Getting Court TV in order.

When gay TV executive Marc Juris got hauled into court, he was determined to make it fabulous. Hired as general manager of Court TV in 2004, Juris has since delivered style, hot new programming, and the highest ratings in the cable network's history (not to mention a contemporary new logo, replacing the old thumbprint with a DNA sequence). "I saw the network as great," Juris says, "but wanted to make it more relevant on the pop culture landscape."

The Bronx-born Juris previously worked his rebranding magic at Fuse and American Movie Classics, where he developed LGBT programming such as Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines, AMC's documentary about one of Hollywood's first openly gay actors. Juris's push for LGBT content has continued at Court TV. "We work with the ACLU on a series called Freedom Files, and we did our second episode on gay rights," he reports. Other upcoming LGBT-interest shows include Justice for All, an original film that tells the stories of five hate-crime victims in their own words; K-11: The Pink Cell, a documentary about the L.A. County Jail's unit for gay and transgender inmates: and Court TV's first original scripted series, 'Til Death Do Us Part, which reenacts real-life marriages that ended in murder. The show will be hosted by John Waters, who plays a character known as the Groom Reaper. "I asked John, 'What made you want to do this show?'" Juris recalls. "And he said, 'You know, I hate going to weddings, and I figure after this nobody will invite me ever again.'"