'Given the emphasis all streamers, including Paramount+, put on their own ever-lengthening rosters of pricey originals, it might seem surprising that more than half of the most popular programs on Paramount Global’s signature streamer come from the decidedly unsexy world of network TV. 'CBS is responsible for 17 of the top 30 titles on sibling streamer Paramount+,' says Josef Adalian. They survived a tragedy, and they are human beings whose lives were completely turned upside down after this.” These are real people and they’re not victims. “What you’ll see in Queer as Folk is the honest truth of what it is like to go through something like that and how it’s not this saintly victim tragedy story. Our show is completely fictional, but the trajectory of our story is inspired by the realities of what that was like - not just that night, but the aftermath and the way that the community of Orlando rebuilt in the wake of that tragedy,” Dunn told The Hollywood Reporter in a May 11 interview. incarnation also featured a bombing of its Babylon in its final season.) “Pulse is a specific event that targeted the Latinx community in Orlando. The pitch helped Dunn secure the rights to Queer as Folk.
In creating Queer as Folk, Dunn pitched the idea of a shooting at a gay bar to Davies.
The addition of the warning comes after the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
