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Writer-director Ralph Hemecker has signed up for a second season as executive producer of TNT's Witchblade series, Variety reported. The Warner Brothers Television series was given the green light for a second year in late summer, the trade paper reported. Production recommences in Toronto in January.

New episodes of Witchblade, which is based on the Top Cow comic series of the same name, will debut in spring or summer 2002, Variety reported. The first 10 episodes of the show, which stars Yancy Butler as New York cop Sara Pezzini, averaged a 2.3 rating Tuesdays at 9 p.m.--a 64 percent bump over the movies that were running in the time period a year ago, the trade paper reported.

Hemecker's other TV directing credits include episodes of The X-Files, Millennium and Roar.