Animal Planet Renews Trio of Series

Animal Planet has renewed three of its Saturday night series -- Pit Boss, My Cat From Hell and Pit Bulls & Parolees.

All three series showed ratings growth in their most recent seasons, with My Cat From Hell, which features cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy tackling catastrophic cat cases, up 36% in season two. For its part, Pit Boss improved 27% in its second season, while Pit Bulls & Parolees, which will move to New Orleans next season, grew 11% during its third campaign..

The trio have helped improve the cable network's Saturday delivery 31% over one year ago to 873,000 total viewers as well as gains with adults 25-54 (up 22%) and adults 18-49 (up 19%).

Animal Planet will unveil its full slate of 2012-13 programming at the Discovery Communications upfront presentation in New York on April 5.