Get in on the Cinema Conversations

here! TV today announced the debut of the new interview series Cinema Conversations. The hour-long series, hosted by Stephen P. Jarchow, premieres this Friday, January 7, 2011, on here! TV and on here! Online, here! TV’s premium online subscription video player found at www.heretv.com.

here! TV invites viewers to join Jarchow as he sits down for candid interviews with the most talented and accomplished filmmakers and film critics working today. From producer and directors to actors and writers, each interview provides a rare glimpse into the inspiration and perseverance these talented and accomplished individuals bring to the big screen. Join here! TV in celebrating the stories, hard work, and passion each Cinema Conversations guest shares for the art of filmmaking.

Cinema Conversations’ debut episode features David DeCoteau, who produced and directed more than 50 films throughout his 20-year career. Future episodes include conversations with Emmy and DGA Award-nominated director Ron Oliver, noted Los Angeles Times film critic Kevin Thomas, award-winning director Arthur Allan Seidelman, Desert Hearts director Donna Deitch, Pretty in Pink director Howard Deutch, producer Barry Krost, filmmaker Howard Rosenman, film and television director Brian Trenchard-Smith, and award-winning filmmaker Angela Robinson.

Cinema Conversations continues here! TV’s aggressive original production slate for 2011, which already includes the newsmagazine A View from the Hill, OUT Soundcheck, and OUT Face to Face, with much more exciting programming to come.

here! TV Launches Online Streaming Video Player

here!TV has launched the new here! Online Subscription Video Player, which streams through thePlatform, a global leader in online video publishing. Visitors to here! TV’s website, gain instant access to the world’s largest LGBT film and television library for a monthly fee. of $7.95.

“We are excited about the opportunity to provide the here! online audience award-winning LGBT films and television series,” said Eric Feldman, here! TV’s General Manager & Executive Vice President, Programming and Operations.  “The innovation of high-quality online viewing enables here! to provide our consumers premium content anywhere at any time. With the efforts of Netflix, Apple TV, and Hulu, this extension of the here! brand marks an evolutionary step forward.”

Halloween favorites from here! TV

America's guiltiest pleasures return this month as Season 2 of "Dante's Cove" and Season 3 of "The Lair" continue exclusively on here! TV.

Season 2 of "Dantes Cove" delves into the seedy underworld of the Cove which includes drugs, lies, sex clubs, hidden pasts, and dark secrets clouding the hearts and minds of the residents of the Hotel Dante. Don't miss a second to find out how it all goes down.

Season 3 of "The Lair" introduces a new mix of vampires and supernatural residents to the Island. This season promises to fulfill all of your darkest desires!

And since October is the month of spooks and scares, here! has also lined up a delectable list of horror delights including "Beastly Boyz" and "The Afterlife".

Camp here! - Online TV from HereTV

'Camp here!' premiered this month on hereTV.

Under the 'Camp here!' service, Here Media will air more than 100 hours of MGM television and film content. The deal gives Here Media access to classic MGM television series, including the Emmy-winning 'Cagney & Lacey' and 'Fame,' as well as MGM feature titles such as 'Foxy Brown' and 'Muscle Beach Party,' and 'Bent.'

Other series and movies available include 'Dante’s Cove,' 'The Lair,' 'Another Gay Movie,' 'Brideshead Revisited,' 'Straight-Jacket,' and 'The Brotherhood' series.

“The incredible depth of the MGM library grants us the luxury to work with the best partners to target underserved audiences via digital distribution,” commented Yaoshiang Ho, Director of Worldwide Digital Media, MGM, who continued, “We could not be any more thrilled to be working with Here Media on ‘Camp here!’”

Return to The Lair

The thrills and chills of The Lair return for a third season on here! beginning Friday, September 4.

The first season of the series, set in a small town, revolved around suspicions that arose when young men turned up dead with vicious, mysterious wounds on their necks. Determined to solve the crimes, a young journalist, Thom (David Moretti), discovered clues leading him to a private gentlemen’s club called “The Lair,” a lust-filled and erotically energized environment where patrons are able to fulfill their deepest and darkest desires. As he closed in on the truth, he became ensnared by a coven of vampires led by the enigmatic Damian (Peter Stickles). As the series wore on, we were introduced to a bevy of new and interesting characters such as Dr. Jake Waldman, a botanist with a mysterious plant that seems to have a mind of its own and Ian, a wandering lost soul with a dark secret…he’s a werewolf!

More after the jump.



The blood-tingling third season of The Lair adds even more mystery and intrigue to the sleepy island town inhabited by a mix of vampires and other supernatural residents. Sexy new characters bring more tumultuous turmoil to the island and leave our cast of characters scrambling to survive. Revenge remains a constant theme, weaving its way throughout the third electrifying season. Characters old and new, each with their own agenda, have arrived on the island to wreak havoc. The race is on to see who will wind up with the power on the island and which of The Lair’s characters will survive!

The third season of The Lair will see the return of featured cast members Moretti, Stickles, Colton Ford, Johnny Hazzard, Dylan Vox, and Brian Nolan, among others. Additionally, horror and action star Sybil Danning, last seen in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, brings her star power to the small screen as The Lair’s enigmatic Frau Von Hess.



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Another Gay Sequel: The boys are back and they're as horny as ever! Packed with celebrity cameos and total gross-out humor, this outrageous follow-up to Another Gay Movie centers around the Spring Break adventures of Andy, Nico, Jarod and Griff when they enter the Fort Lauderdale Gays Gone Wild contest (a contest to see who gets laid the most). The frisky foursome become entwined in all sorts of sexual misadventures in this scandalously funny un-PC comedy.

Heat Wave: When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn the whole of Los Angeles county into a parched, lifeless desert, a scientist must put her theories into practice and discover both the source of the climate crisis and a solution before it's too late.

3-Day Weekend: Director Rob Williams serves up a shaken and stirred cocktail of sexual intrigue, humor and drama in his latest about an unlikely group of friends and lovers. Long-term couple, Simon and Jason, along with Cooper and his boy-toy du jour, meet annually for a three-day getaway. Looking to spice up the tradition, they add a twist each invites one attractive, single friend to their mountain retreat. Soon a frisky former college roommate, an often naked yoga instructor, Jason’s bashful co-worker and a high-priced rent boy arrive to stir things up. From bed-hopping to breakups this is 72 hours they will never forget.

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here! has podcasts

I listened to a couple of episodes of here! with Josh and Sara last year and it didn't really tickle my pickle but I'll give 'em another try because I am really in dire need of some new podcasts to listen to. Gay Pimpin' with Jonny McGovern once a week is awesome but it only comes out once a week and I need more. More, I tell you!

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Hot gay flicks from here!

'The Pit and the Pendulum': Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist, JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.

'The Brotherhood V: Alumni': Years after an unsolved murder at Sunnydale High, the most popular students in class are summoned back to the school for a surprise reunion, only to find themselves at the mercy of a relentless killer who holds all the answers.

'Preaching to the Perverted': A young infiltrator named Peter is dispatched by moral crusaders, led by Member of Parliament Henry Harding, to gather evidence for a private prosecution against fetish and S&M clubs in Britain, where many activities are still illegal. Peter is thrust into the sex-glamour shock of these big clubs and parties and soon gets unwittingly drawn into it, becoming infatuated with a sex goddess from New York, Tanya Cheex.

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Great titles this month on here!

'Leather Jacket Love Story': Director David Coteau produces a love story between an 18 year-old naïve poet, Kyle, and a 29 year-old carpenter named Mike and their journey of courtship and eroticism. Set in a hip coffeehouse in Los Angeles (perfect for an aspiring poet), the duo meet and begin their love affair but it isn't long before it becomes obvious that the two have almost nothing in common. Though Kyle is convinced this is love, Mike views this love affair quite differently.

'Ciao': When Mark dies unexpectedly, he leaves behind two men: Jeff, his best friend and Andrea, an Italian he’s been corresponding with online. By way of this tragedy, the two strangers from different ends of the world develop into a deeply realized friendship that may change their lives forever.

'Hard': When a series of brutal killings of young male hustlers awaken the police to the threat of a serial killer, rookie detective Raymond Vates and his partner, detective Tom Ellis, must battle an intolerant police department that is indifferent to what it calls “misdemeanor killings.”

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Hot Gay Comics

here! presents Hot Gay Comics Live on Wednesday, January 14 in New York City.

Check it out live if you can or enjoy it from the comfort of your own living room courtesy of here!.

here! TV in January

From documentaries about Broadway and Massachusetts' fight for marriage, to endearing family comedies, to touching love stories, January is chock full of new films.

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway deftly chronicles the entire process of putting together a Broadway musical from the early stages of casting, all the way through to the nail-biting of The Tony Awards. In Breakfast With Scot, Eric, an ex-hockey player, and his boyfriend become the guardians of a young boy who is anything but athletic.

With personal stories and political anecdotes, Saving Marriage documents the uphill battle as Massachusetts struggled to answer the question "Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry?" Tru jeopardizes her friendship with the closeted football player when she sets up her school's first Gay-Straight Alliance in the heartwarming film Tru Loved.

The month wraps up with director Shamim Sarif's beautiful film, The World Unseen, a moving look at the hardships of unconventional relationships during the beginning of Apartheid in South Africa. To find out when these films make their television debut, click here! and choose your provider.

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'Holding Trevor' and 'Murder.com' this month on here!

You won't want to miss two of October's featured titles which are making their debut exclusively on here!

"Holding Trevor" is the poignant tale of a group of twentysomethings told through the eyes of Trevor Holden, a young man who is embarking on a personal existential journey. After taking the leap to leave his strung-out boyfriend, and almost ready to give up on dating, Trevor meets the charming Ephram. His relationship, however, puts a damper on his friendships with Andie and Jake who, it turns out, have their own issues to muddle through.

In the thrilling mystery "Murder.com," Stacy, played by Alexandra Paul, is a high-powered South Beach lawyer who returns home when her estranged sister, Karen, is killed by an unknown assailant. Taking the investigation into her own hands, Stacy is shocked when she discovers Karen’s secret online profile on a tacky dating website. In the process, she uncovers disturbing revelations about a sister that she barely knew. This fascinating nail-biter also stars the delectable David Moretti.

To find out when these titles and more are available in your area, click here! and choose your provider. Or, call 1.888.HERE.NOW to subscribe.

The Lair: Season 2

In the first season of "The Lair," the bodies of young nameless men were turning up dead with grisly wounds to their necks. A young journalist named Thom was investigating the mysterious 'John Doe Murders'.

Clues lead Thom to a secret club, The Lair, and its coven of vampires, where your darkest desires can be fulfilled.

Season two picks up where season one left off as, in the midst of warring vampire factions we are introduced to Dr. Jake Waldman, a botanist with a mysterious plant which seems to have a mind of its own and Ian, a wandering lost soul with a dark secret and a beast that lurks within.

The series stars MileHighGayGuy favorites Colton Ford (top) and Dylan Vox (bottom).

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