Jada Pinkett Smith's popular medical drama Hawthorne has been picked up for a second season run. According to Variety, TNT has placed an order for ten more episodes of the series.

Season two will return to TNT next summer. Hawthorne stars Pinkett Smith as a dedicated chief nurse at a busy hospital who must juggle her stressful professional life with her role as single mother to a teenage daughter. Premiering in June of this year, the show has become quite the hit with viewers in its Tuesday at 9 pm time slot.

You can expect to see the further adventures of Nurse Hawthorne when the series returns to TNT in June of 2010.