I find this very easy to believe.
If you think about it though, how often does a new character waltz onto the ninth season of a show, completely steal it, marginalize the regular characters that have been around for almost a decade and get his own spin-off? It would be like Monica Reyes getting her own show.

I heard that there are two seasons so far and that they're having a third one this year?
I believe so. I don't follow it, but any time I'm home on a Tuesday and tune in, it's like crack. They are so obviously manipulating the audience, and I can know that and still be taken in. It makes me feel like a bad, bad person but I enjoy it so much.