Out of the Can!

It's finally here! We have officially launched OutliciousTV's new season. Today check out the premiere episode of Outdishes with Dinah Diva. The premiere episode is entitled Out of the Can and will feature some of Dinah Diva's favorite canned foods. Each day this week, there will be a new show for you to watch.

You may have noticed we have a new splash page on our website. The blog (which you are reading now, duh!) will be taking a back seat to the main website from now on. The blog will continue to be your crystal ball as to what is coming up on OutliciousTV!

Also new today on OutliciousTV.com Jason Boegh covers the red carpet for the closing night of Outfest's 25th Annual Film Festival in Los Angeles. The closing night was also the premiere of Kiss the Bride starring Tori Spelling.

More news tomorrow. We are also having our official launch party tomorrow. Woo!!
Happy Monday!

Wild-N-Edgy

With less than a week till launch we are gearing up to provide you with the best online GLBT shows.

Today we received a note from Brightcove, the company that serves our video as well as the advertisements on the videos. They offer pre-roll video ads to some of their clients who meet certain criteria. We believed we reached the criteria but were not receiving the advertisements. After over a month of communicated we were finally told that our content is too "wild-n-edgy" for national advertisers. FUCK YEAH!!! (flashing breasts in girls gone wild style) Our goal is to reach the largest gay/lesbian online audience possible and if it takes being wild-n-edgy then so be it.

Let this be a lesson to GLBT content providers considering Brightcove as your video service. Brightcove has an amazing video service that is very user friendly; but it is not the way for GLBT content providers to monetize their content.

Last night was Outfest closing night and we will have a video of that posted by the end of the week.

One Week To Go!

Only one week remaining until we officially launch our premiere season of OutliciousTV. Look for Dinah Diva on Outdishes next monday serving up some down home "cooking".

Over the weekend we cleaned up the site a little bit more. We still have some bugs to fix with the news and schedule pages but they are getting there. Our myspace now has our schedule through labor day posted.

Saturday, Starr Session visited the LA premiere of Starrbooty starring RuPaul. How many double-R words were in that sentence?!?!? Good times! Starr was an excellent sport as she was under the weather but dragged herself out of bed an to the streets of Hollywood. It was totally worth it. The video is now online.

Tonight is the closing night of Outfest and the premiere of Kiss The Bride. See you there!

Better Late Than Never!

Sorry for the delay in getting the blog posting up!

We are so excited! Our official launch is coming soon. Of course we have a few more obstacles to clear. For example, our camera equipment decided to go on strike last night!! Ahh!! We've found a few fixes and are trying them out but eventually the camera will die :-( RIP... don't buy Canon...

The good news is, most of our programming for the season has been shot, edited and programmed into our lineup!! Yay!!

This weekend we will be doing a lot of behind the scenes work getting ready for the launch. Patricia Villetto from "I Love Dick" has been spotted around town doing her comedy routine. Last night, she was was Mick and Mack's in Long Beach. She's there about once a month so check her out!!

Tonight, we will be attending "The Curiosity of Chance" at the Ford Amphitheatre as part of Outfest. We won't be covering the event though just watching it for fun!! Closing night of Outfest is July 23rd!

Breathe!

After the craziness of the past week (Outfest and other parties), it was very nice to take last night off and breathe. Well, we really didn't breathe but did get some editing done.

New on the site: Coverage from Starr Session's visit to the Hairspray party hosted by DIVA. While at the party, Starr bumped into Michael Ciriaco from I Love Dick and Outfest's Opening Night Red Carpet Special. We separated that interview and put it on our promotion tab.

Our launch party is July 31st. We are sooo excited to finally show you what we've been workin' our asses off for over the past few months!

Happy Thursday!

Where's the Party?

Last night, Starr Session attended DIVA's pre-release party for the movie Hairspray. It was so fun. Lot's of crazy people to chat with. Footage should be up soon.

Jason Boegh's Outfest Legacy footage is now up online.

We're gearing up for our launch in less than two weeks!! We're also planning a fabulous launch party. Hope y'all can come!

Sooooo tired and worn out from all of our coverage so this post is short.

It's Our Legacy.

Last night, Jason Boegh attended the premiere of the first film remastered by the Outfest Legacy Project, Parting Glances. The movie was amazing! Four stars of the film were in attendance and were joined on a panel by the cinematographer and the head of the Outfest Legacy Project.

The Legacy Project is an amazing project that was set up to preserve GLBT films that define our legacy. Although Parting Glances is only 21 years, there were no viable prints available. The Legacy Project was able to make new prints from the original negatives as well as a new set of polyester negatives that will last for a couple of hundred years. A remasted DVD is currently being planned of the film.

If you missed Parting Glances, it will be shown in New York at Lincoln Center this Fall as part of a fundraiser for the Legacy Project.

On the red carpet, we spoke with 4 stars of the film including Steve Buscemi and Kathy Kinney. Footage will be up soon.

Tonight, Starr Session visits her old stomping ground, Eleven, to attend DIVA's Hairspray: The Movie party.

We'll be back at Outfest for closing night (7/23) at the Orpheum Theatre.

Happy Tuesday!

New News!

Wow! What a busy weekend! We are workin' full steam ahead on our Outfest coverage. Red carpet coverage, Outfest @ 25, DIVA's opening night party and an interview with The Curiosity of Chance are just a few of the things we added to OutliciousTV.com

We also launched a news page with news from reuters as well as various blogs of note. Well, the links are a coming soon. Reuters news delivers the world's top headlines that the American establishment media (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) doesn't cover. News stories are updated several times a day!

One more exciting thing, we are in the process of partnering up with Shaunboy.org to offer more of our content on their website. Shaunboy.org's main market is the United Kingdom, and it will be a great opportunity to reach out and expand our audience.

Tonight, Jason Boegh attends Outfest's Legacy Gala and the screening of Parting Glances. Parting Glances is one of the first films to be restored as part of the Outfest Legacy Project in conjunction with UCLA.

Happy Monday!

Live to Tape!

Michael Ciriaco and the OutliciousTV crew worked it out on the Outfest Opening Night Gala red carpet. We chatted with so many amazing people: Tori Spelling, Chad Allen, Sally Kirkland, Reichen, Bishop Gene Robinson, Sharon Lawrence, Mary Murphy and more!!

Our first video from the red carpet is now online at outlicioustv.com. Part 2 as well as Starr's coverage from DIVA's party will be up over the weekend.

We are also in the process of launching a brand new News site that will carry not only OutliciousTV News but video news from Reuters as well as blogs of note. Look out for it soon.

Workin' the Red Carpet

Last night was so much fun!! Starr Session and the OutliciousTV team went to DIVA's Outfest Kickoff Party at O-Bar! It was also Time Warp at O-Bar so the theme was 80's.

We met so many exciting filmmakers and actors all jonesing to show off their work over the next 11 days!! Of note: Casting Pearls, Gay Zombie and The Curiosity of Chance. The footage from the event should be up this weekend!!

Tonight, Michael Ciriaco (I Love Dick, Getting It Straight and No Match Found) puts on his reporters hat and will work the red carpet at the opening night gala for the 25th Annual Outfest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

If you're walkin' the carpet, come up and say "hey". Some of the scheduled guests tonight include Mayor Villaraigosa, Tori Spelling, RuPaul, Judith Light, Reichen, Channing Tatum, Bill Condon and more!! We are hoping to talk to all of these fabulous people. We'll have our coverage up over the weekend!

2 1/2 weeks till launch!!

Only Three Weeks Left!!

OutliciousTV launches in just three weeks! We are very excited and can't wait to show you the shows we have in store for you.

Over the weekend we finished taping "I Love Dick!" a crazy sitcom-style comedy series set in the 1950's. It's like I Love Lucy but with same sex couples. We had such a blast making it and know you will have just as much fun watching it. Some production pictures are attached.

Our first "I Love Dick!" Promo is up at OutliciousTV.com as well as our Myspace page. Check it out!

Also new this week: We have added an I Love Dick tab as well as an Outfest tab to our player. The Shorts and News tab are still there. Use the arrows to get to them. On our Outfest tab we have producer JD Disalvatore talking about her upcoming film SHELTER set to play July 18th at Outfest.

We should have more Outfest coverage coming to you this week! Be on the lookout!!

Gettin' Ready

Outfest's 25th Anniversary film festival is less than a week away. We are getting out schedule together to bring you some of the best coverage. Here is a glimpse at our ambitious schedule. We probably won't be at everything on our schedule but we sure as hell hope to be.

7/10 Tuesday: Private party for Logo's Rick and Steve premiere
7/11 Wednesday: DIVA's Outfest Kickoff Party
7/12 Thursday: Outfest Opening Night
7/16 Monday: Outfest Legacy Night: Parting Glances
7/17 Tuesday: Documentary Centerpiece: For the Bible Tells Me So
7/18 Wednesday: Dramatic Centerpiece: shelter
7/21 Saturday: Starrbooty
7/22 Sunday: Awards Night: Itty Bitty Titty Committee
7/23 Monday: Closing Night: Kiss the Bride

If you see us there, say "hey hey hey!"

Tomorrow we start production on I Love Dick1 Hopefully we'll have a promo up for it on Monday!!
TTFN!!
Have a great weekend!

Getting Ready To Expand!

Lots of things happening in every department. We're gearing up for our coverage of Outfest, finishing up editing on flab2FAB!, and getting ready to shoot I Love Dick! this weekend. We haven't seen the sun in weeks!

We also ordered some promo postcards to start handing out as we get ready to launch. We found a fabulous place in Burbank called Gotprint.com to do the printing for us. They offer 5,000 full color glossy postcards for $99. That's awesome!!

We hope everyone had a nice Holiday and isn't too hungover today! Today feels like Monday, but it's a good things because tomorrow is Friday!

Feelin' Independent

My has this year flown by! It is really hot here in Los Angeles and we're workin' up a sweat getting ready for our launch in just under 4 weeks!!

Our Outfest coverage starts next week and we are gearing up to bring you the best of the parties, celebrities and films.

We received our first check yesterday!! Woo! It's nice to see our hardwork starting to pay off. It wasn't much but certainly nice to see that we actually have some revenue potential. What's most fascinating is that we haven't officially launched yet!!!

Everyone have a happy independence day tomorrow and a belated happy Canada Day!! There will be no post tomorrow!

Workin' Hard

Why the picture of hot guys on a boat? Just because.
OutliciousTV videos are blowin' up all over the web. So far this month we have had over 4800 views!!!

We're hoping to keep the pace next month as we launch our pre-launch coverage of the 25th Annual Outfest Film Festival. We are very excited. Coverage starts July 9th with a clip from the producer of the movie Shelter!

Pre-production is in full swing for I Love Dick! The cute sitcom style comedy will start script readings this Saturday (June 30th) and will go into production the following weekend!

The internet is still out at our main office. AAAHHH!!!
Happy Wednesday

6 Weeks To Go

Just six weeks left until our official Launch!! We are working hard to get all of our programs ready on time. We are also starting to plan our launch party because no gay media channel could launch without a big party.
Our news team has been hard at work coming up with an attack plan for Outfest. There are 6 red carpet events over the eleven day festival. We are very excited. For more information on outfest including film guides and to buy tickets, visit www.outfest.org.
We made a change in the way videos load at OutliciousTV.com. We decided that the videos will now start playing automatically. We understand that there are those of you out there that are so indecisive and can not pick what video to watch. Well now you don't have to decide as the videos now play automatically. You can still continue to browse our other lineups as the video is playing.
Three episodes of Tell Veronica are complete which brings Tell Veronica's programming up through August 14th.
Just a reminder, Los Angeles Pride 2007 coverage will be up June 18th!

Workin' Away!!

Just like these hot firemen, we're workin hard to get everything ready for our July 30th launch! Our pride coverage will be up next Monday!! Who knows, maybe you'll see your face on OutliciousTV.
Only one month until the opening of Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. We're putting together an attack plan to offer you the best online coverage of the festival. Find out about upcoming hits in the world of GLBT cinema, hear from the filmmakers about what's hot and listen to audience members give their reaction to the film presented. It all starts July 13th. For more information on Outfest visit www.outfest.org. Soon we will have an Outfest tab on OutliciousTV.com so that you can navigate directly to our Outfest coverage.