Thanks to the folks at Lifetime, the she-sees-dead-people drama “Medium” is going to have a lucrative afterlife.
The cable network has bought the exclusive basic cable rights to the NBC series, which stars Patricia Arquette as a psychic who uses her abilities to help solve crimes.
Arquette won an Emmy earlier this year for the role, based on real-life medium Allison DuBois.
Lifetime will begin airing the show in 2009.
Terms of the deal with Paramount, which produces “Medium,” weren’t disclosed, but reports put the per-episode price at roughly $1.3 million, a fairly high figure for a show without “CSI” or “Law & Order” in the title.
In its second season, “Medium” is averaging about 12.2 million viewers per week. A substantial number of them, nearly 4 million, are 18- to 49-year-old women, Lifetime’s core demographic.
