Start the Countdown: My Life on the D-List's Fourth Season Starts Filming on New Year's Eve

-- Lyle Masaki from AfterElton.com

Amid all the news of shows disappearing prematurely, here's a little something to get excited over — Kathy Griffin announced at the GQ Man of the Year awards that the fourth season of My Life on the D-List will begin filming on New Year's Day and will air in June (if all goes well).

The third season of My Life on the D-List was easily one of the gayest seasons of reality TV — Griffin prepared for a performance on a cruise ship for Rosie O'Donnell's R Family Vacations, hung out with Irish comedian Graham Norton (where they both expressed puzzlement at Jamaican anti-gay slurs) and hosted the Gay Adult Video Awards. The season was meant to have even more gay stories — Griffin's performance for vacationing gay and lesbian families was canceled, tragically, when Griffin's father died and her hope to give a performance to gay inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail was dashed by the Sherriff's department.

(It's too bad that the LA Sheriff turned her down. When Kathy toured the Arizona prison where she performed instead, seeing her meet and talk with the prisoners was an interesting segment. It would have been great to have gotten to see the gay block of the LA County Jail that way — instead we only get to see it through the sensationalistic lens of an MSNBC Lockup documentary.)

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed Griffin finds a way to make the fourth season equally fabulous.

I do have to grumble, however, with Griffin saying that her show doesn't use writers:

 

“As if my show could ever afford writers to begin with. What writers?” she laughed. “It’s somebody with a camcorder following me into the bathroom. That’s what my TV show is.”

 

Hey Kathy, you know the people who decide to create a narrative by putting all the related scenes together so that there's a cohesive story in each episode? They may be credited as "editors" or some kind of producer, but they're writers. They're just not represented by the WGA.

Still, I can't get too annoyed for her simplification as she does make sure to make a public statement supporting the writers:

 

“I think the view people need to realize, too — it’s really not the writers being whiney,” she said. “It’s really these corporations are making so much money from all this Web content and we all see those pop up commercials. So somebody is getting that money, and it is not the writers at this point.”