TNT has renewed a third season of the powerful medical drama 'Hawthorne,' starring and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith.
The cable channel has ordered 10 new episodes of the hit series, which is slated to return in 2011.
The show premiere in the summer of 2009 and ranked as one of ad-supported cable's Top 5 new series of the year. In its second season, the series continued its success, averaging 3.7 million viewers and ranking as ad-supported cable's #1 Tuesday program among women 25-54.
'Hawthorne' stars Pinkett Smith as Christina Hawthorne, an impassioned Chief Nursing Officer struggling to whip a failing hospital - and her personal life - into shape. Michael Vartan co-stars as Dr. Tom Wakefield, who has a complicated personal relationship with Christina. The series also stars Suleka Mathew, David Julian Hirsh, Christina Moore, Vanessa Lengies, and Hannah Hodson.