If you’re familiar with witchcraft you’ll know what scrying is. For muggles, scrying is a form of divination in which one gazes intently upon something such as a pool of a water, cloud formations or the leaping flames and burning embers of fire to discern shapes and images that give way to visions and answers to questions.

It seems that here! has given us a scrying task for season four! Newly published art on the official Dante’s Cove Web site may at first seem straight forward. But how many faces do you see? Three? Four? Eight? Who do you see? Are you sure you see who think you do? I’ve looked at it several times and while some are very clear, others are not so clear. Looks like we will have to use our powers of sight to see clearly who is really going to be in the new season!

* Thanks to Alchemy for the tip on the new art at the Dante’s Cove site!

The Dante Beacon is thrilled to announce that we have received an official press release from here! TV and Regent Media regarding season 4 of Dante’s Cove which will begin production later this year on 10 (yes 10) new episodes.

HERE! NETWORKS ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF “DANTE’S COVE”
Production on the fourth season of the wildly popular gothic soap begins this fall

April 8, 2009 (LOS ANGELES) – here!, America’s premium gay and lesbian television network, announced today production will begin on the fourth season of the popular network soap opera Dante’s Cove in fall 2009. The new season consists of 10 half-hour episodes.

“The response to the first three seasons of Dante’s Cove has been overwhelming, and our audience continues to want more,” said Paul Colichman, founder and CEO of here! Networks. “We are thrilled to announce that production will soon begin on a whole new chapter of the series. The new season will be sure to please the faithful fan base that has been eagerly awaiting its return, as well as attract a whole new viewership that will experience the intrigue and excitement for the first time.”

As Dante’s Cove returns with season four, television’s sexiest guilty pleasure is back with a vengeance. The most thrilling new season yet picks up after the near annihilation and total destruction of the Cove. Still reeling from the dark apocalypse that nearly destroyed the island, hidden secrets and new rivalries bring even more deadly consequences for the island’s sexy young residents. With mysterious new characters and an even steamier plot, season four shatters lives and contains a mind-blowing twist that leaves the island’s inhabitants shaken to their core.

For those who have missed the first three wild seasons of Dante’s Cove, the series continues to air on here! Networks, available on all major U.S. cable systems as a 24-hour subscription service in 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets. Additionally, Dante’s Cove can be found in the Video Downloads section of the here! Networks website, found at www.heretv.com.

Recent and upcoming here! original films, series, and specials include: The Lair: Season Three, a provocative and sexy vampire horror series; Sugar Rush, a British series based on the novel by Julie Burchill chronicling the social dilemmas of a lesbian teen; the critically acclaimed Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery, the fourth installment in the series of original films starring Chad Allen as a gay private investigator; the provocative six-part docu-series Lesbian Sex and Sexuality, an unblinking look inside the world of lesbian culture from award-winning producer Katherine Linton; and the original film Shelter, an indie romantic drama about love, family, and trying to stay true to yourself.

To sample here!’s programming, please visit here! Video, the broadband portal of here! Networks, at www.heretv.com/videoplayer.

For more information about here! or for a sample of its vast array of programming, please visit www.heretv.com.

About here!

Founded in 2002, here! airs on all major U.S. cable systems as a 24-hour subscription service. here! appears in 96 of the top 100 U.S. markets, including every top 10 market. here! was also the first gay network originating in the U.S. to launch in Canada. here! offers a wide variety of groundbreaking and acclaimed original movies and series plus the world’s largest collection of gay and lesbian films appealing to the broad-based, diverse LGBT audience. here! Video, the broadband portal of here! Networks found at www.heretv.com/videoplayer, provides a broad sampling of here! programming. For more information on how to subscribe to here!, please visit www.heretv.com or call our toll free number at 1-888-HERE-NOW.

In December, Charlie David hosted a phone chat session with fans. He touched briefly on the subject of Dante’s Cove season four, indicating that little information was available. He said that the network had intended to present firm plans for the new season come January.

As was previously reported, Charlie said that he was told the scripts for season four are written, but hasn’t seen them. Due to a number of things including the potential actors strike situation last year, insurance, weather and location issues, season four was not able to be shot during summer 2008 as was previously planned.

In a recent poll over at the here! TV’s Web site, here! asked viewers which here! TV original series they would most like to see return for another season. Dante’s Cove crushed the competition with nearly three-fourths of the vote. Unfortunately, the results are no longer in their poll archive.

Here is a clip of Gregory Michael discussing the need to be fit and looking great for Dante’s Cove and where he gets his fitness tips from. (Thanks to Trish for sending this in!)