MTV has acquired format rights to Young Gifted and Brown series The Jaquie Brown Diaries for Logo, its Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Tranny channel, after a communication error led the Americans to believe they were buying a LGB show, not a YGB one. The award-winning comedy will now make its way into 37 million US homes, many of them exquisitely decorated.
Ewa Bigio of Smiley Film Sales confirmed that the deal was for the first series of the show (6 x 30), not for format rights, so Ms Brown and friends will actually appear on US TV, rather than having to sit by while their show is gutted of all appeal, as so often happens when US networks adapt overseas-sourced material.
