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Spike orders more Ink Master

Viacom owned US cablenet Spike TV has ordered a second season of tattoo themed competition series Ink Master, increasing the number of episodes from season one.

Spike will air 13 new episodes of Ink Master produced by Original Media with air dates to be announced shortly.

The first series premiered on January 17 and is currently halfway through an eight episode run, averaging 1.5 million viewers in its Tuesday 22.00 timeslot.

In the show ten of the US’s top tattoo artists compete for a US$100,000 prize, editorial feature in tattoo magazine Inked and the title of Ink Master.

They complete on-the-spot challenges to achieve this that focus on different tattooing techniques.

Charlie Corwin, Jay Peterson and Andrea Richter are executive producers.

Spike also recently commissioned Tattoo Nightmares, a six-episode series from 495 Productions featuring people with tattoos that went wrong.

Original Media also produces tattoo series NY Ink and LA Ink for Discovery owned female skewing lifestyle channel TLC.

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