Showtime has greenlit dramedy “Shameless” for an eighth season, with 12 new episodes set to debut in fall 2017. Debuting on Jan. 9, 2011, the series depicts the dysfunctional damily of Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy), a single father of six children. While he spends his days drunk or in search of misadventures, his kids […]
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Showtime has opted against a fifth season of drama “Masters of Sex.” The now final episode on Sunday, Nov. 13 concluded with William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) tying the knot. Debuting on Sept. 29, 2013 and loosely based on Thomas Maier’s biography of the duo, the series explored the research and […]
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Showtime has opted against a second season of Cameron Crowe’s musical drama “Roadies,” which followed the behind-the-scenes crews that bring tours to life. The series, which starred Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino and Imogen Poots, concluded its 10-episode run with just over 500,000 viewers based on the Live+3 Day data from Nielsen on August 28. Writer […]
Showtime has ordered a new comedy pilot based on Frankie Shaw’s Sundance Film Festival Jury Award-winning short film “SMILF. Shaw will star, write, produce and direct the semi-autobiographical pilot, with Michael London (“Sideways”), and Emmy nominees Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (“The Office,” “Bad Teacher”) executive producing. The scoop: Set in Boston, “SMILF” will take […]
Showtime has greenlit a fifth season of scripted drama “Ray Donovan,” with an order for 12 additional episodes. Production on season five will begin next year. The scoop this season: Ray’s (Liev Schreiber) second chance at redemption is tested when he meets professional boxer Hector Campos (Ismael Cruz Cordova) and his volatile sister Marisol (Lisa […]
Ovation TV, the network dedicated to arts and cultural programs, has acquired distribution rights to all four seasons of drama “The Tudors,” which it its 2007 to 2010 run on Showtime produced 38 episodes. A chronicle of the early years in the reign of England’s King Henry VIII from 1520 to 1530, when he divorced […]
Showtime has opted against a fourth season of “Penny Dreadful.” The now final episode this past Sunday, titled “The Blessed Dark” and signing off with a title card reading, “The End,” saw Vanessa (Eva Green) voluntarily dying at Ethan’s (Josh Hartnett) hand in order to save the world. The plan all along, according to series […]
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Showtime has announced the pick-up of a limited series called “Purity,” which is based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Franzen. The logline: The book, published last September, centers on Pip, a young American woman who does not know who she is, and Andreas Wolf (Daniel Craig), a charismatic German provocateur. He […]
Showtime, at present, is offering the season three episode of psycho-thriller online before its official return on Showtime on Sunday, May 1. The third season premiere is available via YouTube, Facebook, Sho.com, iTunes, Amazon and Hulu, among other platforms. Debuting on May 11, 2014, the Victorian England-set “Penny Dreadful” draws upon many characters from 19th-century […]
