More Tyler Perry’s House of Payne Episodes on Order

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: TBS has ordered an additional 20 episodes of the comedy Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, taking the total for the series to 172 episodes.

TBS has ordered a total of 46 new episodes of House of Payne in recent weeks. House of Payne and its spinoff, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, rank as ad-supported cable’s top two original sitcoms of all time among adults 18 to 49, viewers and households. So far in 2009, the shows are television’s top two series in delivery of African-American adults 18 to 34. House of Payne is distributed by Debmar-Mercury and licensed by TBS.

"Tyler Perry has created the first sitcom in history to reach this many episodes in just two years, an amazing achievement that only a handful of top comedies have been able to achieve after many, many years," said Debmar-Mercury’s co-president, Mort Marcus.

"TBS’s extension of this great program affirms the value of this groundbreaking sitcom model, which Tyler quickly turned from a dream into a phenomenal success," added Debmar-Mercury co-president Ira Bernstein.