Spurlock's docu-series gets third season

He's tried to live on minimum wage and had himself thrown in jail, and now documentarian Morgan Spurlock will get a few more chances to see how the other half lives.

FX has picked up a third season of Spurlock's series "30 Days," in which he and other subjects live for a month in a way that's far outside their comfort zones. The show will go back into production in the spring; there's no word on a premiere date yet.

Spurlock, the director and subject of "Super Size Me," will take part in two of the experiments in the coming six-episode season. He and his fiancee spent one of the first season's installments working in minimum-wage jobs, and last season he spent time in a county jail.

"Everyone at the network is proud of the high level of quality of '30 Days,' which is the tentpole of FX's unscripted programming," says Eric Schrier, who oversees alternative programming at the network. "The producers did a terrific job last season and have some intriguing story ideas for the upcoming season."

FX isn't saying what those ideas are. Past episodes of the show have had a member of the Minutemen live with a family of illegal immigrants and followed an atheist as she lived with a family of evangelical Christians.

Spurlock executive produces the series with R.J. Cutler ("Black. White."), Ben Silverman ("The Office") and H.T. Owens.