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MTV want to keep Faking It. The cable channel has ordered 10 more episodes of their high school dramedy series.

On Faking It, a pair of best friends -- Karma Ashcroft (Katie Stevens) and Amy Raudenfeld (Rita Volk) -- are outed when some of their high school classmates mistakenly believe they're a lesbian couple. Their popularity soars so they decide to go along with it. Karma attracts the attention of a handsome boy (Gregg Sulkin) while Amy starts to develop feelings for her friend. Others in the cast include Bailey De Young, Michael J. Willett, Courtney Kato, Rebecca McFarland, Senta Moses, Erick Lopez, Amy Farrington, and Breezy Eslin.

To date, the second season of Faking It is averaging 790,000 viewers with a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Compared to last season, that's down by 17% and 10% respectively.

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Last season, Faking It had mediocre ratings on MTV but the cable channel renewed it for a second season. Will viewership rise this time around or fall? Will this comedy be cancelled or renewed for a third season? Stay tuned.

On Faking It, a pair of best friends -- Karma Ashcroft (Katie Stevens) and Amy Raudenfeld (Rita Volk) -- are outed when some of their high school classmates mistakenly believe they're a lesbian couple. Their popularity soars so they decide to go along with it. Karma attracts the attention of a handsome boy (Gregg Sulkin) while Amy starts to develop feelings for her friend. Others in the cast include Bailey De Young, Michael J. Willett, Courtney Kato, Rebecca McFarland, Senta Moses, Erick Lopez, Amy Farrington, and Breezy Eslin.

The ratings are typically the best indication of a show's chances of staying on the air. The...

Network: MTV

Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour)

Seasons: Ongoing

TV show dates: April 22, 2014 -- Tbd

Series status: Has not been cancelled

Performers include: Rita Volk, Katie Stevens, Gregg Sulkin, Bailey Buntain, Michael Willett, Rebecca McFarland, Senta Moses, Erick Lopez, Courtney Kato, Breezy Eslin, and August Roads.

TV show description:

This romantic TV series revolves around two female best friends who attend Hester High School in the suburbs of Austin, Texas.

Karma Ashcroft (Katie Stevens) and Amy Raudenfeld (Rita Volk) have tried everything to become popular at their school. Under the mistaken impression that the pair are actually closeted lesbians, their popular and openly gay classmate Shane Harvey (Michael Willett) invites them to his party.

The duo are subsequently "outed" and involuntarily nominated to becoming homecoming Queens. They want to tell the...

On TV this Tuesday: Four’s a crowd on NCIS, Parenthood‘s Bravermans put on a brave front, Apartment 23‘s Beek is a Dancing star, a family party may not have Happy Endings and you’d better watch out, because Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (ABC) | Young Kris Kringle [Spoiler Alert!] thwarts the evil Burgermeister Meisterburger in the stop-motion holiday favorite.

8 pm NCIS (CBS) | When FBI Agent Fornell becomes the target of a shooting, a...

Title: 10 Years Later Writer-director: Aaron Metchik Starring: Rachel Boston, Jake Hoffman, James Debello, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Senta Moses, Aaron Metchik, McKinley Freeman, Colin Fickes, Lee De Broux There’s a natural drama and tingly anticipation that marks all reunions of once thick-as-thieves adolescents, which is why of course the subgenre of movies that specifically trades in anniversary gatherings is so healthy and robust. Another filing in this category arrives in the form of writer-director Aaron Metchik’s ’10 Years Later’, a low-budget, character-based thriller of sorts in which a high school reunion goes awry, and ends up with a kidnapping. The movie unwinds in a small town in California, where Josh...

Crass, cheap and commercially blotto, "Tequila Body Shots" is notable for resurrecting and trying to exploit almost every unflattering cliche of Mexico -- from gastronomical eruptions to corrupt police -- while its lily-white protagonists encounter magical healers, seductive wenches and vengeful, macho ghosts.

The feature debut of commercial director Tony Shyu -- who also wrote the screenplay -- "Tequila" has a timely aspect in that one of the leads is an insufferably geeky "Star Wars" fan who at one point says to his object of desire, "You have so much more Force". Nonetheless, only a trickle of ticket-buyers will imbibe this watered-down margarita of a comedy.

Three brainless caballeros, Johnny (Joey Lawrence), Paul (Nathan Anderson) and Al (Josh Marchette) are booze- and babe-hungry dudes with little experience in women or strong drink. Hanging out at a bar, they try to dodge bespectacled Ted Robert Patrick Benedict), one of those forever optimistic losers who makes the cooler character nervous because he boldly if unsuccessfully pursues the ladies.

They meet Tamlyn (Dru Mouser), Angela (Jennifer Lyons) and Linda (Senta Moses), who are planning to attend the same Halloween party in Mexico our heroes are headed for. In the film's weak horror-movie subplot, Tamlyn has weird visions and an old boyfriend with a short temper, both of which figure later in the story.

Out for a stroll in Mexico, two of the three guys are suffering from eating fish tacos when they meet Doc (Henry Darrow), who prescribes specially concocted tequila drinks. Unafflicted Johnny is given another kind of brew that will help him in his love life. As a result he can hear the thoughts of people around him, and becomes aware that something evil is after Tamlyn.

Stephanie Arellano lends a little, much-needed sexiness as a friendly waitress who turns out to be involved somehow with the "return of Hector," a legendary hothead (Rene L. Moreno) who killed his wife and rises from the grave every Day of the Dead to repeat his crime of passion.

Among the principals, Mouser makes the strongest impression -- but that's not saying much for a film that haphazardly builds to its dubious payoff, a tequila-dribbling-from-their-lips kiss between her character and Lawrence's.

TEQUILA BODY SHOTS

Heartland Releasing

Himalaya Entertainment

Writer-director: Tony Shyu

Producers: Tony Shyu, Jong Shyu

Director of photography: Lawrence Schweich

Production designer: Peter Kanter

Editor: Pam Raymer

Costume designer: Elaine Montalvo

Music: Shayne Fair, Larry Herbstritt

Color/stereo

Cast:

Johnny: Joey Lawrence

Tamlyn: Dru Mouser

Paul: Nathan Anderson

Ted: Robert Patrick Benedict

Al: Josh Marchette

Angela: Jennifer Lyons

Linda: Senta Moses

Running time -- 97 minutes

MPAA rating: R...