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Style-challenged heterosexuals aren't the only beneficiaries of Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Plenty of New York City merchants are reaping the benefits too. Desiron, a downtown home-furnishings store, at right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed...
...seems like only yesterday that Will and Grace was called daring. Bravo's reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in which gay style specialists make over grooming-challenged straight men, is shaping up as the surprise hit of the summer. Picked up by NBC, which aired a half-hour rerun last Thursday (after Will and Grace, naturally), the show is the latest highlight in what has turned out to be a grand old, gay old summer. --By Harriet Barovick...
Television BRAVO Along with Queer Eye, left, the network will push the envelope with Boy Meets Boy, a dating reality show with a twist: a gay bachelor looks for a mate, not knowing which of the candidates are straight...
...catcher's mitts, TLC doubled What Not into a bloated, tedious hour, and hosts Wayne Scot Lukas and Stacy London deliver showy put-downs ("She looks hip-py, not hippie!") and lack their British forebears' acuity. If there's a real candidate for the American What Not, it's Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which makes its debut July 15 at 10 p.m. E.T. It is also shameless, but in a more original, less creepy way. In each episode, a heterosexual man is schooled in fashion, design, culture, grooming and fine dining by five gay guys...
...Bravo said that the cultural show was only the beginning. “This may be the first time [Presencia Latina] has happened, but it’s definitely not the last,” Bravo said, adding that Presencia Latina will be back for a second run next year...