Sunday, February 22, 2009
Calling Brighton and the South Coast - LGBT TV and radio market to get Fruity!
One of the world’s first original online programming platforms is to be launched later this year, for the LGBT market and the founders are looking for programming ideas from within the Brighton and South Coast LGBT community.www.fruittv.tv, will launch later this year with some big name endorsements.
Fruit TV will provide original and entertaining TV and radio programmes aimed at the global LGBT community and will include a rich variety of appointment to view programming – all exclusively online and all for free.
Director of Commissioning Ashley Byrne said:
“There will be a selection of documentaries and drama biographies, through to arts, lifestyle, comedy, short films, light entertainment shows and other regular features from all around the globe. We are also working on a radio soap aimed at the LGBT world."
Fruit TV is formed through a partnership between British production company Made in Manchester and gay businessman, Iain Scott, one of the partners of Taurus Bar in Manchester’s gay village.
Director of Programme Production Scott Heslop says:
“Fruit TV is about giving LGBT people an opportunity to make lots of noise about the issues that matter to them. It’s about celebrating lifestyles, heritage & culture and providing a voice to those more isolated LGBT people in countries where equality for gay people lags behind.”
Fruit TV’s holding page goes live from today with regular updates and previews.
For more information about Fruit TV go to: www.fruittv.tv
