Logo bags Banana, Cucumber

Viacom’s Logo TV in the US has partnered with BBC Worldwide (BBCWW) North America and the UK’s Channel 4 (C4) to coproduce two forthcoming dramas about 21st century gay life from Queer As Folk scribe Russell T Davies.

Cucumber (8×60′) and Banana (8×30′) see Davies return to C4 15 years after penning its hit drama Queer As Folk, which followed three gay men living in Manchester.

Both dramas, produced by Red Production Company, will now also premiere on US cablenet Logo TV in early 2015. They were recently picked up by SVT in Sweden, as revealed by C21.

Cucumber, which will air on C4 in January, follows a 46-year-old gay man whose life is changed when a botched marriage proposal on a date brings an end to his 10-year relationship. Having moved out of the suburban home he shares with his partner, he is forced to live in a Manchester squat with a group of younger gay men.

Banana will feature stories from younger characters in Cucumber and will air on youth-skewing E4. The show was originally developed by BBCWW Productions and BBCWW distributes the drama internationally.

Caroline Stone, VP of drama and children’s scripted sales and coproductions at BBCWW North America, brokered the deal with Logo which targets the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.