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EXCLUSIVE: Spongebob SquarePants, the #1 kids animated TV series for the past 17 years, will keep going. Nickelodeon has ordered a 13-episode 13th season of the pop culture phenom. The renewal comes on the heels of Spongebob’s Big Birthday Blowout, a live-action and animated special, drawing 2.2 million total viewers…

Fox has renewed Gordan Ramsay’s hit kids cooking competition series MasterChef Junior for an eighth season. Additionally, former The Chew co-host Daphne Oz is joining the reality competition series as a judge for Season 8. In the new season, the pint-sized contestants will cook a meal for diners at a historical…

There’s a new original series coming to Cartoon Network called The Fungies!, the network announced today. The prehistoric comedy from Stephen Neary will explore Fungietown through the whimsical quests of Seth, one of the town's young mushroom inhabitants. In his search for the ultimate adventure, Seth often stirs up…

Brat, the digital network targeting the Gen Z demographic, has renewed its freshman series Zoe Valentine for Season 2 which will launch in the fall along with other staple original series including Season 4 of Total Eclipse and Season 5 of Chicken Girls. The cast of high school drama Chicken Girls performed at VidCon…

HBO has renewed drama series Euphoria for a second season. "Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has built an incredible world with an extraordinary cast led by the supremely talented Zendaya," HBO’s EVP Programming Francesca Orsi said Thursday. "We are so grateful that he chose HBO as the home for this groundbreaking…

Grantchester is coming back for a fifth season after British broadcaster ITV and PBS Masterpiece renewed the quaint drama. Stars Robson Green and Tom Brittney will return, although James Norton will not. The fourth season of the Kudos-produced drama is set to air in the U.S. this weekend after airing in the UK at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Three weeks into its fifth-season run, Hallmark Channel has renewed top-rated series Good Witch, starring Catherine Bell, for a sixth season. Season 6 of the supernatural comedy-drama will be without Bailee Madison, who will be exiting after starring as Grace Russell since the series’ 2015 launch. "Once…

Amazon is finalizing a third-season renewal of thriller Absentia, starring and executive produced by Castle alumna Stana Katic, I have learned. The full second season of Absentia, commissioned for Sony Pictures Television's international networks, premiered June 14 on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S. as well as in…

Starz has picked up original series Wrong Man for a second season, the announcement coming the same week the Supreme Court struck down the conviction of death row inmate Curtis Flowers, whose case was examined in the series’ first season. The six-episode second season from filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy…

Amid strong ratings, CBS has ordered a second season of its hit summer action-adventure series Blood & Treasure, from CBS TV Studios and Propagate. The series, which premiered May 21, is currently the No. 1 new summer scripted series with 5.71 million viewers. It has improved its time period by +17% over the same time…

E! has picked up a fifth season of its hit series Total Bellas. The network has ordered ten hour-long episodes of the docuseries, which follows the lives of WWE Superstars Nikki Bella and Brie Bella, for premiere in early 2020. Season four of Total Bellas featured Nikki exploring life as a newly single woman, Nikki…

Netflix has renewed Danish Original drama series The Rain for a third and final season. The internet network announced the news Wednesday on Twitter. In The Rain, the world as we know it has ended. Six years after a brutal virus carried by the rain wipes out almost all humans in Scandinavia, two Danish siblings emerge…