World of Wonder

World of Wonder World of Wonder also manages the global rights for all international versions of RuPaul’s Drag Race and consults on Drag Race Canada (BBC Three).

World of Wonder is the pioneering international entertainment creator of groundbreaking Emmy Award-winning feature and television programming, films, and unparalleled documentaries and series that give a voice to outsiders and marginalized communities. The world’s foremost LGBTQ+ and drag entertainment brand, World of Wonder is the multi-award-winning LA based media company that has been bringing

the best q***r talent, stories and counterculture to mainstream audiences for almost two decades. Founded in the UK in 1991 by executive producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, World of Wonder produced pioneering and headline-grabbing programmes such as The Adam and Joe Show (CH4), Power Le****ns (Sky One) and Housebusters (CH5). Expanding state-side in 1994, the team went on to produce award-winning factual entertainment, reality television and documentary content to critical and commercial success; as well as launching a specialist SVoD service and producing popular live conventions, podcasts and merchandising. Television highlights include: Emmy® Award winning RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1/Logo), RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars (VH1), RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC3), Million Dollar Listing LA & NY (Bravo), Dancing Queen (Netflix), Werq the World (WOW Presents Plus) and Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric (National Geographic). Nine of World of Wonder’s documentary films have premiered at the Sundance Film festival including Becoming Chaz, Party Monster and Whirlybird - which took home 2020's Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features. Other award-winning films and documentaries include, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Monica in Black and White, and Emmy Award-winning documentaries, The Last Beekeeper and Out of Iraq (all currently available to watch on WOW Presents Plus). Expanding its digital footprint, World of Wonder launched its specialist subscription on demand (SVoD) service, WOW Presents Plus. Landing in the UK in 2017, the SVoD is also available in America and 160 other countries and features World of Wonder content; including various titles across the Drag Race brand, digital series such as UNHhhh and Morning T&T and many of its documentary and film content. World of Wonder also produces RuPaul's DragCon, the world’s largest drag culture convention. Welcoming more than 100,000 attendees across LA and NYC in 2019 (with Vegas scheduled for January 2021), the company expanded internationally in 2020 with RuPaul’s DragCon UK taking place in London to a sold-out crowd. World of Wonder also co-produces the official RuPaul's Drag Race: Werq the World Tour, and the official RuPaul's Drag Race UK Tour. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored The World According to Wonder, celebrating decades of production and have been honoured with the IDA Pioneer Award, named on Variety's Reality Leaders List, and chosen for the OUT100 list for their trailblazing work in the LGBTQ+ community. World of Wonder was also selected for Realscreen's Global 100 list, which recognises the top international non-fiction and unscripted production companies working in the industry today. World of Wonder creates out of a historic building/gallery space in the heart of Hollywood.

12/04/2025

TOMORROW - we’re back! 👏 Owning Manhattan Season 2 premieres this FRIDAY DEC 5 worldwide on !

Ryan Serhant aims to break into the posh uptown housing market with his next-level team of Serhant agents, but will rivalries, egos, gossip and betrayals stand in the way of success?

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"Just as the Hollywood pin-up represented s*x, so I represented the ideal daughter that millions of fathers and mothers ...
12/04/2025

"Just as the Hollywood pin-up represented s*x, so I represented the ideal daughter that millions of fathers and mothers wished they had."
Deanna Durbin
– December 4, 1921

In early 1935, MGM was planning a biopic about an opera star and were looking for someone to play the young singer. The MGM casting director heard about a talented young singer, and he contacted her and asked her to audition. Deanna Durbin came to the MGM lot and sang for the studio's vocal coach, who was stunned by her "mature soprano" voice. She sang the number again for Louis B. Mayer, who signed her to a six-month contract.

She made her first film appearance in the short EVERY SUNDAY (1936) with teenage Judy Garland. Some of the execs at MGM thought it unwise to cast two female singers together, but the film demonstrated their talents as performers, and Mayer had sign both, but he let Durbin's contract expire after six months.

Durbin soon signed with Universal Studios where she was paid $40,000 per film (that's $877,000 in 2025 bucks). Her success playing the ideal teenage girl in films was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy.

In 1938 Durbin was given a special Academy Award for Best Juvenile Actor. She was Universal's top draw. From 1936-1948, Durbin's fan club was the largest in the world. Winston Churchill was a big fan of her films, and she was Anne Frank's favorite Hollywood star.

As she got older, Durbin became dissatisfied with the girl-next-door roles assigned to her by the studio and she attempted to portray more mature characters and with a sophisticated style.

In 1946, Durbin was the second highest paid female in the USA, right behind Bette Davis. She was, like Judy Garland, a Hollywood creation and a worldwide phenomenon.

She married film producer/director Charles Henri David in 1950. The couple moved to a farmhouse near the village of Neauphle-le-Chateau outside of Paris. Durbin removed herself from public life and fiercely guarded her privacy. Unlike Greta Garbo, who famously strolled the streets of New York City, Durbin truly wanted to be alone.

In 1980, she sent a current photo of herself to LIFE magazine, with a note explaining that she was upset at stories that claimed she had become overweight. After her retirement, Durbin granted only a single interview.

12/04/2025

Nicole Paige Brooks's Tips for Las Vegas! 🎲 Season 2 and All Stars 10 icon talks Vegas, baby! in ALL-NEW Scroll Patrol!

📱 Scroll Patrol hosted by Nicole Paige Brooks premieres Wednesdays on WOW Presents Plus AND YouTube!

12/04/2025

LET’S GO! 💪 Owning Manhattan Season 2 premieres this FRIDAY DEC 5 worldwide on !

Ryan Serhant aims to break into the posh uptown housing market with his next-level team of Serhant agents, but will rivalries, egos, gossip and betrayals stand in the way of success?

💼 Season 2 premieres December 5 only on Netflix. Produced by

"If anyone reckons that all that I am attempting to express in my music is a little nostalgia and lots of humor and opti...
12/03/2025

"If anyone reckons that all that I am attempting to express in my music is a little nostalgia and lots of humor and optimism, well then, that is exactly how I would like to be remembered."
Nino Rota
– December 3, 1911

Nino Rota was a pianist, conductor, noted academic, and one of the most important composers in Film History. Popular and prolific (171 films), Rota wrote some of the most memorable and loved film scores, including Francis Ford Coppola's The GODFATHER PARTS I and II (1972, 1974), gay filmmaker Luchino Visconti's THE LEOPARD (1963), films by King Vidor and René Clement, plus Zeffirelli's other popular Shakespeare films, nearly all of Fellini's output, along with more than 140 other Italian films.

He studied music at the prestigious Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, graduating when he was only 17 years old. Rota was famous both as a composer and as an orchestra conductor while still a teenager. His first oratorio was performed in Milan and Paris in 1923, when he was just 12. From 1930 to 1932, Rota lived in the USA, after he won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

In 1944, Rota was commissioned for his first film score by director Renato Castellani for the romantic ZAZA (1942), bringing him significant success.

Rota is most noted for his work with Fellini. He began his relationship with the director in 1952, producing a brilliant, exciting score for THE WHITE SHEIK. Roto described his collaborations with Fellini as "ones that were always meant to be", and that when they worked together everything fell in place perfectly. They continued to work together for decades, producing 70 scores.

Rota won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for THE GODFATHER. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti and Zeffirelli.

Rota was openly gay, but very quietly so. He was very close to prolific Italian screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who did the screenplay for the classic THE BICYCLE THIEF (1948). He had a loving lifelong relationship with composer Igor Stravinsky, and he was very chummy with gay composer Aaron Copland, and it was Copland who inspired Rota to write music for film.

12/03/2025

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🙏 🙏 Season 2 finalist M1ss Jade So takes us behind the scenes in the season finale of My Untucked Life, full season OUT NOW on WOW Presents Plus

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Don't Google me! 🤣😍 Season 2 and All Stars 10 icon talks about her husband and Married Life in ALL-NEW Scroll Patrol!

📱 Scroll Patrol hosted by Nicole Paige Brooks premieres Wednesdays on WOW Presents Plus AND YouTube!

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Outtake 😹🗽 and his top-tier agents are back for a next-level 2nd season, premiering this Friday Dec 5 worldwide on

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