It didn’t take an airplane’s wheel plummeting to earth and landing in Showtime’s front door for them to make the decision to renew Shameless and two other comedies.  Today, the premium cable network announced it is renewing Shameless for a third season, Californication for a sixth season and newcomer House of Lies for a second season.  The ratings for Shameless’ second season are up 30% over its first season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Fox’s Raising Hope is one of those TV gems more people need to be watching. Hopefully, this bit of casting news will help pull in more viewers. According to EW.com, Vivica A. Fox has signed on to play Sarah Louise, a church lady who Burt (Garret Dillahunt) goes toe-to-toe with.

Fox’s character is named Sarah Louise and plays a fervent church goer that heads up the Heavenly Helpers committee at church. Sarah Louise’s position is up for election, and Burt decides to throw his hat into the ring against her, with the help of his wacky family, to hilarious results. As a little bit of a tease, the storyline involves a seeing-eye pig.

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Is former soap diva Susan Lucci in need of post All My Children guidance? This Wednesday, Lucci returns to Hot in Cleveland as Victoria’s (Wendie Malick) arch nemesis, searching for guidance after AMC's cancellation. Watch the Hot in Cleveland preview after the jump and check out TVLine's exclusive clip here. READ MORE

It looks like Glee’s Blaine (Darren Criss) is getting an older brother. According to TVLine, Glee is nearing a deal with White Collar’s Matt Bomer, to portray Blaine’s older brother.  Reportedly, the Guiding Light alum will sing in the episode with his on-screen brother.  

Bomer’s White Collar returned for the second half of its third season on USA Network on January 17.

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It may be the dead of winter, but it's summertime in Chicago on Showtime's outrageous, hit dramedy Shameless. Only two episodes into the raunchy, comic sudser's second season and we're more hooked on the antics of Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) and his dysfunctional brood than ever before!

So far we've seen Frank get youngest son Liam (Brennan Kane Johnson and Blake Alexander Johnson) kidnapped by thugs and romancing a dying woman called "Butterface"; Fiona (Emmy Rossum) working at a hip club with pal Veronica (Shanola Hampton), screwing a Jimmy Bot and fending off married men; Lip (Jeremy Allen White) being jealous of the new boyfriend Karen (Laura Slade Wiggins) picked up at Sex Addicts Anonymous; Ian (Cameron Monaghan) wanting to get into West Point, that is, when he isn't banging a recently-sprung, juvenile delinquent Mickey (Noel Fisher) all over town; Debbie (Emma Kenney) running an illegal daycare and dealing with puberty by demanding her own room and of course, little Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) trying to set things on fire. Let's not forget about neighbor Kev (Steve Howey), who has kept busy selling drugs and booze to kids out of an ice cream truck with Lip and growing super marijuana plants with his fresh-from-a-polygamous cult foster daughter. Who says there's no more quality family programming on television?     

"The hot weather brings out the mischief in everyone, even Sheila," promises Andrew Stearn, president of John Wells Productions and one of Shameless' executive producers, referencing Frank's agoraphobic girlfriend and Karen's mom, played to the hilt by Joan Cusack. "She will find herself in an interesting 'relationship."

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This Sunday former All My Children star Cameron Mathison guests on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, as Greg, a man Bree (Marcia Cross) picks up at a bar and then later throws out of her house at an ungodly time of morning. However, being the polite woman she is, Bree couldn't let him leave without a muffin.

EW.com has an exclusive scene preview you can watch at their site, but after the jump you can also watch the Desperate Housewives’ promo for “What’s the Good of Being Good.”

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