News brief: Showtime’s Californication dream over

By TBI reporter
10th December 2013 @ 10:52

US cable channel Showtime will end its comic drama Californication after its upcoming seventh season.

The show has steadily improved its ratings since launching in 2007 but CBS-owned Showtime has decided to cancel it.

Californication follows David Duchovny (The X Files) as a sex-obsessed Hollywood writer. It comes from CBS’s Showtime Networks unit.

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