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TV Renewals & Rejections: Pickup is latest of recent slate of series extensions -- HBO has given a third-season renewal to laffer "Hung." TNT, meanwhile, is close to a deal with Warner Horizon TV to renew its Southern-flavored cop show "Memphis Beat" for a second season.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Reality show to return next summer -- NBC has locked up its summer hit "America's Got Talent" for a sixth season, to air next summer.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Freshman drama shining on Tuesdays -- USA has renewed freshman drama "Covert Affairs" for a second season.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Cabler wants 10 episodes for summer 2011 -- Spike has ordered a 10-episode third season of "Deadliest Warrior," scheduled for summer 2011.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Cabler orders third season of animated comedy -- After saying goodbye to "The Life and Times of Tim" two months ago, HBO has greenlit a third season of the toon laffer.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Cabler also nabs seventh season of 'Taboo' -- National Geographic Channel has ordered an expanded 10-episode fifth season of "Locked Up Abroad," the cabler's highest-rated summer show, as well as a seventh season of "Taboo."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Cabler also orders up 'Alabama' -- FX will be mining more laughs will "Louie."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Series renewed for two seasons -- "Damages" has escaped the cancellation ax in a deal that puts DirecTV squarely in the original series business.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Net gives 20-episode pickup to comedy -- The heat is on at TV Land. The Viacom cabler has given a 20-episode pickup to its frosh laffer "Hot in Cleveland."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Apatow TV comedies get a second look -- IFC has acquired syndication rights for decade-old Judd Apatow TV comedies "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared," with "Freaks" beginning its run on the network Friday.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Network also axes 'Gravity' -- The party's over at Starz. The pay cabler has pulled the plug on its much-lauded laffer "Party Down" after two seasons.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Cabler's success rate reaches new highs following 2008 -- HBO has wasted no time in giving 'True Blood' a fourth season.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: TLC series averaging 1.5 million viewers -- TLC has ordered a sixth season of reality skein "Little People, Big World."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Duo eye fourth season of intense drama -- Walter White lives on. AMC and Sony Pictures TV are on the verge of announcing a fourth-season pickup for "Breaking Bad."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: 'Family Guy' spinoff set for 2011-2012 season -- Fox has given an early third season order to new animated hit "The Cleveland Show."
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TV Renewals & Rejections: 'Lost,' '24,' 'Law & Order' get final chance for glory -- It's perhaps the sweetest way for a long-running, Emmy-winning series to bid goodbye: nabbing the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' winged statuette for your final season.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Net cuts deal with BBC for 10 more episodes -- Starz has picked up the next batch of "Torchwood" episodes, cutting a deal with BBC Worldwide Prods. for a 10-episode order of the BBC cult hit.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: MRC shops toon to other cable nets -- HBO has confirmed it has canceled "The Life and Times of Tim," but Tim might have new networks where he can continue to make a fool of himself.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Series finale nabs best numbers in two years -- Despite airing late and on a special night, the series finale of ABC's "Lost" dominated the ratings race on Sunday.
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TV Renewals & Rejections: Animated series forges 26-episode second season -- "Iron Man: Armored Adventures" has been renewed for a second season of 26 episodes on Nicktoons.