If you like VH1 programming, well, get ready for more of it. Many of our successful series, including Tool Academy and I Want To Work for Diddy, have been renewed for additional seasons and are set to return to air shortly. Peep the press release for full details (including your chance to try out for the second season of I Want To Work for Diddy):

On the heels of another viewership milestone, VH1 has ordered additional seasons for six hit series including: I Want To Work For Diddy (season 2), Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew (season 3), Brooke Knows Best (season 2), Gotti’s Way (season 2), and Tool Academy (season 2).

In addition, VH1’s own Tiffany “New York” Pollard is set to star in a new show on the channel with New York Goes To Work, where she will have to learn a new job skill each week.  VH1 has also greenlit a spin-off of Celebrity Rehab that will venture into the rarely talked about world of sexual addiction in Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew.

The renewals and greenlights arrive as the number of successful VH1 series continue to grow. Rock Of Love Bus with Bret Michaels and I Love Money 2 drew huge audiences in first quarter, averaging at least 1 million total viewers in their premiere episodes. New VH1 shows Tool Academy, VH1 Tough Love, For The Love of Ray J and Sober House all averaged at least 1 million total viewers as well in their premiere episodes throughout this past first quarter. Based on that definition, VH1 has debuted more new hit series than any other cable network so far this year.

“VH1 is riding high on its most successful wave of original hit programming yet.  We launched more new hit series than any other cable network in the first quarter of 2009,” said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming & Production, VH1. “Much of our momentum can be credited to many of the franchises and talent that we’re renewing today.  These upcoming projects will continue to set the mark for reality television while connecting with some of the most loyal viewers in all of television.”

VH1 series renewals and new projects include:

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In the clip above from last night’s Tool Academy reunion (best VH1 reunion show ever?!), a lie-detector test led to a full-on backstage blow-out between Krista and Tommy. The contention stemmed not from anything that happened on air, but online: specifically from a comment left on this blog. Under the Episode 5 recap, someone left this comment:

I feel so bad for Krista. I hooked up with Tommy when he hit on me at the bar he worked at. We were both really drunk when it happened, normally I don’t hook up with a guy who has a girlfriend but he talked so much $_@_*%@_`!~$(@!* on her about how he knows she is not the one for him but he is in a tough position and needs to get on his own feet. She is totally fooled by his charm. I apologize for my part.

While the fight this comment led to seemed particularly savage, we couldn’t help but be flattered to have contributed to the reality of reality TV. More of the work we helped facilitate is below in the form of an extended take on their backstage bicker-and-slapfest.

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Catch a preview of the Tool Academy class reunion to find out who’s still together, who isn’t and tune in Sunday night to find out who’s having a baby and who flips out!

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Have you been getting your daily dose of “Moron in the Morning”? No, no one has, VH1’s Free Radio has been off the air for the bulk of 2008. But it’s coming back. The VH1 show’s second season premieres on Thursday, April 2. That’s when you’ll again connect with professional nimrod Lance the DJ and long-suffering sidekick Anna.

The improvised comedy connects the cluckish side of “celebrity, mediocrity, and talk radio,” pulling back the curtain on the dynamics of the studio, and revealing a “glorious train wreck of botched celebrity interviews, on-air tantrums and generally lovable buffoonery.”

What kind of buffoonery? Check the clip above, where the two jocks have a sexy encounter with Tool Academy’s studtastic Matsu-Flex.

Watch the full episode of last season’s finale (with Penn & Teller) after the jump.

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Whoa! Who saw this coming?

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Tool Academy’s resident therapist Trina Dolenz has spent the last several weeks answering questions from the show’s fans. This is her final column on VH1.com, but be sure to visit her on her own Website.

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Hi Trina, I would like to start out by letting you know I have recorded and watched all the shows since they began. My boyfriend of course thought it was stupid, and the show was putting thoughts in my head that he was a bad boyfriend. I have been with him going on 2 years, and we both have no idea where we honestly failed. To sum up all of our problems he thinks he is right and I think I am right.

For the first year and half of our relationship, we were great! Our friends envied us, and we were unbreakable. Yes, we did fight and have normal problems like every relationship, but we always worked through them. Then I got a job. My boss would take me and the other secretaries to lunch every day. My boyfriend did not like this, he did tell me several times, but I think I was just so caught up with our relationship being unbreakable that I did not listen to him when he was pretty much screaming to me that I was hurting him. Then we went on vacation for my 21st birthday; it was the worst vacation I have ever been on. We pretty much fought the whole vacation. A few weeks later we got in a huge fight where he said the worst things possible to me, things I did not know he even thought of about me. I was devastated, and he broke up with me that night. I did not want to stay at my house and cry myself to sleep; none of my friends were home or picked up when I called. Then my boss called me and asked if I wanted to come to his house, I went there and got extremely drunk and puked my guts out, so I had to spend the night there on his couch.

This mistake has destroyed my relationship because I do not know why but my boyfriend cannot let go of this mistake. He constantly brings it up and shoves it in my face. We have also had a lot more problems since then, and he has done some almost unforgivable mistakes to me, but I took him back. We agreed to work on things, but he is so angry and now I think I have made him crazy. I love him so much, but it is to the point now where I just can’t handle his insane, crazy, outbursts. Sometimes he will get mad at me for one thing, and then yell at me for my mistakes and we end up yelling about the mistakes all over again. I have screwed up, but he has done so many horrible things to me that I am to the point in our relationship that I feel that I should let him go because I just mentally cannot take it anymore.

A big difference between me and him is that I am a calm person and he is a loud person, and I feel he dwells on issues that should be let go. For some reason I just can’t bring up his mistakes to him or be stuck on them the way he has about mine. For the fact I did take him back, I forgave him and love him enough to not make him feel bad over and over for what he has done. He tells me he is sorry and it won’t happen again, but it ends up happening within a couple of days. So my question is, is it possible when somebody in a relationship makes a mistake to forgive them and let go and if you don’t, what then? He tells me he can let go, but his anger says something different. He calls me every name in the book, and I’m to the point now where I’m so use to it that my friends think I’m crazy for being with him and he treats me like crap. I guess my real question is, is it possible for us to workout our problems and be the couple we used to be? I would do anything to be that couple again. I cannot express to you how appreciative I am that you would take out your time to read this. I am in desperate need for your HELP! Thank you so much again, TH.

Dear TH, It’s such a shame that your relationship has broken down, after such a good start.  You say that you have no idea where you failed, but I think you do. You describe that your lunch visits with your boss upset your boyfriend to the point that he was pretty much screaming to you that you were hurting him, you ignored him and this is where your unbreakable relationship broke. All relationships are fragile; they need care and attention to survive and to grow. This is a classic example of where they can start to go wrong. Many women do not listen to their man’s needs because, maybe, they are unfair, unrealistic, untrusting, constraining, or just not right. But it is very dangerous to ignore a partner’s fears, needs, and requests, and this is often where men start to cheat or withdraw. I am not saying you must give in, but rather that his fears must be understood and included in the relationship so that you face the world as a united couple.

He obviously has not forgiven you and his anger is showing that he is still hurt.  Start your explorations with him around his pain and fears from the past and stay open and available to him so that he can try to truly get over the hurt he is still harboring, so that he can catch up with you and be able to move forward again with the relationship. Good luck, Trina.

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Here come the reality TV newlyweds! Tool Academy was an eight-week journey to self-discovery for both Josh and Ashley and even though he was the one who was “enrolled,” they’ve both emerged winners. Below, we talk to the couple about married life, airing their dirty laundry on television, how they apply the lessons learned in Tool Academy to their daily lives and what they plan to do with the $100,000 prize money.

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Catch a sneak peek of the season finale of Tool Academy!

Hit the comments field. Which Tool will take home the cred and the cash Sunday night?

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Tool Academy’s resident therapist Trina Dolenz isn’t only helping the couples on the show. Each week she answers relationship questions from VH1.com users as well. Got a problem with your significant other? Is your partner a tool? Write in and tell Dolenz the one thing that most irritates you about your mate. She can help. Write her at toolacademy@gmail.com. Your note may just be one of those answered.

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Dear Trina,  My name is KB and I am a 16-year-old boyfriend. My girlfriend and I have been dating for 9 months now, which makes me extremely happy, yet I have concerns in the back of my mind. I am unsure if I am being paranoid or not, but sometimes I feel that I am being a “tool” by some things I do. For instance I masturbated to a porn video a couple times before and I try not to check out other girls or think about them yet I can’t help but do. Also my girlfriend and I can argue sometimes about little things that bother her (repeating herself when I can’t hear her, having other girls’ numbers on my phone and they’re just acquaintances, her thinking I might be cheating behind her back, her thinking I’m into her sisters more than her, and me sometimes forgetting things she tells me).

Her best friend, who hates me a whole lot because of our past arguments, tries to tell her to leave me and find a “better” guy than me and attempted to hook her up with someone else. My girlfriend also jokes around in a way that is inappropriate yet she tells me she’s only kidding and that she loves me. Like when we talk, she can sometimes call me a jerk or a bad boyfriend because I’m not with her or insults the size of my “package.” She also jokes inappropriately by calling me homosexual and can be a hypocrite at times as well (I too need to repeat myself when she can’t hear me and she too forgets things I tell her sometimes.) I really am in love with my girlfriend and I do feel so deeply for her, but I’m afraid of being a tool because of the things I’ve done. I have changed myself for the better and I have been away from checking out other girls and viewing porno, yet at a certain point I fall and climb back up the mountain again, and I don’t want that happening anymore. I want to stay at the very top and be that “knight in shining armor.” I just feel so ashamed I’ve done those things and I want to rid of them for good.

I haven’t told her any of this because we’ve already been through so many “ups & downs” and it’s getting to the point where I might lose her, and I don’t want to cause I love her so much. Plus the arguments we have sometimes makes me think if she’s really the one for me or not. We sometimes talk about us in the future and getting married cause we’re that deeply in love with each other, yet with these hardships it’s not a guarantee. I know we’re too young to talk or think about it, but I can’t help but talk or think about it cause I’m in love with her. Even though she jokes around in the wrong way and she misunderstands things, I can see she’s strongly in love with me too because I can feel it and see it. Plus she tells me her best friend is only watching out for her and that she won’t follow her advice because she loves me, but it still frightens me cause I think sometimes what her best friend might do next. I don’t know if I am a tool or not and I am unsure what to do about any of this, please help me Trina - KB

Thank you for your letter, KB. You have brought up a common problem between couples and that is porn! It is quite normal and usual for partners to look at porn even when they are in a satisfying, loving, sexual relationship.  Men do it much more than women, and some partners do it together.  It is not something that needs to be regarded as “wrong,” as long as both of you are happy about the content and frequency.  It is also quite normal and usual for partners to masturbate while in a “good” relationship.  It is the ultimate “quickie.”  It would be useful for you to talk openly with your girlfriend about your interest in porn and masturbating, so that she does not feel it as a secret and confuse it with the outside world, leading her to not trust you.  It does sound as if your girlfriend is the tool and not you though; it is extremely unkind of her to joke about your package and sexuality, using her girlfriend as her parent, although I realize you are both very young and are coping with some very mature issues, perhaps before they are fully understood. I think it is important for you to stand up for yourself and not be verbally abused by your girlfriend.  It is not a pattern you will want to keep repeating, so move on to a sweeter girl who appreciates all of you and understands a little more about men. - Trina

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You know what else are pigs?

Actual pigs!

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Tool Academy’s resident therapist Trina Dolenz isn’t only helping the couples on the show. Each week she answers relationship questions from VH1.com users as well. Got a problem with your significant other? Is your partner a tool? Write in and tell Dolenz the one thing that most irritates you about your mate. She can help. Write her at toolacademy@gmail.com. Your note may just be one of those answered.

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Hi Trina, I have faithfully been watching Tool Academy since the series began and it has become my new favorite show. I feel for the girls and understand what they are going through; I live it every day. My boyfriend and I are going on 4 years now and I love him like he’s my other half, but I feel that I may not be strong enough to stay in a relationship like ours anymore. I’m going to tell you my story in hopes that you can help us because I’m worried that no one can and the end for us is coming near.

My boyfriend’s name is Jared, he is 23 and I am 20. Jared is 6′4 weighs about 230, buff and is the “tall dark and hansome” type. But he has issues with keeping jobs and treating me like a dog. He enjoys going to the bar and never calling me, since I’m not 21 and can’t go out with him, he rather go out by himself and party with his “friends.” I have always kept a steady job and took care of him and yet I’m the only one that gets treated like I’m the one that made his life so hard. I’m here for him no matter what, what he does what he says, everything.

The names he calls me are so degrading and disrespectful all I can do is cry. I don’t want to say mean things back to him because that just makes things worse. I try to ignore it so that the situation doesn’t get out of hand. He cheated numerous times but accuses me of always cheating.

There are so many small details of course and I would like the opportunity to sit with you and talk to you about the unhealthy relationship that we are in. As I said before, I am a loyal fan of the show and I do sincerely believe that myself and Jared are the same type of couple that you have on the show, we meet the criteria 100%.
Thank you for talking the time to read my letter and I hope to here from you soon. – CF

Hi CF,
Oh dear, your relationship does sound as if it is in a lot of trouble! One of the things you may have noticed on the show is that the girls have been waiting around hoping for some sort of change, receiving bad behavior from their boyfriends, but still “being there” for them at the same time. What you are really doing is being a substitute mother for your “adolescent” boyfriend, disapproving, but allowing him to continue disrespecting you.

It will be very important for you, especially as you are so young, to concentrate on yourself, what you want out of life and stop acting like a middle-aged housewife! Sometimes it is hard to discern between love and attachment, but when a relationship is as yours is described, it is usually a strong need to find yourself in the other that is keeping you together, rather than a healthy love.

Maybe I will see you in the next series!  - Trina