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Showtime has renewed docu-reality series The Real L Word for a third season.



The network has ordered a new run of nine episodes which will continue to follow the lives of a group of lesbian women living in Los Angeles.

The new season of The Real L Word will also expand to focus on several women living in New York City.

"We're excited and gratified to be picking up the stories of our most beloved season two cast members at some truly major and life-altering junctures," creator Ilene Chaiken confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.

"We [also] think it's time to throw down and invite the women of New York to join in and demonstrate the claims they've lobbied at us these past few years, " Chaiken continued. "That New York's women have something more to say about lesbian life, something that isn't being said by our Los Angeles ladies."

She added: "Bring it on, Brooklyn!"

The Real L Word is expected to return on Showtime in early 2012.