Agent Joshua Bilmes forwards an article by Anne Becker from Broadcasting & Cable, which reports that “Lifetime has picked up nine more episodes of Blood Ties, the supernatural series it acquired from Canada. The network will hold one episode from the first group of 13, currently premiering Sundays at 10PM, and run the last nine over five back-to-back weeks in October.” The series will take a summer hiatus so that Lifetime can premiere three summer originals, and then return, probably in September, with a rerun marathon of the twelve episodes that will have aired by that time.
The show premiered on Lifetime on 11 March with 1.6 million viewers. Since then, it has average 1.4 million viewers for each new Sunday-night episode. It will premiere in Canada later this year.
The series, based on the novels by Tanya Huff, “follows a cop-turned-private eye hunting down a murderer she believes is from another world. The show was created by Peter Mohan (Mutant X) and is executive produced by Mohan, Kirk Shaw, Randy Zalken and Marshall Kesten.”
Previous SFScope articles on the show include: Tanya Huff’s Blood Books move to television and Blood Ties Soon to be a Global Event.