Hot In Cleveland Renewed For At Least 20 More Episodes

Looks like Betty White, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves and Valerie Bertinelli will be around next season after the cable channel TV Land took out the option to have another 20 episodes of the series for next season.

The ratings have been pretty good, with an average of 4.7 million viewers since the show premiered July 16th. That's really something as the cable channel usually offers fare such as reruns of "The Andy Griffith Show," "All in the Family," "The Cosby Show" and "Everybody Loves Raymond".

The producer of the show is Sean Hayes who played Jack on Will & Grace. The show stars Bertinelli, Leeves and Malick as 3 friends who uproot from Los Angeles for Cleveland (I half expect to see Drew Cary putting in an appearance) and Betty White is the caretaker for the home the three rent.

So far the series had had a number of celeb guest stars on the show, such as John Schneider ("The Dukes of Hazzard"), seven-time Emmy winner Carl Reiner ("The Dick Van Dyke Show'), singer Huey Lewis and Amy Yasbeck ("Wings"). Other guest stars that have been announced for the first season include: Wayne Knight ("Seinfeld," "3rd Rock from the Sun"), Susan Lucci ("All My Children"), Emmy winner Shirley Knight ("Indictment: The McMartin Trial") and Juliet Mills ("Nanny and the Professor").