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Bill Engvall gets third season on TBS

TBS announced today it has ordered a third season of The Bill Engvall Show, with 10 new episodes expected to air in summer 2009. The show averaged 2.3 million viewers this year. They cannot all be wrong, can they? In fact, network programmer Michael Wright said "there's something about this cast and this show that gives you a good feeling inside, which is probably why it's won the hearts of so many viewers." Notice he didn't say it was funny. (THR)

UPDATED: I just got the official press release from TBS, and in fact in fact, Wright did say "we look forward to a new season of even funnier episodes." Take that, me. Engvall, for his part, said he's "thrilled" to get the show renewed. The debut in 2007 attracted 4.1 million viewers. And there also will be two special additional episodes on the air this December.

Bill Engvall on CBS? One night only

Your TiVo or DVR is not playing tricks on you today. Gabe & Jenny's favorite TV show, The Bill Engvall Show, will get a one-time airing tonight at 8 p.m. on the CBS television network. CBS and TBS made a marketing tit-for-tat shaky-shake deal, in which CBS plays an episode of Engvall to help promote that show's second season (which debuts June 12 on TBS), and in exchange, TBS will let CBS promote its fall shows on that network. My Google ads for Engvall are not part of that deal. (Variety)