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Queer as Folk U.S. - Season filmography

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Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 1 2000-2001. '*'The U.S. Pilot consisted of Episodes 101 and 102 combined into a single episode (90 minutes). '**'The Canadian Pilot consisted of Episodes 101, 102 and 103 combined into a TV movie (150 minutes including commercials). NOTE: After their original broadcasts, the Pilots were re-edited into individual episodes (101, 102 and 103). Episode 102 was also lengthened by two scenes to expand its original run time within the Pilots. This expanded version was broadcast ...

Queer as Folk U.S.: Encyclopedia II - Queer as Folk U.S. - Season filmography

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season filmography

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 1 2000-2001

'*'The U.S. Pilot consisted of Episodes 101 and 102 combined into a single episode (90 minutes). '**'The Canadian Pilot consisted of Episodes 101, 102 and 103 combined into a TV movie (150 minutes including commercials).

NOTE: After their original broadcasts, the Pilots were re-edited into individual episodes (101, 102 and 103). Episode 102 was also lengthened by two scenes to expand its original run time within the Pilots. This expanded version was broadcast on both Showtime and Showcase during reruns of the first season but was not included on the First Season DVD package (the U.S. Pilot was used).

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 2 2002

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 3 2003

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 4 2004

Queer as Folk U.S. - Season 5 2005

This Showtime original drama was aired in the U.S. at 10pm ET/PT on Sunday nights. It was broadcast in Canada on Showcase on Mondays at 10pm ET/PT where it was labelled a Showcase Original.

It was produced by CowLip Productions, Tony Jonas Productions and Temple Street Productions in association with Channel 4 Television (the co-owner of the original UK series) and Showcase Television. Warner Bros. Television holds the international distribution rights to the series outside the US and Canada.

All five seasons were filmed in wide-screen HDTV however only seasons 4 and 5 were regularly broadcast in HDTV in both the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S., Showtime did run Seasons 1, 2 and 3 in HDTV on Tuesday nights as a special repeat of an episode's full-screen broadcast the previous Sunday. These HDTV broadcasts from the first three seasons were not broadcast by Showcase in Canada. The episodes that appear in the commercially released DVD packages were taken from the HDTV versions.

Keeping up with the technology, Queer as Folk's Season 5 was one of the first series to be recorded using the relatively new digital video process rather than being made exclusively on film. The raw digital video was combined with some scenes that were filmed into a finished episode and then color corrected using a computer process to make the entire episode appear to be filmed.

Throughout all five seasons, the series was filmed primarily at Dufferin Gate Studios in Etobicoke, Ontario (a southwestern borough of Toronto).

Many of Season 3's non-location scenes of Babylon, Woody's and Liberty Diner were filmed at Greystone Studios in Mississauga (the city adjacent to Toronto's western border).

These same scenes for seasons 4 and 5 were filmed at the now-former Dufferin Gate Studios "B Studio" in Mississauga about 10-15 minutes from Dufferin Gate's home studio in Etobicoke. (This studio is now used by Shaftesbury Films as the home base for a Canadian series called ReGenesis).