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Ringer Gets a Full-Season Order

Photo: JOJO WHILDEN/?2011 THE CW ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Pilot -- Sarah Michelle Geller as Siobhan Martin/Bridget Kelly on Ringer on The CW.
Photo: Jojo Whilden/The CW ?2011 The CW Network. All Rights Reserved.
Sarah Michelle Gellar. Photo: JOJO WHILDEN/?2011 THE CW ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The CW has ordered nine additional episodes of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s twin-thriller Ringer, sources say, after the show rebounded in the ratings this week to a CW-acceptable 1.7 million viewers. (Buffy’s highest ratings back in the day? 7.7 million. Times change!) Ringer’s had a decent start story-wise, with its poor-twin-takes-over-rich-twin’s-life format, but now the show faces the real challenge of sustaining intrigue over many, many episodes. It’s not clear yet if Ringer can remain mysterious without making everything too confusing and weird (“Aliasing,†if you will), or solve a few of its mysteries without accidentally robbing it of some of its best material (“Veronica Marsingâ€). But since the show’s central cat-and-mouse game is between Gellar and Nestor Carbonell, at least we know it will never run out of smoldering stares.

Ringer Gets a Full-Season Order