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RuPaul sitcom 'AJ and the Queen' to premiere in January

A new sitcom starring RuPaul has been in the works for some time, and now fans can known when to expect its debut on Netflix.

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AJ and the Queen stars Ru as a “down-on-her-luck drag queen traveling across America in a van with a tough-talking 11-year-old stowaway”, and is set to hit our screens in January.

Co-created by RuPaul and Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King, the prolific drag queen says the sitcom is the most thing she’s ever done.

“Usually in acting roles, I play the gay best friend or the neighbour. This is a fully rounded human being with all of the emotions,” Ru told EW about the role.

“We shot that for five months. We were in the writers room for two months. I had to memorise pages and pages of dialogue. Some days I had 11 pages of dialogue to memorise, and then the next day it would be eight pages. It was a challenge, but I’m so proud of it.”

RuPaul is also set to host a limited-run day time talk show in the US this year. The self-titled series will premiere next month.

OIP Staff


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