Fry Takes a Personal Look at HIV

Perhaps best known to American audiences for his comic roles, gay actor-writer (and director of Bright Young Things) Stephen Fry is returning to the serious topic of HIV, which was touched on in his 1992 movie, Peter's Friends.

Fry's new and currently untitled BBC documentary, made to mark the 25th anniversary of the Terrence Higgins Trust, a British charity, will examine Fry's friends who have died of AIDS complications or are still living with HIV.

Romeo hopes that BBC America will pick up the film, along with two other projects that Fry is making for the U.K. network: Stephen Fry in America, which will see the Wilde star traversing the lower 48 in a London taxi cab, and Last Chance To See, featuring Fry and a zoologist tracking down animals on the verge of extinction.