Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen executive producer John Wells was working on the final season of “The West Wing” in 2006 he recalls having a very “easy” end point because the show began with the first year of Jed Bartlett’s presidential administration and, seven years later, it would be poetic to end with him leaving the office and a new president (Matt Santos) sworn in.
Now that Wells is saying goodbye to another long-running, beloved series in Showtime’s “Shameless,” though, things are far more complicated.“With this, we’re just following people’s lives,” Wells tells Variety of the Gallagher family on the Showtime dramedy.
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