(Rated R for language, sexual situations and talking dicks)
Dated is a comedy about a gay man of a certain age facing the daunting world of online dating and unexpectedly confronting the legacy of being a survivor of the AIDS pandemic --- during a pandemic.
Dated began life as a monologue and then a short film that screened at festivals around the world. Dated: The Series premiered on OutfestNow in early 2021. It's streaming on YouTube, Outfestnow.com and (soon) Amazon Prime.
Steve Chivers has worked as a writer, actor, producer and director on sitcoms, hour dramas, web series, documentary and reality shows and most recently, podcasts. His six-part podcast about the steroid scandal in sports -- “American Scandal: BALCO” -- was the number two podcast on iTunes. His follow-up, “American Scandal: The Hare Krishna Murders”, chronicles the true story of the gay son of a Baptist preacher who turned a religious cult into an international criminal enterprise.