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'Moonlight' fans giving blood to save show

Even though most industry observers expect CBS to renew Moonlight without prompting, fans of the vampire drama are using their blood (and maybe sweat and tears) to save their show.

Even though most industry observers expect CBS to renew

Moonlight

without prompting, fans of the vampire drama are using their blood (and maybe sweat and tears) to save their show.

According to the Hollywood Reporter,

Moonlight

fans are joining forces with the Red Cross and YouChoose.net to organize a nationwide blood drive in support of the series. Already more than 3,000 fans have pledged to donate a pint.

In addition, the trade paper is reporting that the fan actions are expected to prompt

Alex O'Loughlin

, the show's blood-sucking star, to take a new role as Red Cross spokesman.

While

Moonlight

has routinely lost viewers between

Ghost Whisperer

and

Numb3rs

on Friday nights, CBS gave the freshman drama - subject of extensive casting and show-running tumult both before and during the season - a vote of confidence with a four-episode post-strike order.

Moonlight

returns to CBS on April 25.

Showtime pleased with "Tudors," "Tracey" premieres.

The second-season premiere of

The Tudors

was off by 12 percent from last year's series launch, but Showtime isn't concerned.

The latest installment in Henry VIII's (

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

) ongoing attempts to wed and bed Anne Boleyn (

Natalie Dormer

) was watched by just over a million viewers in its two Sunday-night plays.

The first airing of the

Tudors

premiere drew 768,000 viewers, off by the aforementioned 12 percent from the first airing of last season's premiere, but up by 65 percent over the audience for the most recent finale in June.

Showtime isn't worried about those figures because the premium cable giant also tallied roughly a million downloads of the premiere from online platforms including YouTube, Yahoo, MSN and Showtime's online hub. In addition, the episode was made available early for OnDemand viewers.

Showtime is also pleased with the Sunday series premiere of

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

. In its two original hours in the 10 p.m. hour, the comedy series attracted 776,000 viewers, only slightly lower than last year's premiere of the Golden Globe-winning

Californication

.

TV Land renews "High School Reunion."

TV Land is renewing the reality series

High School Reunion

for what the cable network is calling a second season.

Through its first four episodes, TV Land's

High School Reunion

has averaged 767,000 viewers, with the latest installment approaching 800,000 viewers. The show's viewership is 12 percent above the channel's average, with a median age of 46.

High School Reunion

aired for three seasons on the WB, where its reuniting classmates were getting back together after 10 years out of high school. As befits TV Land's core demo of viewers 40 to 54, the new incarnation's students are reuniting for an exotic vacation getaway after 20 years, with somewhat similar consequences.

The new season of

High School Reunion

will premiere in the first quarter of 2009 and will, like the WB series, be executive-produced by Mike Fleiss.

"Las Vegas" creator drives "Knight Rider."

The new

Knight Rider

, slated to join the NBC lineup on Wednesday nights this fall, has found someone to take the wheel of the series.

Las Vegas

creator

Gary Scott Thompson

has joined the show as an executive producer and will oversee the show's writers and day-to-day production.

Knight Rider

, a sequel to the 1980s series, stars

Justin Bruening

and

Deanna Russo

.