On the new show Kings, NBC's bizarre-looking, alternate-reality show about modern-day royalty, the Prince, whose life is saved by a lowly commoner, can't inherit his father's kingdom. Because he's a big old gay person.
So says
a spy on the set. See, the show, which will flicker on your TV screen in March for probably only an episode or two, is about the commoner who saves the Prince (
Sebastian Stan, above) in war and is thus granted lots of access by the creepy king (Ian Mcshane from
Deadwood). The king lavishes so much attention on him because here is the strapping young
straight war hero he'd hoped for, not the mincing fellow who goes to gay clubs with his gay boyfriend (played by Michael Arden, who starred in the tremendous Twyla Tharp Broadway disaster
The Times They Are a Changin').
So that's kind of exciting. You know, dudes in uniform kissing other dudes. Let's just hope they're not villainized in the fashion of the shameful gay Prince and h