Lifetime Buys More Blood Ties
By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/4/2007 1:15:00 PM
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 10 p.m., and run the last nine over five back-to-back weeks in October.
The women’s network will rest Blood while it premieres its trio of summer originals – Army Wives, Side Order of Life and State of Mind – and then bring it back when they finish. Executives are eyeing September for a rerun marathon of the 12 episodes that will have run by then.
Lifetime debuted the show, based on The Blood Book novels by Tanya Huff, on March 11 and the show has been a bright spot on the network’s schedule since. After it premiered to 1.6 million total viewers, the show has averaged 1.4 million total viewers, 460,00 women 18-49 and 220,000 women 18-34 for original Sunday-night episodes, according to Nielsen Media Research. It has also proved popular on iTunes.
Sources with knowledge of the acquisition said the show was an inexpensive buy for the Lifetime. A spokesperson for the network could not be reached for comment.
Blood Ties was shot in Canada and is set to premiere on Canadian TV later this year. It 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.
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it's about bloody time... since when are we a socialist country?? In American we produce at least 24 episodes a season!!!!
Sharon Tinburk - 9/2/2008 6:42:00 AM EDT -
Will BLood Ties be returning.....we are eagerly awaiting the show. It was a good series and my family enjoys it....and others amongst our friends. Please let me know for I can tell all if it is returing for another season....
darla wilson - 10/10/2007 10:55:00 PM EDT -
i love blood ties it was one of the reasons that i tuned into life time on sundays. although i a a woman i don't enjoywatching the romantic, and all too real dramas about women being brutalised by their husbands. so it was a refreshing break when the network aired a bit of the supernatural. maybe you should try to get yours hands on more than nine more episodes, and i'll be waiting patiently until october to see henry and vicki again.
Camille Glasgow - 9/26/2007 7:16:00 AM EDT -
This is a great show and I'm delighted that LifeTime has decided to bring it back with new showings. I have been missing the show ever since it went into rerun and I cannot express how delighted I am that they are ordering new epasoides. Please continue to air this show for it is one of my favorites
Im Drake - 9/13/2007 10:43:00 PM EDT -
i hope lifetime reads this. i love blood ties!!! if they take it off the air is someone going to pick it back up? and if not are they going to make a season 1 and season 2 dvd set to buy? i'd pay for it. i have all the buffy and angel seasons already. i liked kindred the embraced (7 part ) series and i have it too. so hopefully if it's not going to coninue to air, please make dvd sets to buy.
debra shaffer - 7/3/2007 2:14:00 PM EDT
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