BET has renewed its freshman series Twenties for a second season, with the first season of the Lena Waithe-produced series airing on Showtime in July, the network announced Friday.

The series, which follows a queer black girl who is chasing her dreams of becoming a screenwriter in Los Angeles, featured such guest stars as Jenifer Lewis, Sean “Big Sean” Anderson, Rick Fox, Vanessa Williams, Seth Green, Iman Shumpert, Kym Whitley, Chuey Martinez, Marsha Thomason, and Nazanin Mandi during its first season. 

“The first season of Twenties, led by the incredible Jonica T. Gibbs, Christina Elmore and Gabrielle Graham, was a joy to watch in every sense,” said Scott Mills, president of BET in a statement. “BET has always been about empowering and elevating black stories and we’re so excited to see where Lena Waithe and Susan Fales-Hill’s remarkable vision takes us in the second season.” 

William Petersen will look to take Manhattan via way of Los Alamos.

Marking his return to television, the former CSI star is now a member of  the cast of WGN America’s Manhattan, which beging production on its second season next month.

Petersen, who deivered a 10-season Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated run as Gil Grissom on CSI, will now portray Colonel Emmett Darrow, a religious and mysterious military officer at Los Alamos.

Returning cast for the series, produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios, and expected to bow later this year,  includes John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Rachel Brosnahan.

WGN America continues to ramp up its original series production, with the recent straight-to-series order of Underground, which joins Manhattan, Outsiders, Ten Commandments and Salem.  Viewers can catch up on the latter, as WGN America will encore the entire rookie season on April 4, the day before Salem's second season bows at 10 p.m. (ET).

Those who missed the first season of WGN America' s initial orginal scripted series Salem, or want to relive the supernatural skein will have their chance on April 4.

WGN will encore the show's entire, 13-installment rookie campaign beginning at 7 a.m. (ET)/ 6 a.m. (CT). The marathon will serve as a lengthy primer for the series' second-season bow on April 5 at 10 p.m. (ET)/9 p.m. (CT). Check out the sophomore season trailer here.

In Salem, the witches may be real, but they are not who or what they seem.  Season two opens at the dawn of a Witch War in 17th-century colonial Massachusetts.  As the disease and devastation unleashed by a deadly supernatural ritual spread through the war-torn village, Salem's most powerful witch, Mary Sibley, must face off against adversaries old and new who are vying for her throne.

From creators and writers Brannon Braga (Cosmos, 24) and Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut), Salem stars Janet Montgomery (Human Target, Made in Jersey), Shane West (Nikita, ER), Seth Gabel (Arrow, Fringe), Ashley Madekwe (Revenge), Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre), Elise Eberle (The Astronaut Farmer) and Iddo Goldberg (Mob City). 

New cast members this season:  Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus), Stuart Townsend (Betrayal, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Joe Doyle (Raw) and Oliver Bell (The Saint).