MTV's 'Finding Carter Renewed for Second Season

MTV has renewed Finding Carter for a 12-episode second season.

MTV announced today the season two pick-up of its newest scripted drama series, Finding Carter, for 12 all-new episodes. The coming of age drama is currently 2014's #1 new cable series with 12-34 year olds and with teens. To date, the series is averaging a strong 2.0 P12-34 rating and 2.2 million total viewers (live+3).

"The creative minds behind Finding Carter did an exceptional job bringing this story to life and drawing our audience in," said President of MTV Programming, Susanne Daniels. "I'm looking forward to another season following Carter on her journey."

In tonight's episode, entitled "Half Baked," Carter and Taylor discover Elizabeth's affair and team up to force their mother to come clean. But when this revelation threatens to destroy the Wilson family, Carter must decide whether she's willing to do the unthinkable in order to bring the family back together. Finding Carter airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. Watch the mid-season trailer below:

'Finding Carter' Premieres July 8, Stars Kathryn Prescott, Cynthia Watros, Zac Pullam, Anna Jacoby-Heron, Milena Govich, Alexis Denisof

A new unconventional family drama premieres July 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. The show centers on Carter (Kathryn Prescott), a teenage girl who thinks she has the perfect life until one night after a police bust at a high school party she is told that the woman who she believes to be her biological mother actually abducted her as a toddler. Now Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her. As she navigates brand-new parents, a twin sister, high school and boys, Carter vows to find Lori before the police capture the only mom she’s ever known and put her behind bars.

Finding Carter stars Kathryn Prescott as Carter, Cynthia Watros as Elizabeth, Zac Pullam as Grant, Anna Jacoby-Heron as Taylor, Milena Govich as Lori, and Alexis Denisof as David.

Watch the Finding Carter trailer below: