MultiChoice decided to only add OUTtv for DStv Premium and DStv Compact Plus subscribers in South Africa for a month with the channel that is being kept away from DStv subscribers elsewhere in Africa and with the content rights of the gay-focused programming that was specifically only cleared for the South African market.
OUTtv doesn't come with an age restriction or any overall age blocking and MultiChoice told TVwithThinus that age restrictions will be programme specific.
A look at the OUTtv TV guide indicates that age restrictions of various OUTtv shows and films range from the lowest PG up to the highest of 18SVNL.
OUTtv will broadcast programming ranging from movies, drama, lifestyle, comedy, reality, music and travel shows that appeal to the LGBTQI+ community.
Titles on OUTtv range from general entertainment and lifestyle show like RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Big Freedia Queen of Bounce and Hey Qween! to more provocative fare like Don’t Quit Your Gay Job, a look behind the making of gay pornography in Broke Straight Boys, the drama series Queer as Folk and the controversial British dating game show Naked Attraction in which contestants get naked to try and snag a date.
Titles on OUTtv range from general entertainment and lifestyle show like RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Big Freedia Queen of Bounce and Hey Qween! to more provocative fare like Don’t Quit Your Gay Job, a look behind the making of gay pornography in Broke Straight Boys, the drama series Queer as Folk and the controversial British dating game show Naked Attraction in which contestants get naked to try and snag a date.
Here are some of the OUTtv programming highlights:
Basically The Bachelor but with a gay man, Robert Sepulveda Jr., looking for love in a house with 13 gay men. Cue the drama as Robert - with a porn past - eliminate the men in "black tie" ceremonies after dates, together with a lot of in-fighting inside the house between the potential suitors.
Does it matter if you have an artificial leg? This controversial British dating game show has led to a flood of complaints in the United Kingdom due to the full frontal nudity, but viewers have kept watching nonetheless. Contestants (men and women) looking for love, strip down and reveal their naked bodies hoping to snag a date. Anna Richardson is the host.
In what's known as "gay for pay," straight men perform in gay pornographic films. The series goes behind-the-scenes and looks at the producers and stars of the gay porn site and the "house mom" who looks after the porn stars.
Shadowlands, Friday 5 October 23:00
An anthology style series that explores love between men in separate stories and times - a couple renegotiating a relationship, a narcissist grasping to comprehend it, and star-crossed lovers mourning its loss.
Fit for Fashion, Saturday 6 October 07:00
A reality show hosted by Louise Roe, with fashion photographer Todd Anthony Tyler. The fitness trainers Christine Bullock and Mitch Chilson put contestants through their paces who try to master challenges and learn new skills while training and transforming their bodies at the beautiful and luxurious Tanjong Jara Resort on Malaysia's East Coast.
Golden Gays, Saturday 6 October 10:30
A reality series following outrageous characters in Palm Springs where everyone is gay, gray or both. The parties are legendary, the residents are eccentric and everyone knows a good plastic surgeon. In this unpredictable community there are outrageous and neurotic residents from a single vegan lesbian looking for love, to a burly conservative contractor struggling to open his gay resort.
Noah's Arc, Sunday 7 October 21:30 (13SL)
An American drama series following the lives of four black gay friends living in Los Angeles.
Lip Service, Sunday 7 October 22:00 (16SL)
A British drama series following the lives of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow, Scotland.
Queer as Folk, Tuesday 9 October 23:00 (18SVNL)
A gay young adult drama series (the original British version) that chronicles the lives of Stuart and Vince, as well as the 15-year old Nathan who is in love with Stuart.
