'The Royals' Renewed For Third Season By E!

Less than two weeks before its second season finale, The Royals has been renewed for a third season.

The Royals will be back for a third season. E! Entertainment today announced the season three pick-up of its first original scripted drama series, co-produced by Lionsgate and Universal Cable Productions. Created by Mark Schwahn, the hour-long drama centers around a fictional modern day royal family. The Royals' third season will again be 10 one-hour episodes.

Currently, all-new episodes of season two air every Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The stellar cast is led by Elizabeth Hurley as the calculating Queen Helena, and she is joined by William Moseley as the vengeful Prince Liam, Alexandra Park as an uncontrollable Princess Eleanor, Tom Austen as the Prince's devious bodyguard Jasper Frost, Oliver Milburn as the troubled head of the Royal security, and Jake Maskall as the newly-crowned and universally despised King Cyrus. Lydia Rose Bewley, Andrew Bicknell, Victoria Ekanoye, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Simon Thomas, and Scott Maslen co-star along with Joan Collins as the Grand Duchess of Oxford. The series, which ranks as one of 2015's top new scripted cable series, is executive produced, written and directed by Mark Schwahn, and executive produced by Brian Robbins, Joe Davola and Shauna Phelan.

'The Royals' Reaches Record Audience Highs with All Key Demos

E!'s first original scripted series, "The Royals," delivered a record high 1.3M P18-49 (Sunday, May 3 at 10pm), an increase of +25% over the previous week in L3s. The episode also scores series high ratings among its core female audiences, including 1.1M F18-49 and 600K F18-34 in L3s, up +27% and +33% versus last week's episode respectfully. "The Royals" delivered 2.2M P2+ this week in L3s. The series remains the highest rated new original scripted series this year across all key demos in ad supported cable, excluding spinoffs.

"The Royals" has two episodes remaining in its first season with the finale on Sunday, May 17 at 10pm. The fan favorite series has already been picked up for a second season and will return late 2015.

'The Royals' Series Premiere Delivers Combined L3 Audience of 3.4 MM Total Viewers with 1.6 MM in 18-49

The Royals Season: 1 cast -- Pictured: (l-r) Manpreet Bachu as Ashok, Ukweli Roach as Marcus, Merritt Patterson as Ophelia, William Moseley as Prince Liam, Lydia Rose Bewley as Penelope, Jake Maskall as Cyrus, Sophie Colquhoun as Gemma, Hatty Preston as Maribel, Elizabeth Hurley as Queen Helena, Oliver Milburn as Ted, Vincent Regan as King Simon, Alexandra Park as Princess Eleanor, Tom Austen as Jasper -- (Photo by Frank W. Ockenfels 3/E! Entertainment)

E!’s first original scripted series, The Royals, opened strong, garnering a combined L3 audience of 3.4 MM total viewers, 1.6 MM in 18-49 and 729K in women 18-34 across its three airings on March 15.

The premiere telecast of The Royals (March 15, 10:00 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.) debuted with a +55% lift in total viewers over LS results with 2.2 MM; a +64% lift in A18-49 with 1.04 MM viewers; and a +72% lift in W18-34 with nearly half a million viewers (462K). Excluding spinoffs, The Royals ranks as the biggest cable launch this year among W18-34 and W18-49 (#2 overall behind Better Call Saul).

Additionally, a combined audience of 5.3 MM tuned in for the series premiere of The Royals across E! and its sister networks, including Oxygen, Bravo and USA from March 15- March 18.

The Royals, E!’s first original scripted series, airs Sunday nightsat 10 p.m. Created by Mark Schwahn, the hour-long drama centered on a fictional modern day royal family features a distinguished cast that includes Elizabeth Hurley and Vincent Regan as Queen Helena and King Simon, along with William Moseley and Alexandra Park as their devious and scandalous royal twins Prince Liam and Princess Eleanor. The Royals is a co-production of Lionsgate and Universal Cable Productions and will begin production on season two this spring in London. The series is executive produced, written and directed by Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill), and executive produced by Brian Robbins, Joe Davola (One Tree Hill, Smallville), and Shauna Phelan.

'The Royals' Sneak Peek: Sexual Tension Rises Between Princess Eleanor and Jasper

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Meet Queen Helena and 'The Royals' Family (Video)

The Royals Season: 1 cast -- Pictured: (l-r) Manpreet Bachu as Ashok, Ukweli Roach as Marcus, Merritt Patterson as Ophelia, William Moseley as Prince Liam, Lydia Rose Bewley as Penelope, Jake Maskall as Cyrus, Sophie Colquhoun as Gemma, Hatty Preston as Maribel, Elizabeth Hurley as Queen Helena, Oliver Milburn as Ted, Vincent Regan as King Simon, Alexandra Park as Princess Eleanor, Tom Austen as Jasper -- (Photo by Frank W. Ockenfels 3/E! Entertainment)

Elizabeth Hurley stars as Queen Helena in The Royals, premiering Sunday, March 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on E!. The 10-episode hour-long drama series from One Tree Hill creator Mark Schwahn depicts the lives of a fictional monarchy in modern times where power is everything, limits do not exist, and trust is a luxury this family can't afford.

The family includes Vincent Regan as King Simon, William Mosley as Prince Liam and Alexandra Park as Princess Eleanor. Or as Queen Helena likes to call them: Princess Party Animal and His Royal Horniness. Threesomes, gangbangs, drugs—this is quite the royal family.

The cast of The Royals also includes Merritt Patterson, Jake Maskall, Ukweli Roach, Tom Austen, Sophie Colquhoun and Oliver Milburn with Joan Collins making a guest appearance as the Grand Duchess of Oxford.

'The Royals' Will Premiere March 2015 on E!

Sex, drugs, power and the crown jewels. E! gives viewers an all access pass behind the velvet rope of the original celebrity family when The Royals premieres in March 2015. The ten-episode season of E!'s inaugural venture into the world of scripted television will follow the upstairs and downstairs lives of a fictional Royal family set in modern day London. The series, shot entirely in the UK, will feature myriad multidimensional characters that are as devious and calculating as they are cunning and dangerous.

The internationally respected cast includes Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Regan, William Moseley, Alexandra Park, Merritt Patterson, Jake Maskall, Ukweli Roach, Tom Austen, Sophie Colquhoun, and Oliver Milburn. The Royals is produced by Lionsgate, executive produced, written and directed by Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill), and executive produced by Brian Robbins and Joe Davola (One Tree Hill, Smallville).

'The Royals' Trailer: "We're Not a Normal Family"

The Royals are coming soon to E!

Set and shot in Great Britain, The Royals pits public perception of the royal family against the reality of life inside the castle walls, from the lavish parties and high stakes political summits, to the private family gatherings and secret romances. However being born into this elite circle comes at a cost and the Royals' lives are played out on a world stage where press is 24/7 and social media drives an insatiable appetite to follow their every move. The ensemble cast includes Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Regan, William Moseley, Alexandra Park, Tom Austen, Jake Maskall, Ukweli Roach and Oliver Milburn.

Queen Helena (Hurley) has the power, beauty and intelligence to get anything and everything she wants. And failure isn't an option, especially when it comes to protecting her family's image, which she will stop at nothing to control. King Simon (Regan) is a moral compass amidst the chaos of palace life. He is a good king, yet one who controversially places his own family above the people he rules. The youngest son of Simon and Helena, Liam (Moseley) is thrust into the spotlight when he unexpectedly becomes the heir apparent in the pilot.

Joan Collins Books Guest Starring Role in 'The Royals'

Legendary actress Joan Collins will guest star in E!'s first scripted drama, The Royals.

The Royals, which is set to premiere next year and hails from One Tree Hill team Mark Schwahn, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola, will star Elizabeth Hurley as Queen Helena in a story of a modern-day British royal family.

Collins will play Helena's mother, the Grand Duchess of Oxford, who's allegedly the only woman in the world more formidable and imposing than Helena, and comes onto the scene with an entourage and an agenda.

Collins is best known for her starring role as Alexis Carrington Colby in ABC primetime soap opera Dynasty.

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Some are destined for greatness while others are destined for drama. And then there are those who are destined for both.

The Royals is centered around a fictional British royal family set in modern day London and will focus on their extravagant lifestyle, regal traditions and life under public scrutiny.

From lavish parties and politics to forbidden romances and family secrets, the drama is as decadent as one could imagine, proving that being born into their elite world comes at a cost.

E! is offering viewers sneak peek footage of the hour-long drama, which is the network's first-ever scripted television series. Watch it below: