![]() ![]() At the time, PBS said publicly it was a financial issue. Despite good ratings, PBS balked at funding a sequel, caving in, Maupin felt, to pressure from right-wing interest groups. In 1993, the first “Tales” miniseries was broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4, then was shown on PBS the following year. This is the third time Maupin’s “Tales,” which have also filled six novels, have been brought to television (the four-hour miniseries debuts Sunday at 10 p.m. ![]() Those stories were a watershed for Maupin’s career and for the depiction of gay life in contemporary literature, as the writer turned a Victorian boardinghouse in the city into a tableau of San Francisco life in the ‘70s and ‘80s, featuring a melting pot of characters, gay and straight, sex-changed and not, from the socially conservative Mary Ann Singleton to the ultraliberal earth mother (and former man) Anna Madrigal. Last July, Armistead Maupin was holed up in a sound stage on the outskirts of Montreal, signing copies of his forthcoming novel “The Night Listener.” He was relaxed and in his element, presiding over the production of “Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the City,” adapted from stories Maupin began weaving in 1976 as serialized tales of gay life published in the San Francisco Chronicle. ![]()
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