Gay TV channel saving “Sarah Silverman”

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – “The Sarah Silverman Program” will be back for a third season on Comedy Central, following the resolution of four-day day standoff over planned budget cuts.

The cable channel has ordered a 10-episode season of its signature live-action series, which will now be co-financed with gay-oriented sister cable network Logo.

“We’re happy,” Silverman said. “All we ever wanted was just to make our show. Nothing fancy — just our show.”

It’s a happy ending to a drama that threatened to make “Sarah Silverman” the first major primetime casualty of the economic crisis after the cable network was forced to slash the budget of the series by more that 20% and its executive producers refused to continue at those terms.

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