BET Renews "The Game" For Another Season

The cable network has no plans to end the hit sitcom any time soon.

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BET (Black Entertainment Television) has renewed its hit comedy series The Game for a fifth season.

The cable network, which can brag about being the second broadcast network to successfully relaunch a canceled series (the first being Comedy Central's resurrection of Futurama), is looking to expand The Game beyond its current 13-episode format.

Originally, The CW ended the Girlfriends-spinoff show in 2009, but petitions and protests saved the show from entering the TV graveyard, and it returned with a bang—to the tune of 7.7 million viewers watching its fifth season premiere on BET. Ending the season on a high with 4.4 million viewers tuned in for the finale, fans eagerly ate up the tomfoolery between Derwin Davis (Jumping The Broom's Pooch Hall) and Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry).

Also expected to get a renewal from BET is the freshman comedy Let's Stay Together, executive produced by Queen Latifah. There's also a new pilot expected to receive the go-ahead sign: the Tracee Ellis Ross-producedReed Between the Lines. Ross would star as a busy psychiatrist alongside former Cosby kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner.

Next season, The Game will shoot for a 22-episode run. Filming will once again take place in Atlanta and is set to begin soon.

[Via Deadline]

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