'Bitten' Renewed for Second Season at Syfy
The NBCUniversal-ownedcable network has ordered another 10 episodes of the supernatural thriller that stars
Laura Vandervoort (
Smallville) as Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence.
The second season will unspool on Syfy -- and Bell Media's Space network in Canada after its
own renewal last week -- in 2015.
Entertainment One Television International, which is handling worldwide sales of
Bitten, secured the renewal deal with Syfy.
“
Bitten is a fast-paced and edgy series which has found a growing and passionate fan base on our channel. We’re delighted to bring the series back to Syfy next year," said
Chris Regina, senior vp programming at Syfy, in a statement Friday.
The Canadian drama averaged 1.1 million total viewers, based on live-plus-7 data, during its rookie season run on Syfy.
Bitten follows Elena as she attempts to escape a world she never wanted to be part of (as well as the man who turned her into a werewolf), abandoning her pack and taking refuge in a new city, where she works as a photographer and hides her werewolf existence from her boyfriend.
When bodies begin turning up in her pack's backyard, she finds herself back at Stonehaven, the werewolves' ancestral domain, where she will stop at nothing to defend her pack.
Bitten co-stars
Greg Bryk,
Greyston Holt and
Michael Xavier, and is produced by No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment and Entertainment One, in association with Space and Bell Media.
The drama joins Syfy’s stable of foreign and domestic acquisitions that includes
Lost Girl, Continuum, the upcoming
Spartacus and
The Almighty Johnsons.
Syfy also has co-productions in
Z-Nation, with The Asylum, to air in fall 2014, and
Olympus, co-produced with Reunion Pictures and Great Point Media, ahead of a 2015 debut.
Bitten is executive produced by
J.B. Sugar for No Equal Entertainment,
John Barbisan and
Patrick Banister for Hoodwink Entertainment, and
Tecca Crosby,
John Morayniss and
Margaret O’Brien for Entertainment One.
Daegan Fryklind (
Motive,
The Listener) is the showrunner.
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