Hours ahead of the Season 10 finale, Paramount Network has ordered a 16-episode 11th season of its hit original tattoo-competition series Ink Master, slated for premiere later this year.

Ink Master continues to dominate in ratings, ranking No. 1 with adults 18-49 and women 18-49 in its timeslot on cable.

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Paramount Network debuted January 18 and is off to a solid start. Having replaced Viacom’s Spike, the new channel is up 93% in adults 18-49 and 85% in viewership vs the previous quarter.

Waco, its limited series about the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff with the federal government, premiered Wednesday as the best-rated…

Spike has given the greenlight to a new entry in its Ink Master tattoo franchise: Ink Master: Angels, a 10-episode series focusing on four of the original show’s top female contestants, will air this fall.

Angels will follow four previous Ink Master competitors – Ryan Ashley, Kelly Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose…

The eighth edition of Spike’s tattoo competition series doesn’t debut until August, but the cable net already has inked a deal for Season 9. The 2017 iteration Ink Master will consist of 15 episodes with a live finale, Spike said today.

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Musician Scott Weiland, former lead singer of the popular 90s alternative band Stone Temple Pilots and later of the supergroup Velvet Revolver, has died at age 48. The singer was on tour with his band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, and scheduled to perform in Minneapolis tonight. According to reports, he was found…

Scott Marshall, the Season 4 winner of Spike’s tattoo competition series Ink Master, died over the weekend. He was 41. The cause of death is not yet known.

Spike expressed its condolences in a statement to Deadline. “Spike and entire Ink Master family are stunned and saddened by the news of Scott’s passing. He was a gr…

On the heels of its highest-rated season of Ink Master to date, Spike TV has ordered an eighth go-round of the tattoo-competition series for debut in 2016. The 16-episode Season 8 will go into production in March, with a premiere slated for next summer.

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On the heels of strong ratings, Spike has ordered a 13-episode second season of Ink Master: Redemption. It’s slated for premiere in the spring, coinciding with Season 7 of mothership Ink Master.

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Ahead of its Season 6 premiere on June 23, Spike TV has ordered a 16-episode seventh season of its hit tattoo-competition series Ink Master to debut in spring 2016. Spike also announced a spinoff series, Ink Master: Redemption, which offers disgruntled former human canvases of Ink Master a chance to receive a new…

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