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"Nip/Tuck" Gets a Lift

The good-hands people of McNamara/Troy will be in good hands for at least two more years.

Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy has agreed to remain with the cutting-edge plastic-surgery series for two more seasons, FX announced Tuesday.

Murphy's fellow executive producers, Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin, also are on board for TV years three and four, as is the cast, one of whom, Julian McMahon, was last seen as his self-absorbed Nip/Tuck self, Dr. Christian Troy, getting carved up by The Carver, the series' slash-happy sociopath.

"All I will say is that I believe in ghosts," Murphy said of Troy's fate in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times.

Prior to resigning, Murphy's fate was as murky as Troy's, as feature films beckoned.

The show's so-called "Dr. Frankenstein" is set to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of Running with Scissors, writer Augusten Burroughs' memoir of his anti-Norman Rockwell upbringing.

Now, Murphy will make the movie in the spring and head back to Nip/Tuck in the summer. The new season will launch in either later summer or early fall, FX said.

Murphy, who last summer talked about "hav[ing] said everything I have to say" to Tennessee's Knoxville News Sentinel, told the Times that the series' second-season finale, which aired in October, clinched his decision to return.

"People loved that last episode so much that it made me think I did have more stories to tell," Murphy said.

Nip/Tuck chronicles the unprettied-up lives, loves and surgeries of two Miami-based plastic surgeons, played by McMahon and Dylan Walsh.

Since premiering in 2003, the show has attracted award-show acclaim (it's up for three Golden Globes on Sunday), big-name guest stars (Joan Rivers and Alec Baldwin appeared in last fall's cliffhanger) and the right kind of viewers (it's basic-cable's most-watched original series among 18-to-49-year-olds).

But its content has scared off some sponsors, and inspired the ire of groups such as the Parents Television Council, whose president, L. Brent Bozell III, accused the show of revolving around "graphic sex, a surfeit of nudity and screaming-orgasm acting."

He says that like it's a bad thing.

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