Showtime has recently renewed their reality series The Real L Word for a third season. The network has ordered another run of nine episodes and will continue to follow the lives of lesbians living in Los Angeles.

The new season of The Real L Word will also focus on several women living in New York City.

“We’re excited and gratified to be picking up the stories of our most beloved season two cast members at some truly major and life-altering junctures,” Ilene Chaiken confirmed to Entertainment Weekly. One of the returning characters is Whitney, of course.

“We [also] think it’s time to throw down and invite the women of New York to join in and demonstrate the claims they’ve lobbied at us these past few years, that New York’s women have something more to say about lesbian life, something that isn’t being said by our Los Angeles ladies.”

As Ilene put it, “Bring it on, Brooklyn!”

The Real L Word is expected to return on Showtime in early 2012.