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Will & Grace RTE Player, until March 14, episodes 1-3 Back in the late 1990s, Will & Grace was something of an on-screen political protest wrapped in the fluffy robes of a sitcom.

Will was a gay lawyer, Grace a straight interior designer, and they lived together in an apartment in New York City. It was the first mainstream LGBTQ sitcom, and one that didn’t make a giant ooh-look-my-gay-best-friend fuss about itself; it just got on with being witty.

In fact, Joe Biden said the show “probably did more to educate the American public” on LGBTQ issues “than almost anything anybody has ever done so far”. It ran for eight seasons, and now it’s back, thanks to a 10-minute Trump-baiting reunion video released in 2016 that got over seven million enthusiastic views, and led to the show being commissioned for a ninth season, with most of the original line-up. Trump, millennials and Madonna are in the firing line, and unlike many second comings, it still feels fresh and sharp. Will and Grace may be older, perhaps wiser, but they’re just as irreverent and funny.

Gaycation Channel4.com, series 1 & 2 A travel show with several differences, this Emmy-award nominated series has Oscar-nominated Ellen Page (who played the title character in Jason Reitman’s comedy Juno) and Ian Daniel exploring LGBTQ cultures around the world, starting with Japan, then heading for Brazil, Jamaica and the US.

Commissioned by Spike Jonze, filming for the first season began in New York City, where Page tried to interview Ted Cruz about civil, sexual and religious liberty while he was flipping burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Along with plenty of fun and fabulous things, Page and Daniel hear stories of struggle and discrimination.

Brazil has the highest LGBTQ murder rate in the world, Jamaica is notorious for its homophobia, while the US has a wide spectrum of views, between celebration and condemnation.