L-Word.com News Stories

April 11, 2013

Hello L-word.com Members and Visitors!

L-word.com has been online for a looong time. We were actually online before the show even began!  The show has been off the air now since March 8, 2009 – 4 years ago. It’s very hard to believe, yet we continue to stay online with a very large following because of our amazing fanfic writers and readers.

For some time, we’ve been wanting to “freshen up” L-word.com. The freshening, however, would not be as “simple” as updating the look. We also need to completely switch the technology the site is built on. The fanfic archive was built a long time ago. In fact, have a look at our Site History - a reflection of how we came to be.

In addition to giving the site a new look and new technology, we’re also going to spread our wings and welcome additional fandoms to the site. All lesbian themed TV shows, web series, and movies will be welcomed and invited at L-word.com.

How will we do this? First, the L word fanfic archive will be separate from the “Femslash” archive. We will be moving the stories to the new software which you can see in use at www.Fanfic.me. This software has far more features than the old software. And the L word stories will be in their own archive.

The Femslash archive will be home to all the other fandoms. We’ll be expanding our news section and moving our forum over to new software, too.

L-word.com is not part of any big gay media group. We are one publisher (Jacky) and one techno-dude (Chad). YOUR feedback is critical to us. In fact, we don’t even know what the new “look” is going to be yet. We’re counting on feedback from all of you to help guide us as to where this is all going – and how it’s going to look.

You’ll see big changes coming to the forum immediately. We’ll be deleting some ancient forums and threads. We’ve also opened a new discussion forum to talk about the changes. We’ll be giving you previews there and asking for your input.

Please offer your support, constructive criticism, and suggestions. This site has been home to many woman for many years, and we want it to be the most comfortable, easy to use, secure site it can be. Just last summer, I attended the wedding of two wonderful women I met on this site. I know of at least 4 marriages that have come from women meeting on L-word.com! Let’s keep the site thriving – you never know who you’re going to meet around here.

Thank you all for all your support the past 9+ years. May we have 90 more!

Jacky

FINALLY, we can legally watch the wonderful British show, LIP SERVICE legally and in high def – on Netflix streaming.

If you’re not familiar with the show, it’s been aired on BBC for two (short) seasons. It focuses on a love triangle between the “hot cop” Sam, her girlfriend Cat, and Cat’s sweetheart from school, Frankie. It’s a terrific show – well written, acted, and filmed. It has aired on BBC in the UK. Check it out and join us at www.LipServiceFans.com!

By LanaRus

Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, made an announcement during the upfronts in New York regarding the new direction of the network, “We’ve taken a few first steps toward a turnaround over this past season and now we’re seeing a real opportunity to accelerate that process. We’ve got a lineup of new shows that will really get people to sit up and take notice. And with the Olympics coming this summer and two nights of The Voice in the fall, we’ve also got the tools we need to give our shows the kind of launch they deserve.”

The 2012-2013 Fall Schedule: NBC (New programs in UPPER CASE; all times ET)

MONDAY

8-10 p.m. – “The Voice”

10-11 p.m. – “REVOLUTION”

One of NBC’s reality series The Voice is moving to a fall schedule after being on midseason schedule. Musical drama Smash will stay on the midseason schedule for its second season. Also on Monday schedule is a new drama series Revolution.

“Revolution” — 15 years ago electricity suddenly stopped working and everyone was thrust back into the dark ages. A young woman’s life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who had something to do with the blackout. This brutal encounter sets her and two unlikely companions off on a daring coming-of-age journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future. The show is brought to you by director Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”), J.J. Abrams (“Lost”) and Eric Kripke (“Supernatural”) and stars Billy Burke (“The Twilight Saga”), Tracy Spiridakos (“Being Human”), Anna Lise Phillips (“Terra Nova”), Zak Orth (“Romeo + Juliet“), Graham Rogers (“Memphis Beat”), J.D. Pardo (“A Cinderella Story”), Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”), David Lyons (“The Cape”), Maria Howell (“The Blind Side”), Tim Guinee (“Iron Man”) and Andrea Roth (“Rescue Me”).

By LanaRus

If you live in the UK and you have BBC3 channel then you have no excuse but to watch the second season of “Lip Service” that is coming up this Friday, April 20.

When “The L Word” ended I never thought that anything could ever replace it. And then came “Lip Service”. I wanted to give that show a chance but was totally prepared to compare the storylines and the characters to “The L Word.”

Here’s the truth. There are some similarities, especially in the character of Frankie but, like Heather Peace said in her interview to l-word at L8: “As far as comparison between Frankie and Shane, I feel sorry for Ruta (Gedmintas) because I’m a gay woman and I see type of Shane and Frankie in any bar I go to. It’s not that we were trying to create a Shane character. There’s just that kind of gay girl out there and Ruta did an amazing job with Frankie.”

Season one was very refreshing and, though there were only six episodes, the storylines felt fully developed and kept us entertained and interested until the end. Judging from interviews and previews, the second season will be full of surprises and will introduce a few new characters.

BBC3 just recently posted a little spoiler scene of Frankie and Cat seeing each other again. “After a loved up month in South America, Cat and Sam arrive back in Glasgow. Having run away from her affair with Frankie, how will Cat deal with seeing her again. Tess has it all – new job, pad and girlfriend, but her first day at work and the arrival of a new flatmate throws up some surprises.”

So, if you are in the UK, tune in to BBC3. If you are anywhere else, check www.lipservicefans.com for updates, spoilers and hopefully, complete episodes.

Kate Moennig will be joining the cast of RAY DONOVAN, a new detective series coming to Showtime, starring Liev Schreiber. Moennig will join the pilot in the role of Lena, the titular sleuth’s edgy and intense “second in command.”

Promising “a novelistic look at contemporary Los Angeles,” RAY DONOVAN stars Schreiber as a professional trouble-shooter who is regularly called on to solve the complicated, confidential and controversial problems of L.A.’s elite.

Other announced cast members for the pilot include Jon Voight as Ray’s father Mickey Donovan, Pa

ula Malcomson as Ray’s wife Abby, Elliott Gould in the recurring role of Ray’s mentor and confidante, Dash Mihok and Marsan as Ray’s brothers, and Pooch Hall (The Game) as Daryll, a boxer in training.