Reichen Joins The Cast Dante’s Cove

America’s premium gay television network, is pleased to announce that openly gay actor Reichen Lehmkuhl joins the cast as one of the new stars of season three of the gothic supernatural soap Dante’s Cove. Now in production in Hawaii, season three of the show will debut on here! in October 2007.
“We couldn't be more thrilled to have a talent like Reichen on board,” said Meredith Kadlec, Vice President of Original Programming for here!. “He is the perfect triple threat for Dante's Cove – he has a loyal fan base, he is proudly out, and he is simply gorgeous.”
Lehmkuhl first rose to fame after winning the grand prize on the CBS show The Amazing Race. From there, he went on to build an acting resume with gigs including Frasier, The Drew Carey Show, Days of Our Lives and The Young & the Restless. On the big screen, he has been seen in films including Partners and The Scorned, as well as having a role in the here! Films project The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.
Off screen, Lehmkuhl recently published his first book, HERE’S WHAT WE’LL SAY: Growing Up, Coming Out in the U.S. Air Force Academy, which was published in 2006 by Carroll & Graf. The book chronicles his experiences in the U.S Air Force under the United States’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy requiring gay and lesbians enlistees to remain in the closet. In addition, after serving as a spokesperson for jewelry designer Udi Behr for his international company Love and Pride (www.loveandpride.com), Behr recently launched a new line, Fly Naked, based on Lehmkuhl and his love of flying.
Dante’s Cove, America’s sexiest guilty pleasure, was named the Best Soap Opera by leading gay and lesbian publication The Advocate in 2006. The series follows a cast of mostly gay and lesbian characters who all live together at the Hotel Dante in the sleepy beachside community of Dante’s Cove. When a dark, supernatural force is accidentally released from the basement of the Hotel Dante, the hotel residents are plunged into a world of intrigue, secrets and shifting romantic ties.
On the show, Lehmkuhl will play Trevor, a business school graduate who comes to Dante’s Cove looking to find himself. While there he becomes quickly intertwined with the beautiful men and enigmatic forces crawling all over the island. His close association with the immortal witch Grace (Tracy Scoggins) draws Trevor into a magical world and a dark battle he never could have imagined.
The wildly popular Dante’s Cove recently became the first original series ever to be picked up for a third season by a gay television network. Lehmkuhl joins an already popular cast of actors including Tracy Scoggins, Thea Gill, Jenny Shimizu, Charlie David, Greg Michael, Michelle Wolff and Erin Cummings.
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'Dante's Cove' Gets Third Season

Production on a third season of here! TV's gay soap Dante's Cove will begin early next year.
The soap will become the first series renewed for a third season by an LGBT network in America.
"The success of Dante's Cove, which has built a loyal fan base over its first two seasons, has helped build a solid foundation for the network," said Paul Colichman, founder and CEO of here! Networks. "We are proud and excited to announce the shows renewal for a third, thrilling season."
from Digital Spy

AOL Partners With here!

AOL has partnered with gay-themed cable network here! to distribute a selection of short form video clips via its AOL Gay & Lesbian channel.
The detail entails over 300 video snippets from here!'s library, including the soap opera Dante's Cove and the private eye film Shock To The System: A Donald Strachey Mystery. The here! clips, which range from two to six minutes in length, are ad supported, featuring both pre and post roll video ad spots along with banner ads.
"Partnering with a powerhouse such as AOL underscores our commitment to reaching the gay and lesbian consumer with quality online video options," said Paul Colichman, here! CEO and founder. "The popularity of AOL Gay & Lesbian coupled with here!'s first-rate content will help feed the growing market of the millions of discerning gay and lesbian consumers who seek quality entertainment online."
from Media Week

here!'s Month-Long Fright Fest

here! Networks, America's premium gay and lesbian television network, will be offering a heart-pounding mix of its quality programming this October featuring some of the hottest faces on television half-dressed and struggling to survive until the end credits. All these spooky specials lead up to the airing of four back-to-back episodes of the sexy supernatural soap opera "Dante's Cove."
October programming on here! will feature an array of films from acclaimed horror writer-director-producer David DeCoteau, including The Brotherhood IV: The Complex, the latest film in the helmer's Brotherhood franchise; The Sisterhood, where blood is the beverage of choice in a scantily-clad sorority house; Leeches!, in which the blood-sucking creatures are the new guys on campus; and Speed Demon, where hardcore bare-chested hunks grease each other's gears in order to move faster than their enemy.
"Looking at our extensive film library, we realized that we had all the makings for a really fun, frightening and eclectic festival designed specifically for the Halloween season," stated Paul Colichman, here!'s Founder and CEO.
In addition to the sexy scenes from DeCoteau, here! will be presenting Paul Etheredge-Ouzts' acclaimed HellBent, the first gay slasher flick, produced by Joseph Wolf, co-creator of horror classics Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Set during the elaborate and wildly fanciful West Hollywood Halloween Festival, and featuring authentic footage from the carnival, HellBent finds four sexy Angelinos heading out for a night surrounded by flamboyant costumes, beautiful people, drugs, music, dancing and, of course, sex. Little do they know that a cold-blooded killer has his eye set on them.
here!'s Halloween extravaganza culminates in four consecutive episodes of fan-favorite "Dante's Cove," the sexiest guilty pleasure on television. In this, the second season of the Gothic pleaser, the residents of the Hotel Dante, joined by a slew of newcomers, are forced to deal with issues brought to a boiling point at the end of season one: addiction, insanity, love, infidelity, coming out and breaking up. Add to that a dash of the occult and you have all the elements for what promises to be one of the hottest, sexiest and most suspenseful shows on TV. More information on the show and its cast can be found at www.dantescove.com.
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