Showtime renews video "The American Life"

Phil Rosenthal reported in the Chicago Tribune that the Showtime cable net has ordered an additional six-episode run of the TV spinoff of PRI's This American Life. (That's all Rosenthal writes, so don't bother registering for more.) With the first run, more than a few critics, including AP's Frazier Moore, gave fans the good news that Ira Glass and company had succeeded in developing a visual version that lives up to the aural original.