NEW YORK, NY — The Warehouse is open for business again! Picking up where it left off last year, Syfy's "Warehouse 13" second season premiere Tuesday. July 6 at 9PM (ET/PT) became the channel's most watched telecast of the year, snagging, bagging and tagging nearly three million (2.96) total viewers while leaping 13% in Adults 18-49 over the season one average.

During the telecast, Warehouse 13 delivered:

2.03 HH rating

2.961 million total viewers

1.576 million Adults 25-54

1.354 million Adults 18-49 - second-highest delivery in this demo for the series

820,000 Men 18-49 viewers, a series high in the demo.

In the July 6 premiere episode, Jaime Murray ("Dexter") joined the cast in a recurring role as H.G. Wells—whom Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) discover was actually a woman. As Wells says, "My brother George was the writer. I supplied the ideas, the research, the stories. He supplied the mustache."

H.G. Wells was way ahead of her time in 1890s England. In addition to her public duties, she was a Warehouse Agent apprenticed at Warehouse 12 in London. As the second season unfolds, Pete and Myka will discover how and why she was bronzed, why MacPherson (Roger Rees) de-bronzed her, and ultimately what Wells plans to do—and whose side she's on.

"Warehouse 13" follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and preternatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse's caretaker Artie (Rubinek) charges Agents Pete Lattimer (McClintock) and Myka Bering (Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the Warehouse itself. Allison Scagliotti plays Claudia, Artie's apprentice.

Season 2 features special crossover episodes when "Warehouse 13's" Allison Scagliotti visits the town of "Eureka" and Neil Grayston of "Eureka" visits "Warehouse 13." The programs will air on "Warehouse 13" Tuesday, August 3, and on "Eureka" Friday, August 6.

"Warehouse 13" season 2 guest stars include Lindsay Wagner ("Bionic Woman"), Jaime Murray ("Dexter"),Tia Carrere ("Wayne's World"), Jewel Staite and Sean Maher (both from "Firefly"), Neil Graystone ("Eureka"), Rene Auberjonois ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"), Paula Garces ("Defying Gravity"), David Anders ("Heroes," "24"), Faran Tahir ("Iron Man," "Star Trek"), Nolan Gerard Funk ("Aliens in America"), Philip Winchester ("Crusoe") and as well as WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes ("Friday Night SmackDown").

"Warehouse 13" is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions. Jack Kenny ("The Book of Daniel") is Executive Producer and Showrunner.