Ruaridh Mollica, who plays bisexual Tommy Shepherd/Tommy Maximoff in Disney+'s VisionQuest, told Variety it was "such an honor" to portray that in the MCU as a bi actor. His on-screen brother Billy is a gay character played by gay actor Joe Locke, and the first two episodes debuted Tuesday. New episodes stream Tuesdays on Disney+.
Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams is asked in The Assembly trailer whether he ever felt something for co-star Connor Storrie "more than friendship." The CBC show, in which 30 neurodivergent and autistic adults interview celebrities, returns for season two on CBC TV on November 1, with Williams joined by Zach Galifianakis, Jay Baruchel, Marie-Philip Poulin, Ashley Callingbull and Lights.
Heated Rivalry creator and showrunner Jacob Tierney said on Radio Andy that the NHL is not a safe or inclusive space, telling host Andy Cohen the league has "just hired four rapists" and has "a lot of ongoing work to do." The article notes that the NHL fully reinstated five former Hockey Canada players in December 2025 after their acquittal on sexual assault charges, and that as of 2026 the league remains the only major men's sports league in North America without any out gay players in its history.
HBO has confirmed a Girls revival with Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells returning for five new episodes, with production teased to start next summer and no official date announced. The piece lists seven LGBTQ+ actors it suggests adding to the reboot cast, including Anania Michael Izquierdo, Elliot Page, Conrad Ricamora, Samira Wiley, Indya Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and Cynthia Nixon.
Netflix's The Body, a sapphic teen horror series about a ritual gone wrong, is coming to the platform next month. Writer and creator Quinn Shephard, who began writing the show the year she came out, says it satirizes the trauma of growing up queer and repressed. The series features lesbian reality star Gabby Windey in a recurring role as a coach, and almost all episodes have women listed as writers.
Matt Marcus reviews the first three episodes of the Tsukiatte Agetemo Ii Kana live-action drama, an 8-episode, 23-minute adaptation of Tamifull's manga about two college students in a light music club. He credits episode 1 with making Saeko and Miwa's awkwardness palpable, but says episode 3's summer club retreat arc cuts the character Kan entirely, reducing Miwa to an object of Saeko's jealousy, and that sex remains off screen. The series airs in Japan on MBS, TV Kanagawa, Chiba TV, TeleTama, Tochigi TV and Gunma Television, streams via TVer and FOD, and is available overseas on GagaOoLaLa.
Crave has picked up the webseries Slo Pitch for a network TV reboot, with two episodes premiering Friday, Sept. 25 and two episodes dropping each Friday after that. The series stars Jess Salgueiro, Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Emma Hunter and Emily Hampshire, with women's softball legend Ayami Sato as a special guest star, and is based on the 2020 short-form series of the same name created by J Stevens, Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn.
LezWatch.TV has recalculated its show scores so queer characters are weighted by how long they appear on screen relative to a show's run, rather than by raw character counts. Law & Order: SVU dropped from 40 to 31 while Adventure Time rose from 64 to 77. The site also reworked how it tracks seasons, using TVMaze data and flagging incorrect IMDb entries.
LezWatch.TV's redesigned statistics pages show on-screen queer representation peaked at over 1000 characters in 2020 and now sits around 200, with a backlog of over 500 characters still to add. Shows on air peaked earlier, at 546 in 2018, and in 2025 59 shows with queer characters ended while only 20 premiered, down from a peak of 172 new shows in 2019. The site also reports that Bury Your Queers remains the most common harmful trope across 424 shows, against 163 shows where a queer character gets a happy ending, and that 2025's The Mighty Nein debuted with 8 queer characters.