{"id":1600,"date":"2015-01-18T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2015-01-18T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T16:09:07","slug":"ellen-degeneres-producing-new-lesbian-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1600","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres producing new lesbian comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ellen DeGeneres will act as executive producer for a new NBC comedy based around a lesbian starting family. The show will be called &#8220;One Big Happy&#8221; and will star?<em>24?<\/em>actress Elisha Cuthbert as Liz, a single woman who decides to have a baby with her best friend. DeGeneres rejected the idea that the show would be a typical &#8220;lesbian comedy;&#8221; instead, she said (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/01\/17\/ellen-degeneres-making-new-lesbian-comedy-but-dont-call-it-a-lesbian-comedy\/\">PinkNews<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?It just happens to be a very funny show. It happens to have a lesbian character in it.<\/p>\n<p>?It?s not like I formed a production company and said, ?Bring me all your lesbian scripts.?<\/p>\n<p>?I?m not just going to be a lesbian machine that just turns out stuff. All I wanted to do was put out really funny material [that?s] smart and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>?If this is thought-provoking and helps people open their minds a little bit and see a multiracial couple, to see a lesbian character and to see a guy who is her best friend that has a relationship, that?s a whole other story.<\/p>\n<p>?They?re just going to be people that you love and watch and don?t think twice about any of it being weird.<\/p>\n<p>?It?s just friendship or family or whatever that is. I think friendship is obvious, but family is not so obvious. Family changes all the time.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch the trailer below:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRhch_7pQm4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Ellen DeGeneres will act as executive producer for a new NBC comedy based around a lesbian starting family. The show will be called &#8220;One Big Happy&#8221; and will star?24?actress Elisha Cuthbert as Liz, a single woman who decides to have a baby with her best friend. DeGeneres rejected the idea that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}