Showtime’s Shameless is coming back!
Showtime announced that William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, and the gang of kids will return for an eighth season in 2017. Production on the 12-episode season will begin in May, as Rossum announced last week. The news arrives a day after the season-seven finale that ended with a post-credits scene telling viewers to “come back next year.”
There is little surprise that the show was picked up after Rossum negotiated a new deal to return to the dramedy following a salary standoff in which she demanded equal pay with Macy to compensate for years of being paid less. Macy recently renegotiated his contract with producer Warner Bros. Television.