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Banana (TV series)
''Banana'' is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on E4. The sister series to Channel 4's ''Cucumber'' and the 4oD documentary series ''Tofu'', ''Banana'' is a series focusing on LGBT youth in Manchester, on the vicinity of the ''Cucumber'' narrative. Unlike ''Cucumber'', which is a self-contained serial following the story of one gay man, ''Banana'' is an anthology series focusing on the wider LGBT spectrum.
''Banana'' develops some of the storylines of characters featured in ''Cucumber'' as well as introducing many new characters. ''Banana'' is primarily a self-contained series, occasional overlapping with the ''Cucumber'' narrative. ''Cucumber'', ''Banana'', and ''Tofu'' are all named after the same scale of erection hardness, with ''Banana'' symbolising the middle of the scale from the flaccid ''Tofu'' to the fully erect ''Cucumber''.
==Development==
''Banana'' was commissioned in 2013 as a sister show to Davies' long-developed project ''Cucumber'', along with the online documentary series ''Tofu''. The three series refer to a urological scale of erection hardness, which consists of ''tofu'', ''peeled banana'', ''banana'', and ''cucumber''. Unlike ''Cucumber'', which focuses primarily on middle-aged gay men, ''Banana'' focuses on LGBT youth in Manchester that are on the periphery of the ''Cucumber'' narrative. The two series are primarily linked through the crossover character of Dean Monroe (Fisayo Akinade), who appears as a major character in both series, and are contrasted by social acceptance of the characters; whereas Akinade's character is more "open and confident" about his sexuality, the characters of ''Cucumber'' are former activists whose sexuality had to be less open.〔
Whereas Davies' 1999–2000 series ''Queer as Folk'' focused on gay men in the Canal Street club scene, ''Cucumber'' is a self-contained serial following the story of one middle-aged gay man, Henry Best (Vincent Franklin), ''Banana'' is an anthology series focusing on young characters across the LGBT spectrum.〔 The show notably casts the first transgender actor in a transgender role in a UK television series, with comedienne Bethany Black portraying Helen, a transsexual woman.〔 Davies insisted that a transgender actor be cast as Helen, going so far as to alter the script until Black was cast at the eleventh hour; Black was vocal in her praise for this, contrasting the decision with the casting of Jared Leto as a trans woman in the recent film ''Dallas Buyer's Club'', which she described as "a cisgender guy trying to play what he thought a trans woman would be like", and compared cisgender actors playing transgender roles to blackface portrayals in shows such as ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum''.〔 Helen's episode will also feature ''Cucumber'' character Cleo Wilkinson (Julie Hesmondhalgh), in a scene that symbolises a "passing of the baton" between Hesmondhalgh—the cisgender actress who portrayed the transsexual woman Hayley Cropper in ''Coronation Street'' between 1998 and 2014—and Black and the wider trans community.
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