PSA for All Queers: We Officially Have Our Own Dating Show on Netflix
Tune in for tea on the new series, host and more.
Earlier this year, Netflix announced that Season 2 of its latest dating show The Ultimatum would have an all-LGBTQ cast and this week — we got more good news.
It’s no secret that dating shows favor the heterosexual experience — as if we don’t deserve tea in the form of chaotic TV relationships, too. Well, according to Netflix, the new season is now a spinoff series. Titled The Ultimatum: Queer Love, the series will follow women and nonbinary couples where one is ready to marry, while the other… not so much. “In just over eight weeks, each couple will either get married, or get out, after they each choose new potential partners in a life-changing opportunity to get a glimpse of two different futures,” reveals the show’s description.
According to Chris Coelen, creator of Love Is Blind and The Ultimatum, “We, along with Netflix, sort of made a decision to create a new franchise where there’s Ultimatum: Marry or Move On and there’s Ultimatum: Queer Love, and felt like it made sense to differentiate the two. There are slight nuances to each of the shows. The shows are very similar in their DNA, but you know, having a different host or for the different versions made sense to us as we talked about going into it.”
Instead of being the token season, we finally have a series of our own. The release date has not yet been shared, but the new series also has a new host you might recognize from Reba or Sweet Magnolias: JoAnna Garcia Swisher.
Stay tuned for more updates on the new series.
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