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Showtime (CBS) has renewed a third season of Shameless, a second season of House of Lies, and a sixth season of Californication. All three Sunday night shows have posted double-digit year-to-year growth, Showtime says. Shameless averages 4.75 million weekly viewers across multiple platforms (On Demand, replays and DVR) and is up 30 percent versus season 1. House of Lies bowed as as the network???s second highest-rated freshman premiere night ever (3.98 million weekly viewers). Season five of Californication averages 2.96 million viewers. Is one of these a favorite?

The Big C???s cancer-afflicted heroine is getting a high profile confidante. Susan Sarandon is joining the Showtime (CBS) series for a multi-episode arc during the upcoming third season. The Oscar-winning actress will play Joy, a cancer survivor who befriends Laura Linney???s Cathy. She uses ???her cancer experience in a unique way trying to inspire other people and makes Cathy question whether she???s doing enough with her own cancer experience.??? The new season, premiering Sunday, April 8th, will also feature Victor Garber in a guest spot. Are you a fan of the show? Will you watch?

CBS (CBS) has given the green light to Super Fun Night, a half-hour multi-camera comedy written by and starring uproarious Aussie comedienne (and Bridesmaids scene-stealer) Rebel Wilson. Produced by Conan O???Brien, Super Fun Night will follow three nerdy female friends on their "funcomfortable" quest to have really, really fun Friday nights.

The Grammy Awards has announced that actor/rapper LL Cool J will host this year's 54th annual ceremony. The performer is a two-time Grammy winner and has hosted the Grammy Nominations Concert since it began in 2008. The Grammy???s will air live on CBS (CBS) Sunday, Feb. 12th. Will you watch?

ABC Family (DIS) Greek alumni Spencer Grammer and Aaron Hill have both landed guest-starring roles in the same episode of CSI: NY. The former co-stars will appear on the CBS (CBS) cop drama as techs in Mac???s lab who are questioned when one of their coworkers is found murdered in a manner reminiscent of a 1950s cold case. What do you think? Will you watch?

Showtime???s (CBS) Shameless is gearing up for its Season 2 premiere Sun., Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. EST. On the show, William H. Macy plays Frank Gallagher, the drunken patriarch of the Gallagher clan, a single-parent family struggling to make ends meet in Chicago. While Shameless gets plenty of laughs from family parties and hijinks, Macy emphasized that the show tells an authentic story about family life during the economic downturn. Are you a fan?

Diane Farr can check another CBS (CBS) show off her to-do list. The Numb3rs vet, who guest starred on CSI: Miami in October, will appear in an upcoming Season 4 episode of The Mentalist. Farr will play Amy Barron, a Type-A, business-minded owner of a small winery in North California. Joining the actress in the outing are Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia, NYPD Blue) as Amy???s friend/business partner, who is accused of murder, and Kathryn Joosten (Desperate Housewives) as the murder victim???s neighbor. HBO???s (TWX) True Blood???s James Frain rounds out the crowded guest cast. The episode is slated to air during February sweeps. Are you a fan of the show? Will you watch the episode?

I think CBS' price will go up more with the holidays since they tend to show more holiday related programs. Plus right now they have "A Gifted Man" it just make the network that much better.

Westerns are in right now. With the launch of Westerns continues with CBS (CBS) making a deal to reboot TV classic The Rifleman. Writers Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, NBC???s The Bionic Woman) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry) have made a script deal with the network to attempt to re-launch the series. Plus, Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is on board to direct the first episode should the project receive a pilot order. Back then, The Rifleman (1956-63) was considered one of the cooler titles from broadcast TV???s Western heyday. The original ABC series was created by Sam Peckinpah (long before he went on to direct violent classics like The Wild Bunch). The show starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain who dispatched bad guys with a modified rapid-fire Winchester. If picked up, will you watch the remake?

Grimm has been beating Fox???s (NWS) Fringe on Friday nights and has often rivaled CBS??? (CBS) CSI: NY in the 9 p.m. slot, too. The show has also improved its time period by 50 percent for the network (the show is averaging 6.9 million viewers and a 2.3 adult demo rating when DVR is added). In fact, NBC (GE) is going to give Grimm a shot on Thursday nights ??? airing an episode in the Prime Suspect slot at 10 p.m. Dec. 8. At the very least, the move might get Grimm some additional sampling.