As Homeland Ends Next Season, Showtime Wants to Keep Shameless Going for Years

The network's programming budget will soon increase 'significantly'

Showtime isn’t a network that likes to say goodbye—to its shows or its subscribers—which it why it tries to keep its biggest hits continuing for as long as they can.

“When you’re talking about some of the best shows on television, shows that are growing in popularity over time, whose audiences are eagerly awaiting the return of their favorite characters, why exactly would we want them to end?” said Showtime Networks president and CEO David Nevins on Monday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour in Los Angeles.

While

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