"I Am Cait" Will Return For Second Season

Well color me surprised - E! has renewed the Caitlyn Jenner reality show I Am Cait for a second season.

I'm surprised mainly because after all the hype leading up to and through the premiere, I Am Cait failed to hold decent viewership.

With a July premiere, the show racked up a passable 2.7 million live-plus-same-day viewers, but that was the peak. The show's numbers dropped precipitously from there by more than half. The season finale notched 1.3 million viewers.

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Jenner came out as transgender to ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in late April after several years of speculation in the gossip press about her appearance. Then, on June 1, Vanity Fair featured Jenner on its cover with the headline, “Call Me Caitlyn.”

Though Jenner’s second act as a celebrity was as a Kardashian family member, I Am Cait struck a very different tone from Keeping Up With the Kardashians. There were scattered appearances from Kim Kardashian, Khloe Karsdashian, Kris Jenner, and Kylie Jenner, and some drama therein. But mostly, the show followed Jenner, 65, through her self-education about transgender issues. She surrounded herself with a group of trans women from whom she seemed to learn quite a bit, having lived in a bubble of celebrity and privilege since her time as an Olympic gold medal winner in 1976.