‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Doc ‘Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down’ Will Show How Season 13 Came to Be

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 proves every single week that nothing, not even a global pandemic, can stop drag queens from entertaining the masses. The resilient, Emmy-winning show not only came back for a brand new season sooner than expected, it also made the magic happen in the middle of the still unfolding COVID-19 crisis. Now all the ingenuity and tenacity that went into producing Drag Race Season 13 will be on display in the special, standalone documentary RuPaul’s Drag Race: Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down.

The special presentation will air on VH1 on Friday, February 26 at 8 pm ET/PT and offer fans of the show and franchise an in-depth look at how the show made it work during the most tumultuous months of 2020. As one of the first productions shot during the COVID-19 age we’re living in, RuPaul’s Drag Race had to figure out how to stunt safely. The special will include all-new footage, all-new interviews, a look at the cast’s casting tapes, and lots of behind-the-scenes content.

As you can probably tell from the time slot, Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down will air in place of a new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The season will continue as planned with a brand-new episode—the Snatch Game episode, y’all!—on Friday, March 5 at 8 pm ET/PT on VH1.

The RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 Queens on How They Pulled Stunts During a Pandemic

If you want a tiny little tease about how the franchise responded to the coronavirus problem, you should definitely check out the Queens on Lockdown episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 2 over on the WOW Presents Plus streaming service.

In fact, Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down will actually be a kind of prequel to Queens on Lockdown; that’s because Season 13 of the American series was filmed entirely during the seven month break between Episodes 4 and 5 and UK Season 2. So while you’re watching the UK Season 2 girls deal with life on lockdown in Queens on Lockdown, their American sisters were figuring out how to make the show pop during a pandemic as will be seen in Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down.

For more information about what it was like filming during COVID-19, you can check out Decider’s conversation with the cast about that very topic, from getting looks together during quarantine to having to isolate for over a week before even setting foot in the Werk Room. It was a real experience.

RuPaul’s Drag Race: Corona Can’t Keep a Good Queen Down debuts on VH1 on Friday, February 26 at 8 pm ET.

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