Tribune renews Andromeda , Mutant X

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Tribune Entertainment has renewed weekly action hours
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda and Mutant X for next year, president and CEO Dick Askin said.

Andromeda, starring Kevin Sorbo, was renewed for its fourth year in 148
markets covering 88 percent of the country.

Mutant X, starring John Shea, Victoria Pratt and Victor Webster, was
renewed for its third season in 103 markets covering 76 percent of the country.

Tribune distributes the shows on a barter split of eight national minutes and
six local.

In national Nielsen Media Research ratings for the week ending Jan, 19, Andromeda
did a 1.8 and Mutant X a 1.9.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.