Maybe the bed isn't there anymore. Maybe guests no longer need be in PJs. Maybe the show isn't as campy as it was in the beginning. But Butch Cordora is still up to old tricks, filming his sixth season (in six and a half years) of In Bed With Butch, the local WYBE/DUTV television show that puts the "ay" in gay community fare.

"The new thing about this season is that I'm back on DUTV," says Cordora, 46, heading down the fourth floor corridor of McAllister Hall at 31st and Chestnut streets, home of Drexel U's studios. He and the station had words in 2002. But now all is well. "And, they're giving the show six hits a week." Combined with his usual WYBE-TV slot — Saturday nights after midnight — you can see as much Butch as you can Seinfeld. (In Bed With Butch debuts Thu., Oct. 6, 10:30 p.m. on DUTV. It will repeat there twice on Saturdays and Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. as well as on Monday mornings at 10:30 a.m. It also airs on WYBE Saturdays at 12:30 a.m.)

Since 1999, Cordora's hosted the serious and silly (Ian McKellan, Margaret Cho); the famous and not-so-famous (Chastity Bono, every gay man in Philly who thinks she's somebody). But never as consistently as he will this season, when Cordora will host actors, designers, publishers and singers: Project Runway's Jay McCarroll, Queer as Folk's Peter Paige, child actor Chad Allan, lesbian comedienne Kate Clinton, electro-disco songstress Lady Miss Kier, menswear designer John Bartlett, transgender performer Kevin Aviance, Paper mag senior editor Mickey Boardman, a rush of Manhattan drag queens and his usual garden-variety porn stars.

Today, it's "cowboy" Randy Jones of the Village People, who along with life partner/PR guy Will Grega trekked from Manhattan to talk up Jones' NASCAR TV pilot 54, his due-soon film A Tale about Bootlegging, his off-Broadway show about Rosemary Clooney where he plays all the men in her life, George included, and his CD, Midnight Cowboy.

"I met Butch two weeks ago at my 53rd birthday at Quo — 2,000 people and Janice Dickinson — after seeing him all the time at Wigstock, and his offer of Philly sounded gooooood," says Jones. "I hadn't been here in years. So hell, yeah."

"Everybody — from the guy adjusting my mic to the guy doing the sound cues to the people who picked me up from the station: They were perfect," says Jones.

Cordora thinks guests are pleasantly shocked at how "real" a talk show In Bed is. "I think they come thinking I'm shooting them in my living room a la Wayne's World," says Butch. "No one realizes it's broadcast TV."