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TNT will renew its successful original series Witchblade for another 13 episodes, starting next summer, a TNT spokesperson told SCI FI Wire. The series, based on the Top Cow comic book series of the same name, ended its first season on Aug. 19.

Witchblade averaged a 2.3 rating for its first 10 weeks on the cable network, an improvement on programming that previously held that timeslot, the spokesperson said. Witchblade stars Yancy Butler as NYPD cop Sara Pezzini, who comes into possession of a supernatural gauntlet that alters her destiny.

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Briefly Noted

The Aug. 21 season finale of TNT's original series Witchblade scored a 2.7 rating, tying the show's best single-episode number, for the June 12 series premiere, the Comics Continuum Web site reported. More than 35 million viewers saw the finale, the site reported.