TV Bits: 'Ringer', 'Prime Suspect', and 'Suburgatory' Get Full Season Orde

Today's edition of TV Bits isn't just a mixed bag, but a jam-packed one. Happily, it's nothing but good news all around as networks order more episodes of some promising rookie shows and get to work developing other intriguing series for next season. After the jump:

ABC orders more Revenge, Suburgatory, and Happy Endings
The CW gives full-season orders to Ringer, The Secret Circle, and Hart of Dixie
NBC orders six more scripts for Prime Suspect
HBO plans an hourlong TV version of The Kids Are All Right
Disney gives the go-ahead to a musical zombie sitcom
TNT casts Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer in a K-9 pilot

Let's start by going through updates on some current series. ABC has announced its first two pickups of the season, giving full season orders to freshmen series Revenge and Suburgatory. The two shows couldn't be more different - the former is a sudsy drama based on The Count of Monte Cristo, the latter an offbeat comedy about Manhattanites adjusting to the suburbs - but both have drawn solid ratings in their respective Wednesday night timeslots. The network has also ordered six additional scripts for the underrated ensemble sitcom Happy Endings, which is in its second season.
Meanwhile, over at The CW, all three first-year dramas - Ringer, The Secret Circle, and Hart of Dixie - have received full-season orders. Ringer, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Hart of Dixie, which stars Rachel Bilson, have helped expand The CW's viewership by raising the median age of the audience. Meanwhile, Supernatural teen series The Secret Circle makes a natural fit for the network's other, more youth-oriented shows like Gossip Girl and its lead-in Vampire Diaries.
And NBC, whose cancellation of The Playboy Club was one of the first of the new season, has ordered six ...

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