TNT Renews ‘The Librarians’

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TNT has renewed its hit fantasy-adventure series The Librarians for a sophomore season, the network announced Thursday.

The series, based on TNT’s original movie franchise of the same name, averaged 11.4 million viewers across multiple platform plays during its freshman season in finishing as basic cable’s second most watched series of 2014 behind TNT’s The Last Ship.

TNT has ordered 10 episodes for the second season, which is slated to launch later this year. The Librarians is produced by Electric Entertainment, with executive producers Dean Devlin, John Rogers, Marc Roskin and Noah Wyle.

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.