Animal Planet is doggedly determined to carry on with “Pit Bulls and Parolees.”
The network has given a sixth season to the series, which will premiere later this year, Animal Planet said Tuesday.
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The new season will follow Tia Torres after she rebuilds her Villalobos rescue facility and life in New Orleans, following a relocation from Northern California.
The fifth season of the series, which kicked off in November and ended late last month, averaged 1 million total viewers, and hit a series high in the women 25-54 demographic with 409,000 viewer in the demo with the Feb. 15 episode “From the Shadows.”
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The series is produced by 44 Blue Productions and Rive Gauche Television.