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CMT Renews Hot Freshmen ‘Bayou Billionaires’ & ‘My Big Redneck Vacation’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 8:52am PSTTags: Bayou Billionaires, CMT, My Big Redneck Vacation
Nellie Andreeva

CMT has given early second-season pickups to breakout new reality series Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation for a June launch. The move is a no-brainer as the two series debuted in January to record-breaking numbers and have become CMT’s two highest-rated original series in  history.  “Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation with Tom Arnold have energized Saturday nights on CMT and become runaway hits for the network,” said CMT’s EVP Jayson Dinsmore. The series are part of CMT’s push in reality TV after the network flirted briefly with original sitcoms. Bayou Billionaires, produced by Maglia Entertainment, tells the story of the hardworking and close-knit Dowden family of Shreveport, La. who recently struck it rich when the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the United States was found on their property. The Pink Sneakers-produced My Big Redneck Vacation, hosted by Tom Arnold, follows the extended Clampet family as they experience the vacation-of-a-lifetime in the Hamptons. The location for Season 2 is TBD. Both series’ first-season finales air March 31.

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CMT Sets Ratings Records With ‘Bayou Billionaires’ And ‘My Big Redneck Vacation’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 23, 2012 @ 1:31pm PSTTags: Bayou Billionaires, CMT, My Big Redneck Vacation, Ratings

CMT recorded the network’s highest-rated original series telecasts ever on Saturday with the premieres of Bayou Billionaires and My Big Redneck Vacation. Bayou scored a 0.72 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic good for 724,000 viewers, and Redneck drew a … Read More »

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