As an on-demand pay network, Here TV has no fixed programming schedule. Instead, viewers choose from a rotating menu of movies and programs, available whenever they want to watch, and purchase them individually, in three-hour blocks or as an unlimited package for a monthly fee.

Founder Paul Colichman's Regent Entertainment is a longtime film producer, and the channel claims a library of 1,100 gay themed films available on the service, including Peter's Friends, Go Fish and Friends & Family, about two openly gay men who keep secret their jobs as "ruthless Mob enforcers."

But increasingly, Here is offering original series as well:

• Dante's Cove (due in October), a supernatural soap set on a Caribbean island, described as "Dynasty meets Dark Shadows."
  
• Third Man Out (September), based on Richard Stevenson's book series about gay detective Donald Strachey, (Chad Allen) to air as several movies.
  
• Birch & Co., a monthly talk show hosted by Elizabeth Birch, former director of advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign.
  

Margaret Cho's Assassins, the comedian's stage show, will air Sept. 1 with a simultaneous theatrical release in 10 cities.

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