ABC Family Renews 'Make It Or Break It,' Orders More 'Lying Game'

ABC FamilyThe Lounging Game ABC Family has restored Ensure It Is Or Break It and acquired 10 additional cases of newcomer drama The Lounging Game, furthermore to giving pilot orders to four projects. "ABC Family extended its schedule to supply three nights of original programming this summer season, which we had our best on record, the one that gave us our personal 'triple-threat' -- Switched at Birth, The Important Thing Existence in the American Teen and Pretty Little Liars," ABC Family leader Michael Riley mentioned in the statement announcing what is the news Friday. The renewal will need gymnastics series Ensure It Is Or Break It, created by Carol Sorensen and starring Chelsea Hobbs into its third season. The eight-episode third season will premiere next season, which will start to see the cast journey for the Olymics. The youth-skewing network's back-nine order for Lounging Game, from Alloy Entertainment and Warner Horizon and good books by Sara Shepard launched in August to a single.39 million audiences, according to Nielsen. The additional 10-episode order stretches the rookie series' season to 19 obligations. What is the news comes a following day from the cabler canceled rookie drama The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Meanwhile, some projects acquired to pilot add a two comedies and a pair of dramas: &bull Bunheads, an hourlong scripted drama from Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino, turning around Michelle, a Las vegas showgirl who marries a man impulsively and moves to his sleepy seaside town where she eventually ends up working alongside her new mother-in-law at her dance school. "I spent 2 decades of my existence with my hair in the bun. I used to be stated to become a dancer," Sherman-Palladino mentioned. "My mother will be a dancer. Her finest heartbreak was once i got on 'Roseanne'. So, while scripting this will not ever equal playing 'Rumpelteazer' in the bus and truck tour of 'Cats,' it'll let me to tip my hat with a really special in time my existence." &bull Intercept, an hourlong action thriller turning around several college students who get roped into fixing crimes when one of these simple creates a greater-tech communication device that intercepts conversations with the West Coast. Ray Wright (The Crazies) written the pilot and may executive produce. &bull Baby Father, half-hour comedy within the Nine Lives of Chloe King executive producer Serta Berendsen which is about Ben, a twentysomething who becomes a parent overnight after his ex-girlfriend leaves their daughter on his doorstep. &bull Village People, from Brothers and sisters executive producer Meg DeLoatch. The multicamera half-hour comedy involves only one, high-powered career lady who retreats into a baby in the teen mother and eventually ends up being careful of all of them. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit ABC Family TV Development