Erased Queerness TV Shows (
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Most commonly seen in comedies, erasure is when a character’s queerness ceases to be a part of them, as if it never happened. See also “bisexual in college”, “this one time, at band camp…”, or the weird retcon that happened in Roseanne.

A Very Polish Practice

Even weirder than the original. And worse.

Network:
Airdates: 1992

All Saints

Following the professional and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.

Network:
Airdates: 1998 - 2009

Anger Management

Ex-baseball-player Charlie is an anger-management therapist with small-group sessions at home. He has an OCD teen daughter, an ex-wife, and a sex buddy/therapist.

Network:
Airdates: 2012 - 2014

Attachments

The lives and loves of young professionals working for an internet start-up.

Network:
Airdates: 2000 - 2002

Backstrom

The Portland Police Bureau’s Elite Special Crimes Unit is led an alcoholic and smoker who is in failing health.

Network:
Airdates: 2015

Blue Mountain State

Three incoming freshmen attending Midwestern college football powerhouse Blue Mountain State must quickly adapt to college life and juggle football, girls, classes and nonstop hazing.

Network:
Airdates: 2010 - 2011

Bones

Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and cocky F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders often by examining bones.

Network:
Airdates: 2005 - 2017

Casual

A comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter.

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2018

Degrassi: Next Class

The ongoing dramas at Degrassi High School in Canada.

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2017

Dirt

Getting the dirt on people was never so annoying and boring.

Network:
Airdates: 2007 - 2008

Empire

Who will own the hip-hop empire?

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2020

Footballers’ Wives

Drama focusing on the players at Earls Park Football Club as well as the lives of their wives and girlfriends.

Network:
Airdates: 2002 - 2006