“It is a surreal honour to adapt the notoriously ground-breaking series by Russell T. Davies,” Dunn told the Hollywood Reporter. “When the show originally aired, the idea of unapologetic queer stories on TV was so provocative that I felt I could only watch Queer as Folk in secret.
But so much has changed in the last 20 years and how wonderful would it be if the next generation didn’t have to watch Queer as Folk alone in their dank basements with the sound muted, but with their family and friends and the volume cranked all the way to the max.”The original Queer as Folk was set in Manchester and followed three friends who lived, worked and socialised around Canal Street.