'Queer As Folk' Creator Announces New AIDS Focused Drama 'The Boys'

Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies is back with another gay-focused drama called The Boys, a five-part series for Channel 4 that follows boys Ritchie, Roscoe, and Colin as they move to London in the early '1980s as the AIDS epidemic begins to unravel. 

As per the official show synopsis for Channel 4, the series sees "the young trio, strangers at first, leave home at 18 and head off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy. However, they're walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores." "Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus starts as a rumor, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight," the synopsis continued. "It's the story of their friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves them and helps them, and galvanizes them in the battles to come."

It will be written by Davies and produced by RED Production Company. Production for the series begins in 2019. "I lived through those times, and it's taken me decades to build up to this. And as time marches on, there's a danger the story will be forgotten. So it's an honour to write this for the ones we lost, and the ones who survived," Davies explained of the project. 

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