesterday a Senate Judiciary subcommittee held an initial hearing on the amendment and related issues. Transcripts of the testimony and statements are up on the web.

Finally on a nonpolitical note (in this town we all need a break from politics sometime), there will be a Gay Life and Wedding Expo on Sunday, Apr. 4. Sounds like fun.

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