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Monday 7 deceMber 2020
Pandemic casts inevitable shadow on final 'Shameless' season

By LYNN ELBER him?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Wells: He's a tragic char-
coronavirus outbreak that acter. He's all about lost
delayed the taping of potential, whether it be lost
"Shameless" is woven into potential to be the father
the 11th and final season that he should be, or to just
of the Gallagher saga. It be the human being that
seems inevitable, given the he should be. He's incred-
outsized share of hardships ibly narcissistic. He makes
the family has met and, me laugh, but I've always
sometimes, overcome. felt a tremendous amount
It also reflects executive of sadness for him.
producer John Wells' in- AP: Will Emmy Rossum, who
tention that the series give left after season nine, pay
full weight to the toll that a return visit as Fiona Gal-
poverty takes in ways big lagher?
and small — and to keep it Wells: I can tell you that I'd
darkly funny, even when a love to have Emmy come
pandemic barges in. back and she has ex-
Showtime's "Shameless" is pressed interest in coming
lead by William H. Macy as back. But she's the midst of
a shambling mess of a dad doing a series ('Angelyne,'
whose offspring reflect their William H. Macy portrays Frank Gallagher in a scene from "Shameless." The eleventh and final for the Peacock streaming
scattershot upbringing on season of the Showtime series premieres on Sunday. service) so it will really just
Chicago's South Side, but Associated Press depend on whether she's
with bravado and loyalty in available. She's a friend,
their favor. The season de- for clarity and length. tial workers, to do the kind us is affecting the Gallagh- and she's more than wel-
but is 9 p.m. EST Sunday. AP: 'Shameless' focus is on of jobs we don't think of ers and their extended fam- come.
Days away from taping people struggling econom- as being professional jobs. ily. We're playing a lot with AP: At this moment, the fi-
when COVID-19 slammed ically, something scripted And that's really been kind Mickey and Ian now being nale has yet to be written.
the door on most movie TV rarely depicts. Is that of the joy of doing the show married and realizing that's Do you foresee ending the
and TV production in the as important now as it was from the beginning, and hard. Carl's becoming a series in a way that you
spring, the series reworked when the show started? why I've always said I'd love police officer, and we're could chose to revisit this
already completed scripts Wells: We have a group to write this show forever, trying to do it comedically family?
to include the coronavirus' of people who are living because we're talking and dealing with issues of Wells: With this show, like
fallout on the Gallaghers close to the poverty line. about people and a family policing, and particularly we did on 'ER,' I want to
and their circle. And while we've all been that's trying to survive and urban policing. And we're feel like we just kind of walk
Wells, a veteran writer- impacted by the pandem- in the way that we don't dealing with the fact that away from the block. And
producer whose credits ic, this is a huge portion of get to see very often in our Frank's alcoholism is finally if we ever turned down
include "ER" and "The West our society that's been im- popular entertainment. really catching up to him, that street again, we'd run
Wing," spoke with The Asso- pacted much more signifi- AP: No spoilers, but can you and what that means for into these characters that
ciated Press recently about cantly than most, although give us a sense of what the the rest of the family. Who we love, and catch up to
what else the Gallaghers everyone's had the same final season will include? is ultimately responsible for see what they're doing. But
face this season, how their anxieties. We've got a lot Wells: We're going to keep Frank, when he has never there aren't any plans to do
story will end and whether of people out of work and telling the stories that we seemed to care that much more. But there's not go-
former cast member Emmy a lot of people who've had wanted to tell always, for them? ing to be a house fire that
Rossum will pop back in. to actually bear the brunt which is how what's going AP: After this long journey takes most of the family or
The interview was edited of going to work as essen- on in the world and around with Frank, how do you see anything.q

Netflix rejects calls to add disclaimer to The Crown

In a statement Saturday, ity weren't a major issue by Gillian Anderson. Brit-
Netflix said it has always during earlier seasons of ain's first female prime min-
presented the drama, as the show, which debuted ister, who died in 2013, is
just that — a drama. in 2016 and traces the long portrayed as clashing with
"We have always present- reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Olivia Colman's Elizabeth to
ed The Crown as a drama which began in 1952. an extent that some say is
— and we have every con- But the current fourth sea- exaggerated.q
fidence our members un- son is set in the 1980s, a Solution Sudoku
derstand it's a work of fic- divisive decade in Britain.
tion that's broadly based Characters include Con-
on historical events," it said. servative Prime Minister
"As a result we have no Margaret Thatcher, whose
plans — and see no need 11-year tenure transformed
— to add a disclaimer." and divided Britain, and the
A traditional double decker red bus with an advert for "The Netflix was urged last week late Princess Diana, whose
Crown" drives through central London, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. by British Culture Secretary death in a car crash in 1997
Associated Press Oliver Dowden to add the transfixed the nation and
disclaimer, in the wake of the world.
LONDON (AP) — Netflix stating that its lavish drama the broadcast of the dra- Some Conservatives have
has "no plans" to add a about Britain's royal family is ma's fourth series. criticized the program's de-
disclaimer to "The Crown" a work of fiction. Questions of historical fidel- piction of Thatcher, played Puzzle on Page 13