What to Watch: This Weekend

Are you tired of boring Sundays?  Then you're in luck because this Sunday is the 63rd Annual Tony Awards! So grab all your fabulous friends, pass the bubbly and get ready for Neil Patrick Harris to host this magical evening celebrating the best of Broadway!

Friday, June 5 

10:00 pm Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO (1 hr) NEW This no-holds barred news show is broadcast live, so you never know what to expect. Bill regularly discusses LGBT issues and features gay panelists and commentators, so check it out.

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Saturday, June 6

9:00 pm Groomer Has It, Animal Planet (1 hr) NEW The good, the bad, and the ugly are judged tonight as the contestants take basset hounds through obedience class, then style dogs to look like their owners. Do gay contestants Huber and Bill have this one in the bag?  Watch and see.  Queer Eye’s Jai Rodriguez hosts this campy fave.

10:00 pm The Graham Norton Show, BBC America (1 hr) REPEAT Openly gay talk show host Graham Norton sits down with the fabulously talented United States of Tara star, Toni Collette.  Plus rumored-to-be retired actor and father of two hotties, Kurt Russell stops by.

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Sunday, June 7

 

Fabulous 63rd Annual Tony Awards host Neil Patrick Harris

The fabulous NPH hosts the 63rd Annual Tony Awards

8:00pm Tony Awards, CBS (3 hrs) NEW The fabulous and multitalented Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 63rd annual Tony Awards from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Billy Elliot: The Musical looks to be the fave this year with 15 nominations. So grab a cocktail and be sure to catch all the glitz, glam and show stopping performances of good ole Broadway.

8:00 pm Any Dream Will Do, BBC America (1 hr) SEASON FINALE Contestants compete for the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in a production on London’s West End. One of the judges is openly gay actor/singer John Barrowman, with host Graham Norton. Only two boys remain, which one will be crowned the winner and given the lead role in Joseph?