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New 'Queer Eye' Is A Reboot, Not A Retread

They've dropped "For the Straight Guy" from the title, reflecting the retooled makeover series' updated, and slightly broadened, mission.
L to R: Antoni Porowsky, Tan France, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness, eyeing queerly.

Just over a year ago, Netflix announced that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Bravo network phenomenon of a makeover show that launched in 2003 before fizzling out in 2007, was coming back.

Reaction to this news varied. Some welcomed the idea. Some didn't. And some self-appointed know-it-alls who didn't want to see the show come back went so far as to offer unsolicited advice.

What they were worried about,

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