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Showtime Cans Queer as Folk

By Jim Finkle -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/12/2005 9:05:00 PM

Showtime has decided to cancel Queer as Folk, its drama about a group of gay men in Pittsburgh, after the end of its next season.

The pay cable network decided to end the show after five seasons,
figuring that it would be tough to keep developing the show’s characters
after more than 80 episodes, said Showtime Entertainment President
Robert Greenblatt.

renew Showtime’s lesbian drama, The L Word, for a third season.

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Here! TV Could Turn Profit in 2005

By Jim Finkle -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/12/2005 8:06:00 PM

Here! TV, the gay and lesbian media company that runs an ad-free premium cable network of the same name, could start turning a profit before the end of this year, said Paul Colichman, the company’s CEO and cofounder.

“I don’t want to speak out of school, but it could happen this year,” he
said in an interview with B&C after addressing TV critics meeting in
Universal City.

niche-market networks such as BET, Lifetime and Nickelodeon. It’s now
available in 70% of digital homes passed.

Last month, the here! premium channel went live on DirecTV. Besides that
service it also markets pay-per-view services and video on demand
programming.

Its library includes hundreds of films with gay themes. Now it’s
investing in original programming, with 12 made-for-gay-TV films and six
original series.

“Frankly, the last thing we need is more little gay intimate independent
films. We already own all of them,” Colichman told critics at a
breakfast. “We are focusing on story-form content. We are not doing
cheap reality television.”

How much is he spending on each of those projects?

“It’s not HBO,” quips Colichman. “But it’s certainly about the same as
Showtime, Lifetime or the Sci-Fi channel.”

Besides the cable products, here! is pulling in revenue from its
international division, theatrical releases of its films and a home
video business.

Although the cable products are targeted at gays and lesbians, others are tuning in. On any given day, straight people account for 25% to 40% percent of the audience, says Colichman.