Lifetime Renews Drop Dead Diva For Second Season

Lifetime has ordered a second season of Drop Dead Diva. The network has ordered 13 new episodes of the freshman series, from Sony TV, creator Josh Berman and executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, to air in 2010. Drop Dead Diva, which premiered in July as Lifetime’s best original drama series debut since the 2007 launch of Army Wives, has become the first scripted series since to earn a second-season pickup. It has averaged 2.6 million viewers, hitting series highs in the women demos last Sunday when the series, about a dead shallow model reincarnated in the body of a brilliant plus-size attorney, drew more than 3 million total viewers.