SOAPnet renews Being Erica, Announces New Shows

Brian Frons, President, Daytime, Disney ABC Television Group, announced the new series recently picked up by SOAPnet and the return of the critically acclaimed BEING ERICA.

HOLIDATE, originally a one-hour special, has now being expanded to a 10 episode series. Each hour-long episode features two women who switch lives and date men in each other's towns. The women will communicate with each other as they hunt for true love. Series premieres July 29.

BANK OF MOM AND DAD, based on a BBC series, shows what happens when mom and dad move in with their twenty-something and thirty-something daughters who are in financial hell. Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi helps each woman plan a road map for the future. Ten episode series premieres Sept. 30.

The second season of BEING ERICA,starring Erin Karpluck (pictured above)returns in early 2010.

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SOAPNet To Air Three Original Series

Soapnet's series pickups include a 13-episode order for drama "Being Erica," from Temple Street Prods. and Canuck net CBC. Series stars newcomer Erin Karpluk as a 32-year-old woman who revisits moments in her life through shrink sessions with her mysterious therapist. It's set to bow in the spring.

"Southern Belles," from Endemol USA and ABC Media Prods., is described as a docu-soap following the lives of five twentysomething, single women in Louisville, Ky. Cabler has ordered 10 segs for debut next year.

"Greg Behrendt's Wake-Up Call" is a six-episode nonscripted skein from Avalon Television that is set to bow Jan. 8 at 11 p.m. as part of Soapnet's Valentine's Day-themed programming slate. Behrendt, co-author of the femme dating self-help hit "He's Just Not That Into You," will counsel one couple in each seg on their relationship troubles.