Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey!

Q: Flying Monkey, this is serious. A fellow AfterElton-er and I were talking about Daniel Craig and his affinity for playing gay roles, and the fact that he had played gay opposite Jason Isaacs in a 1993 Royal National Theatre production of Angels in America. Reportedly there are (really hot) pictures of Jason and Daniel from the production. This has to be the greatest actor pairing in the history of entertainment. Can YOU find these pictures, Monkey? — Linz

Jason Isaacs (left) & Daniel Craig

A: The Monkey tried to find these photos — he really did. He even asked Associate Editor Dennis Ayers to see if he could find the photos (and Dennis can find any photo). But Dennis also came up empty-handed.

So are these “really hot” pictures like the Fountain of Youth, or the fabled Golden City of El Dorado, or the Ryan Phillipe/Jesse Metcalf sex tape? Do they not really exist? Could we search in vain only to eventually be driven insane by the tantalizing possibility of their existence?

Who cares? These photos sound great!

But since the Monkey came up empty-handed, he must turn to you, his readers. Have you seen these photos? Can you track them down? Sure, you can! Hell, if you’ve got time enough at work to come back to AfterElton.com all day, you’ve got the time to find these damn photos.

Fly, my pretties, fly! And then tell us where we can see them!

Q: There's been some discussion about Agent Charlie Francis' remark on Fringe in the third episode, “He told me he loved me too,” which he said to the main character of the show, Olivia Dunham, in regard to her comment that her ex-lover John Scott had told her he loved her. Has there been any information about whether it was meant platonically or whether Scott was really having affairs with both of them? — Lorill

Kirk Acevedo (left) plays Agent Charlie Francis on Fringe;
Mark Valley plays John Scott

A: The Monkey called both the network and the producers of the show, but they refused to comment on upcoming storylines. “Oh, sure!” the Monkey is thinking. “You’ll hand out spoilers like candy on Halloween when it suits your purposes, but ask a simple gay-related question, and suddenly your lips are sealed tighter than a pickle jar in deep space.”

For what it’s worth, Fringe creator J.J. Abrams and his co-producing cohorts have a mixed-to-poor record on gay-inclusion. It’s been pretty weak on Lost and Alias, and there are no gays-in-space in the upcoming Star Trek movie franchise reboot.

From what the Monkey could glean, don't get your hopes up. That said, the idea that double agent John Scott might be bisexual is an intriguing possibility. The Monkey can confirm that the character will continue to be a regular on the show (despite the fact that he, you know, died in the first episode). Better still, it would mean that television would finally have a reoccurring bisexual character (other than the animated alien on American Dad). Granted, he’d be the latest in an endless string of bisexual villains, but hey, you can’t have everything.

Q: Ever since last year, I've noticed that the show Ugly Betty has been losing audience. I've also noticed that last year ABC started streaming most of their shows online the day after they aired live. Could this be a reason why viewership has been dropping? Does ABC take their online viewers into account before making a decision to cancel a show? – Jader, Charlotte, NC

A: It's fascinating, isn't it, how the way we watch television is transforming before our eyes? Currently, more than ten percent of viewers don't watch Ugly Betty "live," but rather, they watch it online or on their DVR playback. (Incidentally, who are these people who still watch TV the old-fashioned way, sitting through a barrage of commercials every seven minutes?! At this point, the Monkey doesn't know anyone who still does that!)

Anyway, the networks refer to the online watchers you're talking about as "additive" viewers — sort of "extra credit" viewers who might not be watching shows like Ugly Betty anyway. The Monkey isn't so sure he agrees — it seems logical that online viewers must be cannibalizing traditional viewership somehow. But the networks are definitely aware of these viewers. This new content delivery method is still so new (and, frankly, so small) that the networks haven't yet settled on the definitive way to quantify the viewers and derive revenue from them — either by advertising or pay-per-download or both. But the networks are experimenting, and as the numbers grow, the networks will figure it out. They understand that this is the future of television.

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