Out with Dad (web series)

Out with Dad is a Canadian web series created, written, directed, and produced by Jason Leaver. The series premiered on YouTube in 2010, and ran for five seasons, concluding in 2017.^[2] It follows Rose, a lesbian teenager, who struggles through the process of her coming out to her single father.

Out with Dad
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Genre	Drama
Created by	Jason Leaver
Written by	Jason Leaver
Directed by	Jason Leaver
Starring	Kate Conway Will Conlon Lindsey Middleton Corey Lof Caitlynne Medrek Laura Jabalee Kelly-Marie Murtha Darryl Dinn Wendy Glazier Jonathan Robbins
Theme music composer	Adrian Ellis
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	82[1]
Production
Producers	Jason Leaver Eric Taylor Kara Dymond Rebecca Rynsoever
Production location	Toronto
Cinematography	Jason Leaver Bruce Willian Harper
Editor	Jason Leaver
Running time	3-15 minutes
Production company	JLeaver Presentations
Original release
Release	July 7, 2010 (2010-07-07) – November 15, 2017 (2017-11-15)

The series has won various awards, including several Indie Series Awards, and has screened at numerous festivals, including the Los Angeles Web Series Festival. As of April 2018, the series has over 40,000 subscribers and has been viewed over 25 million times on YouTube.^[3][4]

Background

The series premiered on YouTube in 2010 and is filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It also streams on Blip and Dailymotion. The series shines a spotlight on the challenges of people in the LGBT community, specifically lesbians facing homophobia.^[5]

In 2011, the series was given an official endorsement by PFLAG Canada.^[6]

Since the conclusion of its third season, the series has been funded solely by fans through the online funding platform Patreon.^[7] In 2017, the fifth season, which consists of 5 episodes, was announced as the final season of the series.^[2]

Subtitles

Fans of the series take upon it themselves to publish subtitles for the episodes on YouTube in many different languages,^[8] including:^[9]

• Germanic languages : English, Dutch, German
• Latine languages : French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
• Eastern European languages : Czech
• Partially subtitled in those languages : Russian (Seasons 1 & 2), Greek (Seasons 1 & 3) and Croatian (Seasons 1 & 3)

A deal with France Televisions led to the dubbing in French of the webseries, by its subsidiary MFP, for the broadcasting on France 4 channel of the episodes 1.01 to 3.06.^[10]

Episodes

See List of episodes of Out with Dad

Cast

See Out with Dad cast members